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Re: INTERVIEW: How a Canadian Athlete Used IndieGogo to Crowdfund Her Training

Thrillpledge.com — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:13:13 -0000

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Re: 36 Kickstarter Tips for Filmmakers

Postwoman Movie — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:09:38 -0000

Don't forget to add this one:

"11 Tips Before Launching Your Crowdfunding Campaign": http://postwomanmovie.tumbl...

By,
Me. :-)
JD Walker, Writer/Director
The Postwoman Movie
http://www.thepostwomanmovi...
Also on twitter: http://twitter.com/Postwoma...

*Archived your wonderful list. Thanks! :)

Re: What’s The Difference Between Crowdfunding in Europe vs. the US?

Justin Kownacki — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:04:46 -0000

Excellent points, especially about the different sociological value ascribed to "giving" among various cultures. No wonder the European models emphasize "investment" rather than "support." (And given the recent financial struggles of the European Union, the altruistic crowdfunding initiatives might have even more of an uphill fight if accountability is perceived to be lacking.)

Re: What’s The Difference Between Crowdfunding in Europe vs. the US?

Axel S. — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:59:08 -0000

We are researching crowd funding in the US versus Europe right now and see the following situation in short:

1) KKBB has a huge advantage over Kickstarter and Indigogo because of their ability to provide an ROI to investors. The US is working on new models and give the US crowd funding companies the same advantage.

2) The EU market with over 300 Million and the European Market with 500 Million is equal or bigger to the US market so that should be no advantage or disadvantage.

3) The single biggest disadvantage for crowd funding in Europe is the European spending culture. Giving and donating is deeply ingrained in the US culture. There are more charity parties in the US than any other fun and drink party. On the other side in Europe people point to the government if anybody is in need for anything. "Giving" is a very rare commodity in Europe - and "giving" is the foundation of crowd funding.

4) Technology wise European platforms are always a bit more complicated, less easy to navigate more clicks to get to the same information and so forth. European software is in particular almost always over engineered and highly restrictive "You have to do this, before I show you that" "You need to do this before I 'allow' you to do that" This is not a knock out criteria but certainly a disadvantage and KKBB is in that category too - the name alone makes it hard to remember, type, search...

I hope this will change - let's make a change :)

Re: 7 Reasons Why Crowdfunding Projects Fail

Justin Kownacki — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:37:42 -0000

Thanks for the invitation. If I think of anything that might work well for your audience, I'll drop you a line. Cheers.

Re: 7 Reasons Why Crowdfunding Projects Fail

Duncan Knox — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:34:55 -0000

Thanks, Justin. Will do. If you'd be interested we'd love to have you as a guest blogger. We launched 3 weeks ago specifically for the student sector so we're trying to introduce the crowdfunding concept to them. There are some teething problems and your style of writing would be great for them!

Duncan

Re: 7 Reasons Why Crowdfunding Projects Fail

Justin Kownacki — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:01:35 -0000

Sure, Duncan. Please credit and link back to our original source. Thanks!

Re: 7 Reasons Why Crowdfunding Projects Fail

Duncan Knox — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:17:48 -0000

Hi Justin, I'd also like to feature this article on Sponsorcraft's blog in the UK:
http://blog.sponsorcraft.com/

Would this be OK? Thanks,

@duncanknox

Re: What’s The Difference Between Crowdfunding in Europe vs. the US?

Benjamin Larralde — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:35:13 -0000

I've written about this very same topic: http://www.crowdsourcing.or....
As for KKBB allowing a return on investment, I think that was their original model but they've pivoted some time ago to follow the general movement of donations for rewards.

Re: What’s The Difference Between Crowdfunding in Europe vs. the US?

Runtington — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:38:54 -0000

The userbase size is a big factor as you identified. Although if you look at the population using the Euro currency rather than individual countries it encompasses 331,962,860 people (2011)! The population of the USA is 312,967,000. Perception begins to shift when you look at it differently. Fondomat has launched its Euro currency version at http://www.fondomat.eu - it's worth keeping an eye on.

Re: 7 Reasons Why Crowdfunding Projects Fail

Justin Kownacki — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:15:50 -0000

Nicolas: yes, if you want to translate this post into French, you are welcome to do that. Please credit this blog as the source, and include a link to the original post in your own version, so any multilingual readers can continue their exploration of the topic here. Cheers.

