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Crowdfunding 101 for Startups & Entrepreneurs - With Pradeep Prabhu

Name: Crowdfunding 101 for Startups & Entrepreneurs - With Pradeep Prabhu
Start: 2016-07-27T23:30:00+05:30
End: 2016-07-28T02:30:00+05:30
Location: Bloom & Grow 84/F, 17 D Main, Koramangala 6th block, Opposite Koramangala Club, Koramangala

Happened

Wednesday, 27 July 2016, 11:30 pm - 2:30 am

Bloom & Grow 84/F, 17 D Main, Koramangala 6th block, Opposite Koramangala Club, Koramangala

Bengaluru

About

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) Address and directions to B&G - http://bloomandgrow.in/contact-us/

Founders here come to know a few brands well.

Those are eChai’s partner brands. Over a year, founders across the network learn their names and their work, and when somebody asks around for what they do, theirs is the name that comes up.

Partner brand founders together at Zestard HQ, Ahmedabad

What a year inside eChai does for your brand.

Each partnership comes with presence across eChai, introductions to the right founders, and a team that stays involved through the year. And each one is shaped around what the brand wants out of it.

Who you meet

Founders learn your name, then your work.

Over the year they keep running into you: at the gatherings, in the series, on the pages they read through the week. So when one of them needs what you do, they come straight to you.
We introduce you to the people you want to reach.

After seventeen years of gatherings we know who has built what, and who works with whom. Tell us who you are after, or we come to you when the right person shows up, with your story and why you two should talk.
You are invited to the gatherings that fit.

Open houses, Demo Days, the AI sessions, FailCode, the curated socials and the smaller dinners, some of them by invitation. When one fits what you do and who you want to meet, you are on the list.

What we do with you

We sit down with you on your story, your brand and your business.

One to one, more than once in the year. We have heard a few thousand founders, so you hear fairly quickly what is working, what is not, and what we would change first.
We take your team through what AI changed for us.

Almost everything eChai builds now has AI in the workflow. We go through what we tried, what worked and what wasted our time, and then connect you to founders further along than us.
You can ask us anything, whenever it comes up.

Every week we hear what founders are building, what they recommend to each other and what they have moved on from. Twice a year we go through what it means for your category. In between we answer, or find a founder who can.

Where your name runs

Your mark comes round under every page on eChai.

The wall of partner brands under the site's pages draws a different ten each time, so yours comes round on the city pages, the event pages and the notes founders read, all year. Your page on echai.ventures stays up after it, and your name runs through our LinkedIn, Instagram and X.
The blue tick puts you first wherever founders are listed.

The tick and your company's mark sit beside your name across eChai, and lists of founders put the blue ticks first: your city's people, the directory, and the roster of every gathering you go to, after its hosts and speakers.
Your company carries its mark on the Startup Grid.

Where your company is on a city's map of its startups, it is drawn by your mark rather than a dot, opens on your own words and pictures, and is a stop on the tour the map offers of its partner brands.
You write and speak here under your own name.

You come into the series we run online (How Founders Use AI, the founder conversations, the long reads) where you have something real to say, and you write in Founder Notes, where founders across our cities write about what they are building.

The brands working with us.

How it works.

A partnership is for growth stage founders who want to come in as a partner brand, and it runs one year at a time. The brand fee for the year is paid to eChai. An affiliate share runs alongside it, linked to the outcomes we drive together. Both carry GST.

Everything a partnership comes with

To come in as a partner brand, write to me at [email protected] and tell me what you want the year to do for your brand.