Your marketplace startup funding options aren’t limited to bootstrapping or raising venture capital. Listen to our CEO Juho’s best tips on an increasingly popular startup funding method: crowdfunding.
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Marketplace funding: How to crowdfund your marketplace. Juho Makkonen, Marketplace Academy
Sources and further reading:
Sharetribe raises EUR 1.1 million in crowdfunding. Good News from Finland
Two-sided: Lessons from building Kickstarter with Charles Adler. Sharetribe
Platform cooperavitism. Platform Cooperativism Consortium
What are community shares? Ethex
Percentage of successfully funded Kickstarter projects as of April 2022. Statista
Crowdfunding Limit Increase Benefits Investors And Companies. Henry Yoshida, Forbes
Cycle.land: From marketplace idea to profitability in a matter of months. Juho Makkonen, Marketplace Academy
How A 'Non-Techie' Oxford Graduate Built A Booming Online Bike-Sharing Scheme. Alison Coleman, Forbes
Rinse and repeat – An interview with Daan Weddepohl. Thea Sørvig Østbye, Marketplace Academy
Crowdfunding pages of campaigns mentioned:
The Octopus Club’s Crowdcube campaign
Peerby’s OnePlanetCrowd campaign
The Marketplace Academy Podcast is hosted and narrated by Katri Antikainen.
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