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I was lucky enough to receive the Melbourne Grant a few months back. It allowed me to prototype a product I eventually tried to get up on crowd-funding. Sadly no luck there, but great initiative and meant I could at least give it a go and learn something.
What was it about? Why did you have no success?
I was lucky enough to receive the Melbourne Grant a few months back. It allowed me to prototype a product I eventually tried to get up on crowd-funding. Sadly no luck there, but great initiative and meant I could at least give it a go and learn something.
What was it about? Why did you have no success?
And here's a blog post I wrote about why I think it didn't work: http://www.pigsdontfly.com/2013/05/7-things-i-learned-from-u...
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I'd say it's more like "venture anarchy" or "venture lololololol". There's no central organization and each chapter is self-organizing. I was a trustee of the SF chapter for about two years. :)
This woman has balls, totally awesome, luv her idea to embetter ones surrounding just by empowering people to DO it. There's a lot Mill-/Billionaires can learn from her. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the concept of self-organization! Writing a thesis+project on it :)
A site that funds the next Mars Lunar Rover in an X-Prize manner, for instance. Another site that provides crowd-funded medical grants like the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Perhaps another to help fund some of Bill Gates' ambitious projects. He's got big ideas and even he's gonna need a little more cash. :-)
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What was it about? Why did you have no success?
* Here was my crowd-funding campaign: http://www.pozible.com/project/11432 And here's a blog post I wrote about why I think it didn't work: http://www.pigsdontfly.com/2013/05/7-things-i-learned-from-u...
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What was it about? Why did you have no success?
* Here was my crowd-funding campaign: http://www.pozible.com/project/11432 And here's a blog post I wrote about why I think it didn't work: http://www.pigsdontfly.com/2013/05/7-things-i-learned-from-u...
If you switched to 3D Printed materials, I think the costs would be much less and you could have funded it with the amount of money you already collected.
So I quickly contacted several of my friends here in Delhi, India and got them many of them interested. Now we have: http://awesomefoundation.in/
Anyone in India/Delhi, who is interested in joining this, hit me up at paras1987@gmail.com
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What was it about? Why did you have no success?
* Here was my crowd-funding campaign: http://www.pozible.com/project/11432 And here's a blog post I wrote about why I think it didn't work: http://www.pigsdontfly.com/2013/05/7-things-i-learned-from-u...
Couple of suggestions though: Shipping: if you can analyse where backers are coming from, why not try to cut a deal with stores or brew shops/brew pubs which you could strategically locate where your biggest clusters of customers are. That way you could ship in bulk to single locations, and mail out certificates for backers to go and pick up their beerend. Explain why you're doing this to the backers, and for the stores, send extra they can sell, but they have to hold the reserve amount for backers. Plus you would be sending people to their stores that take their beer storage seriously, so they may turn out to be good customers.
Marketing: Bottle end: maybe change the marketing focus of the product, as you said it can be used for wine bottles, cans whatever. Go all out, dev the 2.0 for glass shelves versions, patent it and sell it to fridge makers
Good luck!
This is FANTASTIC! I am quite excited about the whole proposition. Wish it were there when I was in college... So I quickly contacted several of my friends here in Delhi, India and got them many of them interested. Now we have: http://awesomefoundation.in/ Anyone in India/Delhi, who is interested in joining this, hit me up at paras1987@gmail.com
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What was it about? Why did you have no success?
* Here was my crowd-funding campaign: http://www.pozible.com/project/11432 And here's a blog post I wrote about why I think it didn't work: http://www.pigsdontfly.com/2013/05/7-things-i-learned-from-u...
Did you think of partnering with quirky?
P.s. I would love to try printing this on my replicator2