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Crowd Funding for Big Projects and Big Money !
People seeking to raise funds ask me often if crowd funding could be suitable for big project
having important budget. My answer is to say ....
"It depends on your ability, the ability of your project to be loved by the crowd!"
But until now, I did not have any example of a big project having raised big money!
Here you have a record of funds raised by crowd funding (with the support of the crowd funding
website Kickstarter): US $1,33 million!
Take a look at: http://goo.gl/40xNu
And another Kickstarter record: http://goo.gl/YneB6 with US $1,8 million raised with an intial
goal of $100,000!
Here another record of funds raised (with the support of the crowd funding website
Crowdcube): £1 million (= US $1,587 million)!
Take a look at: http://goo.gl/cIc2R
The French company IntuiLab holds the French record of funds raised by Crowd funding (with
the support of the Crowdfunding website Wiseed): €1,2 million (= US $1,6 million)!
From 2009 to now (march 2012), Wiseed has raised €5,89 million (= US $7,3 million) for
19 French startups!
Here another example (maybe the current world record) of funds raised by crowd funding: £2,2
million (= US $3,49 million)!!!!
Take a look at: http://goo.gl/I9qxi and http://goo.gl/QiQ6C
Ari Massoudi / Consultant Strategy of Innovation / www.strategy-of-innovation.com / www.linkedin.com/in/arimassoudi

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Another example: The “Iron Sky” film project: http://www.ironsky.net/
The producer is currently raising funds by a mix strategy: http://goo.gl/waZ14
1) Crowd funding (fans support the project by money
donation and get goodies and rewards)
2) Crowd mirco-investing (fans can become co-producer by
investing and hope to have royalties on future revenues)
3) Secured financing (classical way to get funds for film
such as banks, grants, partners …)
Concerning the Crowd funding strategy, Iron Sky has
already obtained €666,770 towards the goal of€900,000! The
total budget (1+2+3) of this film project is €7,500,000.
More about crowd funding:
http://www.strategy-of-
innovation.com/pages/List_of_Crowd_Funding_Websites_and_Websites_To_Find_Investors-
4605700.html
Ari Massoudi / Consultant Strategy of Innovation / www.strategy-of-innovation.com / www.linkedin.com/in/arimassoudi