Re: 7 Reasons Why Crowdfunding Projects Fail

Nicolas dehorter — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:57:05 -0000

Hello,
I'm specialist of crowdfunding in france. I want to share your post on my blog if I CAN

I translate for a public french

my blog monartisteleblog.fr

Re: Why Losing at Kickstarter Doesn’t Mean You Won’t Still Win in the End

Zaki — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:32:19 -0000

Hi, thanks for the new post above.

Is there anyway I can email you in person to discuss crowdfunding?

Re: Film Threat Narrows Its Crowdfunding Focus

Josh Martin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:44:23 -0000

Mark Bell was supposed to relaunch the paper quarterly in September of 2011. Four months past this deadline Mark has been silent about the issue.

So, all the original questions are now proven to be true. And, Mark Bell is exposed for the fraudster he is.

Mark, I'm calling you out. You knew you couldn't relaunch the magazine with 5 grand but you took the money anyways. You're a fraud. You've ruined the reputation of Film Threat forever. You need to return all the money now and apologize, Mark.

Re: What’s The Difference Between Crowdfunding in Europe vs. the US?

Gpanders — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:03:59 -0000

I see you're thinking about crowdfunding in the terms of a Kickstarter model, but you're really ignoring the European crowdfunding sties like VentureBonsai.com or CrowdCube that focus on selling private equity shares in companies rather than gifting logo t-shirts or stickers. The gifting model is obviously a tremendous resource for creative projects, but I think equity-crowdfunding has a much greater potential for funding technology and web services.

Re: The Tips That Helped One Kickstarter Project Raise $20K in 2 Days

Farshid Palad — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 02:08:37 -0000

Hello,

Great respect for your project and I am super happy your project got funded at least for the first goal. Keep up the good work, you guys are an awesome team.

Congrats and heres to a brighter future.

Re: INTERVIEW: How a Canadian Athlete Used IndieGogo to Crowdfund Her Training

Tarik Chrigui — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 03:31:56 -0000

nice article, i was keeping an eye on this project since it was started, i think Crowdfunding will need sometime to extend its wings to successfully support sports, technology and other categories.

I am the founder and CEO of scooterr.com a new social crowdfunding website. we are taking a different step towards crowdfunding using Social networking base, to help Contributors engage more in projects and conversations.

Re: 36 Kickstarter Tips for Filmmakers

Justin Kownacki — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:20:21 -0000

No problem. Thanks for addressing that surly stage of the
crowdfunding process that looms darkest overhead. ;)

Re: 36 Kickstarter Tips for Filmmakers

Dave Charest — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:59:36 -0000

Thanks for including my post here Justin.

Re: What’s The Difference Between Crowdfunding in Europe vs. the US?

Justin Kownacki — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:44:26 -0000

Vincent: In one of the links above, it states, "Kisskissbankbank are
promising funders a 23.6% share of profits." Is that no longer true?

Re: What’s The Difference Between Crowdfunding in Europe vs. the US?

Vincent Ricordeau — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:29:50 -0000

Kisskissbankbank don't give financial return to his KissBankers !

Re: Film Threat Narrows Its Crowdfunding Focus

Baxter — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:36:10 -0000

As a Film Threat writer, I disagree that a small compensation is more insulting than no money at all. Mark has made it clear that he would pay us more if he could. The fact that he is even offering any compensation at all instead of EXPECTING us to work for free for him forever shows a HUGE amount of respect to us, in my opinion. For some of us (myself included), writing is what we do/want to do for a living. We have to take jobs that aren't very fun to supplement the ones that are. Film Threat could be a gateway to a more lucrative job in the same field, an eventual source for a livable wage or just a fun thing I do on the side for as long as possible. No matter what the outcome, I want to keep working for Mark because he is respectful, generous and supportive as hell. Besides, if I were one to scoff at $5, I would have told my grandma as much years ago.

Re: Film Threat Narrows Its Crowdfunding Focus

Film Threat — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:20:32 -0000

Honestly, Brian, I'm done with the conversation. You've got a beef, and it doesn't matter what I say, you're going to try and pick it apart and, again, to what end? Why? Moving on...

Re: Film Threat Narrows Its Crowdfunding Focus

Brian White — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:22:52 -0000

"Many of the KS backers have moved their pledges to IGG." That's what you wrote, Mark. I've seen you do this before. You make an argument and when someone disputes it you pretend they didn't understand what you said.

Re: Film Threat Narrows Its Crowdfunding Focus

Film Threat — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:53:39 -0000

I spoke of page views and referrals, not backers. Here's the numbers: http://www.filmthreat.com/b...

Why are you looking so hard to discredit me? You compared donor lists? Why take the time?