Crowdfunding has evolved in recent years, not only for people wanting to kickstart their business or connect with potential investor but those who want help with health and medical related causes, how people want to save the local business, or invest or donate their hard earned funds to a worthy cause
The evolution of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing funds
1. The Evolution of Crowdfunding
& Crowdsourcing
The Modern Day Funding From Crowds
Danny Denhard - Director of Growth & Crowdfunding
StartGrowth - October 2019
2. £4billion
💏 19 Years
👏 25 Million
🆕 5k Pages Per Day
🌎 160+ Countries
🤯 50 Million Social Shares & Emails
// @dannydenhard
3. Peer to Peer
has always
been essential,
it’s many
forms now
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👩⚕ 🏃
🐕 ⚽
4. Marketing
Experience
Product
⬅ Customer Journey ➡
Sales
Growth
Support
Commun
ications
Looking For
A Product
Aware
& Compare
Picked
Product
Using The
Product
Recommend
Or Reuse
Marketing
Know your
Product Experience
// @dannydenhard
5. The connection to the story
& buying into that specific
story and interaction
🚙 Car Boot
Sales
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Something to think about
9. Remittance
Most common case of moving money between
people
Crypto
Decentralised; Stable coins aka Libra flirting
with the market likely to have huge potentials
and ramifications
Pay Day Loans
Still hugely problematic in 🇬🇧 market and
common place
Other Common Use Cases
Every minute $162,037 transactions processed
on Venmo
JustGiving has raised over $5billion for good
causes
Facebook communities have raised $1b on
birthdays
// @dannydenhard
Crowdfunding Marketplace
11. Getting
Cut
Through?
Social
• 4.8m Gif from Giphy served
• 277777 Instagram Stories
• 4.5m videos watched on YouTube
• 511200 tweets sent
• 4.49m Google Searches are made
Communications
• 1.4m tinder swipes
• 18.1m Texts are sent
• 188m emails sent
• 1m Views on Twitch
Disruption
• Airbnb 1389 bookings made
• $162037 transactions processed on Venmo
Every 60 seconds on the internetSomething to think about
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12. ☎ Product vs Marketing 📱
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14. • Think about how you could be
seen or written about
• Business press
• Wired
• Techcrunch
• Yahoo Finance
• Consumer - Attention based press:
• Buzzfeed
• Vice
• Daily Mail
• The Guardian
• Lads Press
Marketing Is
Your Biggest
Challenge
// @dannydenhard
18. Strangers
Strangers
Fundraiser
Family and
close friends
Colleagues
Friends of
friends
People with
same interests
Product Reach
Think of the fundraiser at
the centre, the layers of
connections and herds
they should bring to the
product - currently this
rarely happens. Challenge
yourself to think about
each later and how to
reach out further and
wider
Money Exchange
Understand that each layer
has the ability to transfer
money into each layer.
Scale and network effects
available if executed correctly // @dannydenhard
19. Strangers
Huge Amounts
of money
Donated by complete
strangers who happened
to see a page in local
press as the story really
resonates or they went
through the same thing
previously.
Alternative Payments
Do not be surprised if
someone wants to donate
with something other than £.
Time — Energy — Love —
Points
// @dannydenhard
Same
Interests
You
F&F
20. Fundraiser
Colleagues
People with the same
interests
Friends of Friends
Family & Friends
ConnectionMakeUp
Strangers
“Investment”
Business Equity
Peer to Peer
Peer to Peer
Peer to Peer
Self funded
Business Equity
Business Equity
Business Equity
Business Equity
Business Equity
Peer to Peer
Primary Secondary
// @dannydenhard
22. // @dannydenhard
Faith, Belief, Hope
Listen to this podcast
series, it is an important
series of lessons how to
brand, to position and
market yourself or your
brand or Product.
Important on the same
level of brand as Uber,
WeWork, or as magic as
Fyre Festival & Theranos
Brand Like Tasty
Tasty is the best example
of a modern day brand.
