Sportaroo launched earlier this year – an All or Nothing platform for athletes and sporting clubs. “…we’re now on a mission to make sporting dreams come true.” (In our market we also have TeamBus and you can scroll down to the bottom to find out some key differences between the platforms.) Ashley … Continue reading
Category Archives: Australian platforms
Chip in Not-for-profit Crowdfunding
UPDATE: If you like the sound of Chip in, then checkout Chuffed! With the same zero fees (ie no commission, transaction costs only), Chuffed is like the bigger better version! With the same CEO in Prashan Paramanathan but with Testra Foundation as the Founding Partner, Chuffed has been launched to continue the … Continue reading
Ten inspiring changemakers from StartSomeGood
When writing Crowdfund it! I was very inspired to learn of StartSomeGood and the way they adapted crowdfunding to connect those who want to change the world and those who want to help them. I had the pleasure of talking to co-founder Tom Dawkins during the research phase of the book … Continue reading
Crowdfunding Platforms in Australia & New Zealand
Latest update: 7 December 2014. This post will continue to be updated as I add new platforms, or delete those that disappear. Australian Platforms ASSOB (AUSTRALIAN SMALL SCALE OFFERINGS BOARD) Focus: Capital Raising Platform for Unlisted Companies Fees: Listing fee of $900 for application to apply. If accepted fee of $3960 to raise … Continue reading
Crowdfunding to make poetry appear for The Disappearing
Poetry, an app called The Disappearing and Crowdfunding. Intriguing? I found it so! Today we feature a writing project that found success with their crowdfunding project on Australian platform Pozible. About The Red Room Company The Red Room Company is a not-for-profit organisation that creates, publishes and promotes poetry … Continue reading
Learning from failure to achieve success in crowdfunding books
Johanna Baker-Dowdell is in an interesting situation. The journalist, PR Consultant and blogger has just run a successful campaign on Australian crowdfunding site Pozible for her book called Business & Baby on Board. But nearly half of the campaigns run on crowdfunding sites ARE successful, so that’s not the interesting … Continue reading
Interview with Technoevangelist Fee Plumley about her crowdfunding project Really Big Road Trip
Fee Plumley is an artist, writer, consultant, speaker, and self confessed ‘technoevanglist‘. Plumley recently ran a project on Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible to get a bus and drive it around Australia. Through this trip Plumley will use the bus as a mobile digital arts space and create and share ‘geek … Continue reading
Crowdfunding Movies: The Second Coming
Update 22/10/12: Success! The Second Coming Movie has exceeded their funding target with around 22 hours still to run! Here’s hoping they continue to receive funding up until close of the project. Update 21/10/2012: With a mere forty hours left to run the project still has another 2% to raise to meet … Continue reading
Brisbane-based crowdfunding platform iPledg
iPledg is a crowdfunding platform on which those with creative, commercial, charitable, and community projects can raise funds from their networks and beyond. While still a relatively new concept in Australia, crowdfunding is the fastest growing form of ecommerce on the planet, and funds raised in this way do not … Continue reading
Creating social change with StartSomeGood
StartSomeGood is one of the crowdfunding platforms I feel very inspired by. They are using and adapting a crowdfunding platform to match up those who want to improve the world and those who are able to support them. While researching Crowdfund it! I had an long conversation with Co-founder Tom Dawkins and I’m … Continue reading