Events matching tag "crowdfunding"
Friday, March 7
You've heard about rewards based crowdfunding (the Kickstarters, and Indigogos) of the world, but do you know about equities crowd funding? With the anticipated Title III new regulations of the J.O.B.S (Jumpstart Our Bu…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Tyrrell, Jessica Randazza
Saturday, March 8
Youth sports is nearly perfect as a strategy to create a better world. Kids love to play and participation teaches them essential lifelong values - teamwork, setting and reaching goals, perseverance, managing adversity, …
Intermediate
Presenters
Grant Garrison, Ryan Eckel
With nearly $250 million raised for important causes all over the world combined, RYOT News, (RED) and Omaze set the standard for collaboration in the social entrepreneurship space, and how incredibly important it is for…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bryn Mooser, Chrysi Philalithes, Ian Somerhalder, Ryan Cummins
New to the Film Conference this year, Future 15s are short, intense salvos with each speaker delivering a 15-minute solo performance before being immediately replaced by the following speaker. Come hear, John Trigonis of…
Beginner
Presenters
Elisabeth Holm, John Trigonis, Nicolas Gonda
Learn secrets of the trade from the organizations that have been doing crowdfunding the longest - charity: water, Donors Choose, Kiva and Global Giving. Combined these brands have raised hundreds of millions of dollars o…
Advanced
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Katherine Woo, Katie Bisbee, Kevin Conroy, Paull Young
Sunday, March 9
The potential for Crowdfunding lies outside the USA. Emerging markets that have been cut off from the capital markets stand at a point in time to access billions of dollars of capital that will fundamentally challenge t…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jason Best, Sherwood Neiss
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25782 Ma…
Beginner
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Connie Zheng
On August 20th, 2012 a product called “Instacube” was nothing more than a rendering. By the evening of August 21st, Instacube had raised over $100,000 in it's first day on Kickstarter and earned over 3,000 media hits. S…
Intermediate
Presenters
Savannah Peterson, Tom Miale
Monday, March 10
In 2013, the ban on general solicitation of accredited investors was lifted, causing the largest change to securities laws in decades. While everyone from startups to hedge funds will enjoy new liberties in investor mark…
Intermediate
Presenters
Douglas Ellenoff, Joy Schoffler, Judd Hollas, Judy Robinett
While overseas manufacturing provides inexpensive labor, lower component pricing, and (in some cases) lower development cost, without deeply experienced employees and trusted partners the savings may be not worth it. Bey…
Intermediate
Presenters
Rob Bangerter, Sean McBeath
So you want to raise money online and go viral? Whether you are a nonprofit, artist, or an entrepreneur crowdfunding a project, how you tell your story, manage your team and leverage lessons learned from gaming will play…
Intermediate
Presenters
Matthew Bishop
Tuesday, March 11
In a rapid-fire repartee, million-dollar crowdfunding comedian Adam Carolla and FundAnything founder, Bill Zanker, will detail how crowdfunding is disrupting the way movies are financed and produced. Adam will explain ho…
Intermediate
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Adam Carolla, Bill Zanker
We all believe in equality for girls and women. #Duh. Yet less than 7% of funding goes to girls and women's causes, and one in four organizations that work on those issues is in danger of closing. To solve that problem, …
Intermediate
Presenters
Maz Kessler, Tyler LePard
Financing shouldn't be a dirty word. It's an integral part of the music business, and perhaps the most overwrought topic facing the industry as traditional models give way to 360, equity investments, crowdfunding, self-f…
Presenters
Ben Cary, Benji Rogers, John Strohm, Eli Ball