DETAILS:

Want to start your own business or have a great idea for tomorrow?s next million-dollar invention? Congratulations ? crowdfunding gives you the power to bring entire businesses and better widgets to life overnight. But what is crowdfunding exactly, how does it compare to crowdsourcing, and (more importantly) how can you use it to provide venture capital for any project or startup?

The good news for aspiring inventors and startups: With the right project and assets to convey your vision to potential backers, and a detailed understanding of how to engage with today?s audiences, anyone can make their dreams a reality. Better yet, you too can participate in
this exciting new means of funding, and launch nearly any promising new project or business. Ready to dive in headfirst and begin raising attention and capital for your latest and greatest ideas? Let?s begin by taking a deeper look at what crowdfunding means, and how exactly the
field works.

This is an intensive workshop which will provide an overview of Crowdfunding, how to go about creating Crowdfunding campaigns, & more importantly how to convince your potential investors of the value proposition to them & your target customers. It will also discuss plenty of real world examples of successful & un-successful (failed) Crowdfunding campaigns & a few tricks to crack the best deal possible.

Agenda is listed below:
Introduction
Latest trends in Crowd funding
What is Crowdfunding?
Popular Crowdfunding platforms in India: Wishberry & Indiegogo
Crowdfunding Pros/Cons
Comparison to traditional Investments like Angel/Venture Capital
Preparing for your Crowdfunding adventure
Sample rewards
ABOUT THE EVENT ORGANIZER:

Pradeep is the Founder & CEO of Startup Wizardry which is an Events company specializing in Entrepreneurship. He specializes in Business Model Innovation & Venture Capital Investments (Angel/Seed/VC). He has mentored several Startups at his company and Accelerators such as NUMA Bangalore ( A Paris based Startup Accelerator http://numabengaluru.com/), Institute of Product Leadership (http://www.productleadership.in), & Raffles Design School (http://rafflesbangalore.com). He is an Events Organizer at Startup Pirates (A Portugal based Pre-Accelerator http://www.startuppirates.org/) & Startup Weekend (TechStars https://startupweekend.org). He is a Curator for Startup Digest Bangalore (TechStars https://www.startupdigest.com).

Prior to this, he worked as a Management Consultant at US Government Agencies like Client Network Services Inc., (CNSI)/US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington DC, & short term gigs @ innovative startups like ZoomCars (Bangalore), Plutora (Australia), & G2G (Bangalore). He is a Computer Science/MIS graduate from the State University of New York (SUNY), Binghamton.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

Tickets once purchased are non-refundable under any circumstances and cannot be transferred to anyone else.
Ticket is only valide for the duration specified in the agenda.
"Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business." ~ Alexander Osterwalder (Strategyzer)

"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion" ~ Elon Musk (Tesla)

"Just as we tend to underestimate the role of luck in life in general, we tend to overestimate it in games of chance" ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Banker & Economist)

"When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project" ~ Paul Graham (Y Combinator)

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