Let’s Learn Crowdfunding

May the crowd be with you!

Come and learn how crowdfunding works and how you can mobilise the “Power of the Crowd”. Presented by Silicon Beach Crowdfunding partner, iPledg. 

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Please note this event just “pivoted” to a sponsored event

We decided to test the effectiveness of using a crowdfunding platform for ticketing our events. While we had 40+ RSVPs after 3 weeks, we had only 6 pledges (less than 40% of the target). So just like a true startup, we listened to the community and put on sponsorship rewards and encouraged our sponsors to pledge. We are happy to report that within minutes we had two returning sponsors, Foundr magazine & Fostr Funding. Those and few other smaller pledges took the pledges to 91% of the target. We are now confident of meeting the target by midday on 22nd August when the campaign ends. 

You will notice on the left of this page we have ended all sponsorships. This is your chance to join Foundr & Fostr as a valued supporter of Silicon Beach.  Sponsorship is one way of showing you support to this wonderful community of startups, small businesses, professionals and service providers who supply the community with products and services.  The campaign will be open for your pledges till midday Saturday Aug 22 (the day of this event). 

Pledge your sponsorship here now.

Please note you don’t have to be able to attend this event on 22nd August to become a sponsor. We will promote your business on the day and your logo and listing will go on the meetup pages. Your financial contribution will provide the seed funding needed for specific Silicon Beach projects (eg. SB TV, SB Radio, SB School of Startup, SB Internships, SB Member Directory, SB mobile apps, opening of Silicon Beach communities in regional towns etc). To keep things fresh, all new sponsorships will be limited to 1 – 3 months and will be available only via Crowdfunding campaigns such as this one. 

Pledge your sponsorship here now. 

Have you got what it takes to be a great entrepreneur? The concept of “paying it forward” is what has made Silicon Valley so successful as an eco-system. Let’s do the same here. If you have benefitted from Silicon Beach in anyway, we are giving you an opportunity to pay it forward. 

RSVP on this meetup page for entry to the crowdfunding workshop.  Pledging to attend is no longer required but if you feel an overwhelming desire to  support the community that keeps on supporting you, don’t ignore that feeling. Please go ahead and pledge 😉 

Thank you to those of you who pledged already, you are awesome! 

Click here for the event details and pledge if you like. 

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Learn how to run a reward based crowdfunding campaign.
Come and listen to an expert on how to run a reward based crowdfunding campaign, ask a few questions and find out if you may be able to use crowdfunding in the near future.  

This is a pre-launch event for Silicon Beach crowdfunding campaigns. 

We are testing some of our assumptions with this pre-launch event. Start the journey of growing and extending the Silicon Beach community.

We have some exciting projects in the pipeline, find out what they are, who else we are partnering with and how you can get involved. Partnering with Silicon Beach crowdfunding campaigns will expose your startup, small business to a vast audience throughout Asia-Pacific and the rest of the world. 

Let’s grow the Silicon Beach community and the eco-system together. 

Places are limited and may need to be waitlisted, so RSVP early. 

See you on Saturday 22nd August. 

Athula Bogoda
Lead Organiser

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Photographs maybe taken at all Melbourne Silicon Beach organised events. These maybe Tweeted, uploaded to MSB meetup page and otherwise used on MSB Facebook page, website etc.

Audio recording of this event may be produced by EATT Magazine on behalf of Melbourne Silicon Beach and uploaded to iTunes, Spreaker, SoundCloud or Stitcher and/or a variety of other podcasting platforms, and used on the forthcoming Silicon Beach Radio podcast series. 

Video recordings maybe made using Periscope live streaming app and beamed to the world via the Periscope channels of SiliconBeachMel, Alexar or AthulaBogoda – the SB TV team. Live streams may be available for global viewing online for up to 12-24 hrs after the event.  Selected segments of the live streams maybe uploaded to  Silicon Beach TV YouTube channel. 

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