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Crowdfunding Workshop
Nick NM Yap | CEO & Founder ROCKI Crowdsourcing Week Global | Singapore 10 April 2014
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From Every Phone, To All Speakers, For Everyone. ROCKI. FREE YOUR MUSIC.
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How to Raise a Million?
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61 Projects Raised a Million
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61 Projects Raised Over a Million Total 136,367 Projects
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61 Projects Raised Over a Million Total 136,367 Projects
0.04%
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1213 Projects Raised Over $100K Total 136,367 Projects
0.9%
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59,439 Projects Successful (43.6%) Total 136,367 Projects
$1,058,366,405
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How to Raise a Million?
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How to Raise a Million? DON’T THINK ABOUT THE MILLION
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You know this cliche DON’T THINK ABOUT PINK ELEPHANT
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Crowd
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Build a Crowd
Where are they? What are they doing? Engage each group - eg. Android fanatics, iOS fans, developers etc - each group is a mini-crowd. Then finally connect the mini-crowds into a Crowd - your project Crowd.
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Build a Crowd Dispersed individuals is NOT a Crowd
Birds of a feather flock together
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Build a Crowd You can’t have a successful Crowd-funding without a Crowd
Where are they? What are they doing? Engage each group - eg. Android fanatics, iOS fans, developers etc - each group is a mini-crowd. Then finally connect the mini-crowds into a Crowd - your project Crowd.
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You don’t build a business You build people and then People build the Business
… Team, Users, Friends, Friends of Friends, Journalists, Investors ...
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Target-rich environment You have to know people in order to know people
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Target-rich environment You have to know people in order to know people
- Dr. Phil -
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Start Early Social Media at least a month before. Tell everyone. Don’t be shy.
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What if someone steals my idea? Threat vs Opportunity Plan to compete from Day #1 Be faster, better and cheaper Tell Everyone, not Everything Phase your public info release
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Traditional Pitching
Broadcast Top-down
Crowd Networking Build from Bottom-up
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Value Proposition Win-Win We Mentality
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What type of products raise Million(s)? Celebrity, ex-Fortune500 executives, Games, Smartwatches, 3D printing
Neil Young’s Pogo music player raised >5 million dollars
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Celebrity
Gaming
Smartwatch
3D Printing
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XX% of >$1m Projects are Games
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Have a Good Product How will the product impact people?
Is it going to change an industry? Is it going to change habits? Will it disrupt a status quo? Is the underdog going to dethrone some incumbent?
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How to Have a Good Product? Crowdsourcing Listen, Engage, Curate & Implement
It should be an ongoing process during the entire campaign Even the entire life of the product The Product gets personified Becomes an extra dimension of an Engager
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How to Have a Good Product? The Micro-Product Manager
Here at Crowdsourcing Week, we’ve seen the Micro-Entrepreneur, the Micro-Journalist, Micro-Producer … Everyone is a Producer. You can be who you want to be.
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4000+ Product Managers 30-day x 24/7 Meeting
More Memory
Rounder
It should have wings
I second that
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Numbers Time Know Your Pledge-Reward Value Know Your Funding Goal Aim to Fund within 3 Days What size of a Team do you need?
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New York San Francisco L.A. / San Diego Miami Netherlands UK Germany Singapore Shenzhen (China) Shanghai (China) Taiwan South Korea
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Media Exposure Online most effective, 1.5 days effect
Huge difference between a media day and non-media day. It’s almost a full-time obsession to chase for media exposure daily x30 days or more.
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Social Media Traction Press people are also people
If you are able to proof you can gain social media traction, the press will feel more comfortable reporting about you, that you are / will be significant. Social media is your mini proof of concept.
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Users
Press
The Buzz Vortex
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Users
Press
The Buzz Vortex
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Users
Press
The Buzz Vortex
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Users
Press
The Buzz Vortex
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Users
Press
The Buzz Vortex
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Make it a Crowd Fun Thing
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1. Don’t Think About the Million 2. Build Your Crowd, Target Rich Environment, Start Early 3. Build People, Crowdsource your team 4. Crowd Networking, Engage, Think We 5. What’s Hot : Celebrity, ex-Fortune500, Games, Smartwatch, 3D Printing 6. Have A Good Product, Crowdsource “Product Managers”, Engage 7. Know Your Pledge, Reward, Funding Goal, Fund within 3 days 8. Media Exposure & Social Media Traction (The Buzz Vortex) 9. Crowd Fun Thing, Run it Like a Reality Show + Game Show 10. … … … ??
Recap
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Can you do all that on your own?
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Can you do all that on your own? Crowd it
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Crowdsourcing is a paradigm shift It’s a network more like chaos theory than a linear progression
Starts with the One Give it a shot. Always your best shot. That’s all you can do.
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If you never shoot, it’s always a miss. Dutch entrepreunial spirit
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