Crowdfunding Traditional Funding
Free of Ownership/Control issues They call crowdfunding “stupid money”
Indian Consumer Oriented Profit Oriented
Cost Free Marketing Generally money used for marketing
Distribute Publicity materials as rewards Branding costs additional
Best Market Research Tool Better for Valuation
Get ‘Angle Consumers’ n/a
Proof of Value Proof of Expected profits
For Early Stage Finance & Student Startups
Success Stories…
Took workshops and did demos btw more than 4k
students
While working on motion sensing devices, her cup-cakes found many takers
Professors thought it can be a handy tool for their students at Kutch & Kadi
Success Stories…
Sent daily post cards and personal video messages
Interesting rewards like selecting Rally car number
Achieved pre-sale of more than 400 dvds
“Zero liability start-up funding and impart ‘skills’ to pitch Indian dreams and products.”
- CFI
CFI Boot Camp
CFI 2.0 Bootcamp & More…
Registration
and
Selection
Training
And
Launching
Campaigning
2 week Boot-Camp:Ideate, Incentives
Pitch Video & SMO
2 day Work-Shop:Incentives And
Pitch Video
Institutions take Pride
Build Local ‘Heros’
Passion of Project Creator
IPR & Legalities
CFI 100 GUJARAT (June-July 2015)
580 colleges under GTU80000 Final year Projects
95% Student start-ups die due to lack of less than Rs. 10 Lacs
100 Projects convert into Start-ups via CrowdfundingRs 51 x 1000 = Life changing amount for many
“Crowdfunding is like betting against the odds”
Thank You!
Ateet Bajaj
M: +91 9824479002