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Ulule is a crowdfunding site for various creative project categories. Ulule makes good things happen as you post your project on site and tap your network to help you fund your project.
There’s a lot happening in the French crowdfunding industry. Recent announcements have included KissKissBankBank partnering with the French Post as their official fundraising and artist discovery platform and Ulule who have just launched a new feature, a presale option supporting products coming to market once they have raised the required level of capital. I was really keen to understand more about how the crowdfunding industry is developing in general, and in particularly, how it’s doing in France. I got in touch with ten founders of crowdfunding platforms to learn what I could. In all, I spoke to: Smiti Arbia from carnetdemode.com, Nicolas Bailly de touscoprod, Alexandre Boucherot d’Ulule, Hortense Garand from babeldoor.com, Michael Goldman from MyMajorCompany, Nicolas Guillaume from Friendsclear, Angel Ramos de revenonsalamusique.com, Vincent Ricordeau from KissKissBankBank, and Yannick Robert from Mywittygames.com. In a series of three articles, I am going to look at different aspects of the topic. In this first part of a three article series, I look at what makes France different?
My count reached twenty-nine crowdfunding platforms currently operating in the French market, and there are probably more I’m unaware of. This is not to say the country is experiencing an extraordinary phenomena: crowdfunding is booming in Europe and across the world. Who hasn’t heard of Kickstarter’s success? Kickstarter can proud of having reached the dizzy heights of now raising in the order of a US$1m a week, all in less than 2 years in business, for new business ventures and special cause projects. One of their projects, the tiktok lunatik iPod Nano watch holder raising close to $1m alone. In Europe, France among other countries has not yet reached the point of such growth. Why is that?
This is the second part of my three-part series exploring some of the aspects entrepreneurs need to consider when designing a crowdfunding platform. The context for my posts has been a close look at the French crowdfunding market place and in-depth interviews with ten owners of French crowdfunding platforms. In my first post I presented a few factors that I felt made it more difficult for French crowdfunding platforms to achieve the same levels of explosive growth that are being experienced by crowdfunding platforms in the US. In this article I take a closer look at the different models that are being tested in the French market. I conducted interviews with ten owners of French crowdfunding platforms. Specifically, I spoke with: Smiti Arbia of carnetdemode.com, Nicolas Bailly of touscoprod, Alexandre Boucherot of Ulule, Hortense Garand of babeldoor.com, Michael Goldman of MyMajorCompany, Nicolas Guillaume of Friendsclear, Angel Ramos of revenonsalamusique.com, Vincent Ricordeau of KissKissBankBank, and Yannick Robert of Mywittygames.com.
At first glance, looking through the initiatives listed on the different crowdfunding websites, it’s easy to draw the conclusion that all crowdfunding ventures are the same; projects, causes or entrepreneurial ventures that are looking for funding. However, upon closer look, a number of characteristics that uniquely identify the different types of crowdfunding initiatives become apparent. Setting aside the different areas of focus for their mission (such as initiatives related to: music, movies, shows, fashion, books, journalism, horse racing, etc.), there is a recognizable set of goals that people raising capital through crowdfunding platforms are trying to achieve.
In this third and final part of my three-part series exploring some of the aspects entrepreneurs need to consider when designing a crowdfunding platform, I explore the eight essentials of crowdfunding. The context for my posts has been a close look at the French crowdfunding market place and in-depth interviews with ten owners of French crowdfunding platforms. In my first post, I presented a few factors that I felt made it more difficult for French crowdfunding platforms to achieve the same levels of explosive growth that are being experienced by crowdfunding platforms in the US such as IndieGoGo, Kickstarter and RocketHub. In the second post, I took a closer look at the different models that are being tested in the French market.
I learned a lot from my interviews with the founders of 10 French crowdfunding platforms. While many of the opinions were quite diverse there was also clear convergence on a common theme: they all held a passion for crowdfunding and a shared belief in its potential. For those of you that have also caught the crowdfunding bug, for this third post I have shared a list of “crowdfunding essentials”, gleaned from the experts that should help you pursue your crowdfunding goals. Thanks again to all the interviewees (in alphabetical order): Smiti Arbia from carnetdemode.com, Nicolas Bailly de touscoprod, Alexandre Boucherot d’Ulule, Hortense Garand from babeldoor.com, Michael Goldman from MyMajorCompany, Nicolas Guillaume from Friendsclear, Angel Ramos de revenonsalamusique.com, Vincent Ricordeau from KissKissBankBank, and Yannick Robert from Mywittygames.com.
A video on Crowdfunding Success Workshop. Featured speakers: -Alexandre Boucherot, Founder, Ulule (France) -Benji Rogers, Founder & CEO, PledgeMusic (UK)
The following crowdfunding sites were interviewed: KickStarter, IndieGOGO, SellaBand, RocketHub, Ulule, SlicethePie, Pozible, Pledge the Music, Feed the Muse, Artist Share, SonicAngel, and My Major...
According to Ulule's Cedric Begoc, social networks are the key player in crowdfunding. Once someone has donated to a project, they tend to take ownership of it and are likely to share it...
Regardless of platform, in the end you need to build trust with potential contributors. Advice and tips for each service: 1.Read the about pages, the rules for each service varies slightly....
“Gamesplanet Lab comes to the game development world as a fully formed design environment to give developers the support they need to bring their crowdfunded dreams into reality,” said...
Gamesplanet has decided to provide services for crowdfunding of quality video games, by raising awareness of the actors in the sector so that they, in turn, commit to guaranteeing the...
The popularity of the likes of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo may suggest room in the space for smaller niche platforms, which may well go on to support many more small creatives - but it’s not yet...
In April of this year the Brazilian market witnessed the first merger of crowdfunding platforms. Multidão, which was launched that same day, and Catarse have joined together to form the group Comum: a nonprofit organization aiming to stimulate crowdfunding in all its possibilities, from an open network to building an ecosystem to create value based on collaboration. Currently, the two sites coexist, and share similar focuses yet soon they will have their own directions.
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Crowdfunding Portfolio presents an overview of various projects that the site owner has supported through crowdfunding. The categories are as follows: KIVA MyC4 Sellaband IndieGoGo...
Brazilian crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platforms have had an explosion in growth in the first half of the year. But now, as we enter the second half, the major question is: can Brazil consolidate this growth?
The following sites offer crowdsourced funding for the arts: Fund It FundedByMe WeDidThis Ulule KissKissBankBank Mutuzz The Big Give Fans Next Door Pozible Unbound Sponsume WeFund...
Crowdfundng typically occurs when large numbers of people donate small amounts of money. Collectively, the funding can have significant effects in bringing a project to fruition.
Here are some ideas about how you can run an effective crowdfunding campaign: Get advice. Lay the groundwork for success. Have a cool reward. Share more than facts. Share...
Here are a few insights into some of the major crowdfunding sites: *Kickstarter- The biggest of the crowdfunding sites, Kickstarter raised approximately $100 million in funding in 2011,...
When video game developer Double Fine raised $3.3 million with its Kickstarter campaign last March, the entire industry took notice, scrambling to harness the crowd’s wisdom and cash. Valve Corporation and GamesPlanet just jumped on the bandwagon, revealing their own crowdsourcing efforts: GamesPlanet Lab and Steam Greenlight.
There are also lots of Kickstarter alternatives popping up -IndieGoGo and Ulule to name a couple -as well as a new Raleigh-based startup, Equity Shack,that is taking advantage of newly passed...
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