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Some opening words of reassurance about me...
• Part of world’s first collaborative crowd-funding campaign: #calderdalerising
• Managed (and grew) social enterprise loan fund
• Train other enterprise advisors on how to support clients develop financial models
• Approved provider within national social finance & growth programmes
social enterprise “specials”(aka ‘social investment/finance’)
CDFI
Quasi-equity
Community shares
Social impact bonds
Loan stock
'In-kind'
crowd-funding
Adrian Ashtn
What do you need the cash for? Dealing with failure
('rebooting' the business)
fashion/credibility
Validation (reassuring yourself)
Set-up
Development
Working capital
Crowdfunding – the reality
Adrian Ashtn
http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/understanding-alternative-finance
Crowdfunding – the reality
Adrian Ashtn
http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/understanding-alternative-finance
Crowdfunding – is it right for you?• What’s your story?• What’s your reach?• What’s your offer?• How would you use an army of ambassadors?
• ‘biggest hits’ = games and tech • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
List_of_highest_funded_crowdfunding_projects
Adrian Ashtn
the rise of ‘pick n mix’
Hybrid – part banks and part crowd sourced
Community shares temporarily underwritten by CDFI
Adrian Ashton
• Although most know about it, few use it
• Widespread lack of skills and knowledge about how to do it
• Offers more freedom to define projects and services on groups own terms
• Growing intention to use it in coming year
“Try everything once apart from incest and murder”
- attr. Oscar Wilde
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