My presentation on crowdfunding at the The Sweden-U.S. Entrepreneurial Forum in Stockholm and Entreprenörskaps Forum in October 2013: http://www.esbri.se/sweden-us.asp.
3. What is Crowdfunding?
Accumulation of small investments in individual projects by large
number of individuals (the “crowd”) via or with help of Internet
and social networks (De Buysere et al., 2012)
Picture: FundedByMe
5. Donation/reward most popular form
Form of Funding
Donation-based
Reward-based
Benefits for Funders
Donation
Donation or prepurchase
Intangible benefits.
Rewards in addition to intangible
benefits.
Return on investment if company
does well. Rewards sometimes also
offered and intangible benefits may
motivate too.
Repayment of loan with interest.
Alternatively intangible benefits if
loan given interest-free.
Equity-based
Investment
Debt-based
Loan
8. Local Stockholm success story: Flippin’
Burgers
Money raised:
SEK 36,502 / €4,000
Number of
Investors: 186
Date Funded:
September 2011
Sector: Food
Sjölund, FundedByMe
12. “Made in Africa” 3D printer (Togo) through
Ulele
Winner of International Space
Apps Challenge
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/5712/E-Waste-3D-Printer-to-Mars.aspx
13. And big names entering the scene
Executive Producer Robert Redford
Narrated by Jodie Foster
Donald Trump’s own crowdfunding site
Open to anyone
16. From crowdfunding to crowd equity
$5.1bln
Millions of dollars
• Equity < 5% of total
crowdfunding
• Politicians generally positive ->
entrepreneurs + job creation
• US, Italy, Denmark changing
regulations enabling equity
20. Implications
Easier for new companies to enter the market?
◦ Access to funds no matter where in world
◦ Fewer product/service failures?
Changing the “rules of the game”?
◦ Local solutions not interested in scalability
◦ Low price and quality without economies of scale
Increased global competition
21. Many unanswered questions
Some issues
Cross border investments?
Secondary markets for crowd equity shares?
Taxation issues for both investor and entrepreneur?
How to better leverage “crowd” for resources?
23. What’s around the corner?
24x7 global internet collaboration + open source + 3D printing + crowdfunding?
$60,000
$150
Available for free
download on
http://mashable.com/2013/02/13/robohand/
Where is the
firm?
24. Venture capitalists are the
travel agents of yesterday –
here today, gone tomorrow.
Venture capitalist in
Silicon Valley – June 2013
25. If you love knowledge, set it free…
Robin Teigland
robin.teigland@hhs.se
www.knowledgenetworking.org
www.slideshare.net/eteigland
www.nordicworlds.net
RobinTeigland
Photo: Lindholm, Metro
Photo:
Nordenskiöld
For more information on crowdfunding:
•Research Paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2263965
•Industry Report: http://blog.fundedbyme.com/robin-teigland/
Photo: Lindqvist
Notas del editor
Entrepreneurs need funding – we give them the chance to test, iterate and grow. Fast.Everyone wants to be part of the next big thing in business – without having to spend millions. Ownership is the best form of participation. Millions of ordinary citizens are a massive force.
Snabbutveckling, 600% på 3 årMassolution: Four established types of crowdfunding exist: donation-based, reward-based, equity-based, and lending or debt-based. In May 2013, there were around 800 crowdfunding platforms worldwide, and crowdfunding initiatives raised an estimated 2.6 billion USD in 2012, including about 945 million USD in Europe through 470 000 campaigns. Furthermore, Massolution predicts that in 2013 crowdfunding will reach volumes of 5.1 billion USD worldwide, with about 1.3 billion USD in European markets. To date, business and entrepreneurial activity comprises 16.9% of all crowdfunding activity while Information and Communication Technology projects comprise a mere 4.8% of activity. According to 2010 market data, Sweden’s venture capital firms made the highest value of investments relative to GDP in Europe and had the sixth highest investment value in the world (EVCA, 2012).There are no public statistics for crowdfunding for Sweden as a whole but, as of May 2013, and based on the publicly available numbers, we have estimated the amount raised in Sweden to be around USD 4 million, with 1 million of this through reward-based crowdfunding and 3 million through equity-based crowdfunding. The primary platform that deals with entrepreneurs, FundedByMe, raised around USD 3.8 million of that across 744 successful projects. Excluding FundedByMe itself, 25 of these successes were Technology or Internet related (by the platform’s definition), but only three have been entrepreneurial ICT projects as opposed to the more common social projects. Two raised USD 38 000 through reward-based crowdfunding while the third raised USD 150 000 through equity crowdfunding.
Go global – swedish market very small.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/benatural/be-natural-the-untold-story-of-alice-guy-blachehttp://www.prweb.com/releases/FundAnything/DonaldTrump/prweb10700690.htmExec producer robertredford, narrated by jodie foster
From CrowdCubeEquity < 10% of total crowdfunding Politicians generally positive -> entrepreneurs + job creationBut regulation is lagging in most countriesUSA passed JOBS Acts ”Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act”Title II for accredited investors this fallTitle III for non-accredited investors later in fall9 mln accredited investors in USA3% invested USD 23 bln in 2012 in startups and growth companies8.8 times more than total global crowdfunding marketNon-accredited investors even larger group
Jon Matonis, Forbes, Rhetorically, I posed the question: “In fifty years, would you rather own 100 euros, 100 Amazon Coins, or 100 bitcoins?” http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/05/20/bitcoin-comes-to-swift/
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