Created a brand across
social media that was
platform agnostic but
worked natively and drove
views to nudge to
purchase when right time
24. Fundraiser
Colleagues
People with the same
interests
Friends of Friends
Family & Friends
ConnectionMakeUp
Strangers
“Investment”
Groups, Mutual Intros
Email, Social Media
Face to face, IM, Email
Face to Face, SMS,
Whatsapp, Email
Intros, cold call, targeted
LinkedIn
Intro, Email, Group
Communications Chance of Reply
👍👍👍👍👍
👍👍👍👍
👍👍👍
👍👍
👍
👍👍
// @dannydenhard
25. 60%+ of sales in Japan
are through vending
machines
🥤Coca Cola 🥤
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Something to think about
26. 😞 Emotion As A Value
Exchange 😞
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27. 1. Asking for help
2. Is it OK?
Culturally 🇬🇧
Worry
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28. So I am going to tell
you them as you
haven’t heard them
I have two
sayings that my
team(s) hate
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35. Take Inspiration From Pixar
| Image Source: Pixar // @dannydenhard
Disney always kills off an important character in the opening scenes
36. 1. The Set Up
Strong attention grabbing opening - set up hero journey
2. Goals
Conflict or confrontation - Longest part, build anticipation and the
turning point
3. Resolution
Shortest phase - twists short and clear, build tension until the wrap
up - give your audience that moment
Script Writers Guide
// @dannydenhard
37. “The Hook”
Hit them hard in first
ten mins or ten
seconds
Most Important
Part?
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38. This Applies To
Raising Money Know this is going to happen
Imposter Syndrome happens to everyone
// @dannydenhard| Image Source: Imgur
39. Leverage what
we know about
humans
// @dannydenhard
🧐🙃😞🤔🙁😍😇🤪
We are built to survive
to read and interpret
human emotions
🧐🙃😞🤔🙁😍😇🤪
51. Social welfare
Sports
Animals and pets
Emergencies
Schools and education
Local community
Disability support
Children and youth
In memory
Health and medical
People Care
About Health,
Wellbeing & Each
Other
// @dannydenhard
52. This is a fake news,
was an incorrect stat
that was used in a
Microsoft report by
accident
// @dannydenhard
Something to think about
Image Source Telegraph
54. Type Birth Ranges Touch Point Product Your Relevancy
Gen Z (Centennials) 1996 Yes ⭐⭐
Gen Y 1977 - 1995 Yes ⭐⭐
Milennials 1983 - 1995 Yes ⭐⭐
Gen X 1965 – 1976 Yes ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Baby Boomers 1946 – 1964 Yes ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Traditionalists or Silent
Generation
Before 1945 Yes ⭐⭐⭐
// @dannydenhard
55. Monzo - Kings & Queens of
Community
Coupled with the coral card
their community (customers)
open up their own wallets to
back them 💰
👏 TV ads drove close to 1
million card sign ups
// @dannydenhardImage Source Monzo
56. Buy Product Use & Reuse ProductFind out about product Tell a handful of friends
Until 2003
// @dannydenhard
57. Use Product Evaluate Share with FriendsRegister
Value Exchange
Buy Product Use & Reuse ProductFind out about product Tell a handful of friends
Until 2003
2003 - 2013
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58. Use Product Evaluate Share with FriendsRegister
Share with Friends Use Product EvaluateRegister
Value Exchange
Value Brought With Share Value From Friends
Buy Product Use & Reuse ProductFind out about product Tell a handful of friends
Until 2003
2003 - 2013
2013 - Today
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73. // @dannydenhard
Precise Story
• Clear timeline
• The People involved
• Action required
• How you (supporter) will be part
of the story
• Rich Media to show the broader
picture
Theme:
1. Clear Headline
2. Powerful
Image
Updates & Thanking:
• Updating to keep timely (timeline)
• Updating to keep relevant and people up to date
• Before — During — Post
75. T H E T O P T A K E A W A Y S
Product is essential, you need something to sell for people to
buy into and quickly
3. Marketing & Distribution
2. The story is essential
4. Say Thank You!
5. One size never fits all
7. Feedback can be brutal
8. Understand the world is noisy
1. Product is key
Storytelling is the difference between someone supporting
you or the company
Marketing is not easy, get it the right people in the format
they want and when resonates most
You might be busy but always be prepared to say thank you
and early & often
There is nothing more annoying than having a cookie cutter thank you or
unpersonalised thank you
Feedback is a gift, however online is can be brutal and you should expect
feedback questioning you, your product and your people
The world has never been so easy to get messages out there, speak to
the people you would love to BUT it is also the over communicated
world. Be prepare for your message to be lost or ignored
// @dannydenhard
6. Build a community
Don’t just build customers or people who have invested, get people
brought in & support you constantly