Why do stories matter?The great American storyteller Andrew Stanton says that “Stories connect the barrier of time…past, present, and future — allowing us to experience similarities between ourselves and others — real and imagined.”
Because compelling stories begin with a promise, such as “Once upon a time,” we wanted to create a platform for parents and children to be able to create customizable stories that speak to the promises that they want to be a part of creating. Promises that inspire imagination as a bridge to manifesting realities.Ones that provide solutions and innovative thinking to some of the most pressing problems of our generation and generations to come.
Our platform brings together a diverse community comprised of — parents and children, authors and illustrators as well as educators that work collaboratively to create stories leveraging crowd-sourced content that’s highly customizable.
While customization is not unique to our platform, our key differentiators are 2-foldLittle Seed is the only story-building platform that aggregates quality curated content, allowing users to build upon existing stories.Secondly, we have a revenue sharing model with content providers that allows them to price their own work.
In our first year of operation, we expect to sell 10k books for total revenue of 100k. How? It all starts with blood, sweat, and tears. We’ve put over 2,000 hours into the development of Little Seed. In the midst of acquiring funding through business plan competitions, we expect to launch a Kickstarter campaign this summer, acquiring our first customers and launching the initial iteration of the Little Seed platform.
With proven sales, we will attract additional capital from friends, family, and other small-scale local investors. This will allow us to hire a full-time developer on staff to complete the build out of the full scale platform. Every user is invited to become a content generator and share in the revenues from each book sold. Leveraging this crowd-sourced content, we will expand partnerships to schools, enabling a new type of personalizationin the classroom, putting kids at the center of learning.
At this point, a more naturalized growth pattern begins with revenues reaching 2 million in year 3…. All this made possible by our triple bottom line approach, building a social enterprise that focuses on the needs, wants, and desires of children all over the world. But the most important result of all?
1 million voices are heard, many for the first time, owning the stories of their own lives. Let’s listen in on one of those stories…
Ron - Cristina - Laila – And I’m Jason Walter and Little Seed is MY story. Who knows, by engaging children, we may even learn something ourselves.
Please join us in a commitment to inspire cultural understanding, global connectivity and positive change through storytelling. There’s a hero in each of us… Little Seed brings that hero to life.
