This video is an excellent brief explanation of funding rounds for any budding entrepreneur or student of finance. This is courtesy of OnlineMBA.com. Whether you are an entrepreneur trying to get things moving with a startup company or just interested in learning more about business in general, OnlineMBA.com‘s video on How to Fund a Startup is… Read More
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Zach Braff took an opportunity to address his critics and wax poetic on the larger crowdfunding space during a 17 minute interview with the team behind Kickstarted. Kickstarted is a documentary on crowdfunding currently being prepared for a Kickstarter campaign itself. Of note is Braff’s assertion that the launch day of his campaign for “Wish… Read More
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Yesterday Dominic Green and William Wei of Business Insider posted a video of the BI team meandering around New York City asking people whether they knew what Kickstarter was. The responses are really interesting and present an ironic microcosm of the entire narrative surrounding the world’s largest crowdfunding web site. Watch below…
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ProHatch recently held what is rumored to be an extremely successful crowdfunding incubator, and they have made the videos from the training sessions available to the public. Guest speakers include Sara Hanks from CrowdCheck, Domenick Celentano from Foodpreneur, and Joy Schoffler and Jillian Pedersen from Leverage PR. Watch below. Session I: ProHatch’s Online Crowdfunding Incubator… Read More
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Small companies raising funds from everyday people started off in the U.S. But crowdfunding has begun to take off in the U.K. Dow Jones’s Art Patnaude has been looking at this new alternative to scarce bank loans.
In this video former AOL CEO Steve Case discusses the future of crowdfunding and its effect on venture capital with JJ Colao of Forbes. He also expresses some optimism regarding the SEC’s timeline. Watch below…
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This is an excellent 6-7 minute primer on crowdfunding. Watch below… hat tip to Greater Louisville Inc. Bill Dawson – EnterpriseCorp Crowdfunding from Greater Louisville Inc. on Vimeo.
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In advance of my “crowdfunding speed consulting” session with the film students I talked about in my previous post, I did a bit of homework hoping to help students work through an issue they encountered: How do you make a great video pitch about your film without giving your plot away? I found two great spoiler-free examples on Indiegogo of… Read More
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Filmmakers / Actors Etta Devine and Gabriel Diani (The Selling) agree that most people think crowdfunding is going to be easy. That by simply launching your campaign, backers from all over the world are going to pour in. They tell us crowdfunding is a full-time job. They reveal the majority of their pledges have come… Read More
An essential part of any crowdfunding campaign is the video. According to Kickstarter, 50% of projects with a video succeed, versus 30% success for projects without a video. Videos will make, or break, your project no matter if you’re funding a feature film, revolutionary toilet paper or a new iPhone accessory gizmo. Below are 5 common mistakes… Read More
Jonathan Sandlund sits down with Lasse Makelah, CEO of Invesdor, to discuss the equity crowdfunding platform. You can find stats from the talk on The Crowd Cafe.
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A round-up of the top successful crowdfunding videos of 2012 offers some insight on what to do to get the cash. With 2013 expected to be the year of crowdfunding (at least according to our own Brian Jackson), more and more entrepreneurs will likely be turning to this innovative funding model in the year ahead…. Read More
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