Tagged: tactics

March 17, 2014 @ 5:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Taking place on April 1st in New York City, Alex Feldman, CEO and founder of Crowdsunite, has organized a session to train individuals on how to operate a rewards based crowdfunding campaign.  The event is titled Reward Crowdfunding:  Everything You Need to Know for Success,… Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 9:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding entrepreneurs may now have a new way to streamline outreach and improve the effectiveness of their crowdfunding campaigns. Velocity Kick, a new service that made its debut at the 2014 LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco, wants to dramatically reduce the time spent organizing contacts… Read More

March 4, 2014 @ 1:28 pm By Lionel Slusny  |  

Crowdfunding, we all know, is a very powerful tool to validate a business opportunity within a specific product application. As discussed in previous articles on the Startup Europe – Crowdfunding Network  site, we have seen that crowdfunding is particularly suited for web entrepreneurs who wish… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 8:08 am By Fiona Swan  |  

Editor’s Note:  Sian’s Plan is raising £100,000 on Seedrs representing 12.5% equity in the startup.  Fiona Swan is the COO of the company.  The Belfast based company supports healthy eating for busy families with their online tools.  Sian has already completed a first round of… Read More

February 4, 2014 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Courtesy of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin hands out some brief, practical advice on crowdfunding.  In this short video Slava continues on the theme of democratizing funding where anyone and anybody may find funding for projects  of merit, “fixing a massive… Read More

February 1, 2014 @ 6:56 am By JD Alois  |  

TGC Continues with Self-Hosted Pretail Funding. Coming from The Game Creators (TGC), a privately owned UK company, FPS Creator Reloaded (FPSC Reloaded) has announced their beta launch of Oculus Rift integration.  The game development tools studio sees integration as an important strategic move as part… Read More

January 23, 2014 @ 3:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Team Kickstarter has updated their back end functionality to allow crowdfunders the ability to generate targeted updates. With over 600,000 updates having been posted from the over 130,00o projects launched (and that number is growing by the second), the campaign communication tools are vital to… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 6:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo hosted a first of a series of training sessions today using Google Hangouts.  John Trigonis, Indiegogo’s film specialist, guided this Hangout which featured Adam Poswolsky who crowdfunded Featuring Adam Poswolsky, a crowdfunder who raised funds for Quarter Life Breakthrough a book for millennials about his quarter-life… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 8:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo has scheduled a series of Google Hangouts focusing on crowdfunding campaign tips.  Today’s Hangout, which takes place at 11AM PST (2PM EST) will be hosted by John Trigonis the Indiegogo team Film expert.  Each 45 Minute session will be followed by Q&A so ask… Read More

November 9, 2013 @ 10:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo recently hosted a Hardware Bootcamp for crowdfunders looking to raise funds for their manufactured product.  Production and operations management is really, really hard.  Even if you have a solid background in operations and tons of experience organizing a supply chain it is a lot… Read More

October 29, 2013 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

ProHatch, a strategic crowdfunding and consulting ecosystem for both donations based and rewards based crowdfunding, has released a new suite of Business and Crowdfunding Advisory Services. ProHatch’s Advisory Services team specialize in transforming commercial and social value into sustainable & investable opportunity. “While Crowdfunding and the… Read More

September 24, 2013 @ 2:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Front Up Rugby, a rugby inspired fashion label for men, has grown into one of the United Kingdom’s leading and most respected clothing brands.  The company was started in 2008 by entrepreneur Jon Allen who saw a gap in the market for a youthful and fashionable rugby… Read More

September 23, 2013 @ 3:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

The below infographic comes from Staff.com which is a global employment site that connects companies with remote staff.  Catering mainly to US, Canada, Australia and UK markets – they decided to put together some estimates on what it costs to begin a small business in… Read More

September 21, 2013 @ 8:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Update: Since publishing, KIND* Shave Oil has changed its name to TICO* Shave Oil, and can now be found at www.ticoshaving.com. This past Wednesday KIND Shave Oil ended their crowdfunding campaign having beat their $15,000 goal.  KIND had decided to go the self-crowdfunding path as we… Read More

September 19, 2013 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

The book ” Equity Crowdfunding: Transforming Customers into Loyal Owners by author Jonathan Frutkin, has been released as an audio book. Frutkin, a principle in the Phoenix, Arizona based Frutkin Law Firm, provides insight into how business owners can turn their customers into loyal customers… Read More

August 28, 2013 @ 11:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Update: Since publishing, KIND* Shave Oil has changed its name to TICO* Shave Oil, and can now be found at www.ticoshaving.com. KIND shave oil is crowdfunding an alternative to shaving cream.  Shaving is not something I have ever looked forward to doing.  But then I happened to… Read More

August 25, 2013 @ 3:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Tile locator device successfully crowdfunded $2,681,297 using the self crowdfunding application “SelfStarter” becoming the most successfully self crowdfunded campaign ever. The crowdfunding campaign not only raised more than enough funds to fulfill the financing needs of the company but indicated a growing market interest… Read More

August 20, 2013 @ 7:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Titled “Navigating Your Portal Launch” the document has been published with both securities professionals and entrepreneurs in mind.  The book is available for download for free – providing you offer up your contact information ($4.99 for the anonymous types). Authored by CommunityLeader CEO Joseph Barisonzi,… Read More

August 15, 2013 @ 12:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Successful equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has shared a guide on Angel investing in partnership with What Investment magazine.  The document features an introduction from Doug Richard who was one of the original “Dragons” on the BBC show “Dragons Den”.  Richard now works with entrepreneurs by… Read More

July 14, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, one of the leading equity crowdfunding platforms in the United Kingdom, recently updated their instructions for companies applying to leverage their crowdfunding site.  Expressing the knowledged gained via their recent experience regarding their successful crowdfunding efforts, Seedrs has tuned their approach. In a posting… Read More