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Janine Shea

2013: What's In Store For Crowdfunding And Angel Investors - Forbes - 0 views

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GroundUp Crowdfunding Regulation SEC

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  • evolve into best practices and common leadership – this will accelerate the crowdfunding phenomena towards the $1 trillion market we predict it to be by 2020.  The investor democratization and customer communication involvement crowdfunding allows will trigger widespread corporate implementation by Q4, 2013.
  • mainly angels at this point – are in for the long haul
  • and not necessarily for a return on capital.
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  • Symbid confirms that their investors want to live vicariously through the efforts and innovation of the issuers.  Their Angel investors frequently roll over their investments.  The investor communication tool allows for investors to easily be updated and even vote on board members and larger decisions with the founders.
  • “In Europe, there will be increasing fusion between crowdfunding and angel networks. The notion that they are two entirely distinct concepts is an artificial one, and we will begin seeing more and more investors using both online (crowdfunding platforms) and offline (angel networks) methods to make their investments.”
  • However, US Angel networks will embrace crowdfunding more when
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  • crowdfunding for equity becomes legal in the US in 2014.
  • er dealers that will emerge in 2013 as crowdfunding for equity is delayed. 
  • The exception will be the new brok
  • Leading crowdfunding for equity players like Chance Barnett at CrowdFunder and Candace Klein at SoMoLend are getting licensed as brokers and will start engaging leading angel networks in the US.  SecondMarket’s partnership with Angelist is a recent direction how the landscape is changing.  Angelist had $12 million plus in transaction by angels into start ups in December 2012.
  • The new angel network ‘upstart’ FundingPost
  • While content is king, distribution is king kong
Janine Shea

Ed Norton's Crowdrise Brings Fundraising (And Fun) To The Masses | Co.Exist: World chan... - 0 views

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GroundUp Validation Crowdfunding Non-Profit Community-Level Competition

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      Janine Shea on 10 Dec 12
       
      "GroundUp is a personal narrative platform where you anchor your local life." Envision a future where folks are as closely identified with their 'local community personas' as they are with their broader 'second lives' on Facebook and Twitter
  • There’s a new era of social networking that’s taking shape around charitable giving. Younger people are rapidly adopting these new tools, and learning to use them in more and more substantive ways, to go beyond mere socializing and make these tools extremely productive. We’re seeing the sphere of social networking mature in a way that’s very exciting. People who continue to dismiss these social platforms as "a waste of time" or "just social chatter" are missing the boat. This is how people interact with each other and get things done. They share their personal and professional lives online. It should be no different when it comes to their philanthropic lives. More and more, we’re seeing the Crowdrise community share their charitable efforts with their social networks, both as a way to highlight their own commitment to a cause and as a very efficient way to turn their friends and family into new supporters.
  • They say “time is money,” but time is also an irreplaceable and personal connection to a cause.
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  • that time binds you to the mission of an organization in a way money cannot.
  • I like to give my time because it feels good to connect personally with a cause. If you’re someone who is fortunate enough to be able to commit both time and money to a cause you care about, well that’s double the happiness.
  • I realized there needed to be a way for people, including myself, to give and fundraise money for causes in an easy and fun way.
  • I think generosity can take many forms … financial, effort, emotional … but at its core it’s rooted in the realization that you get a good feeling from seeing happiness bloom in someone else
  • healthy environment
  • All the young people I see using Crowdrise every day, putting their creativity and effort into making a positive impact on the world. 
  • United Airlines committed to match every dollar up to $100,000
  • ountless Crowdrise users have started their own campaigns to support relief efforts in affected communities.
  • hat tends to be through peer-to-peer fundraising, and Crowdrise enables people to get the word out quickly to their networks and raise as much money as possible in a short period of time.
  • It’s a platform to allow anyone to fundraise for a cause, and it does it with a laid-back and funny attitude that undermines the self-seriousness of a lot of philanthropy.
  • I think people like our voice because it’s authentic. We believe giving should be easy and fun. People like engaging with something that is real, not some generic text.
  • Crowdrise is based on an idea of "sponsored volunteerism."
  • cultivated a new generation of young activists who manage not to take themselves too seriously in the process.
  • Why does the Crowdrise brand of irreverence and humor work?
  • We’ve found the more off the wall the incentives, the higher the engagement
  • there’s truth to our saying
  • “If you don’t give, no one will like you.”
  • You have called Crowdrise a “personal narrative platform where you anchor your activist life." Do you envision a future where folks are as closely identified with their "giving back personas" as they are with their “second lives” on Facebook and Twitter?
Janine Shea

Forget Networking: Connecting - 0 views

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GroundUp Networking Connecting Relationships CEO Leadership

shared by Janine Shea on 29 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • says he has never been to an official networking event. Instead, he advises, join organizations that focus on the events and activities you love.
Janine Shea

Recent Blog Posts > Local content drives engagement on Facebook - 0 views

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GroundUp Validation Local Social_Media Marketing Millward_Brown

shared by Janine Shea on 17 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • The experiment found that on an apples-to-apples basis, posting local content drove stronger levels of shares, likes and comments than global content. 
  • We found that during the first four months of this experiment, the average engagement rate across all geo-focused posts was six times higher than all global posts.
  • They identified nine different types of story that drove higher levels of engagement as shown in this infographic.  
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  • We know people appreciate personally relevant content and a sense of community, but these findings suggest that relevance may also be found in making content more specific to where someone lives, not just their lifestyle.
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    Excellent validation for location-based social network
Janine Shea

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GroundUp Web_Design Competition Social_Media Facebook Gamification

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    Non-gaming social network using gamification strategy! 
Janine Shea

The Challenges of Living Large: Scaling Up Sustainable Urban Growth | BSR Insight | BSR - 0 views

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    • Janine Shea
      Janine Shea on 07 Dec 12
       
      Get city departments talking to each other - breaking out of their silos! More accessible ways to communicate with each other - CASUAL, i.e. social network
  • Just like in corporations, setting goals and having a vision proves to be an essential start for cities that want to engage business.
  • Matthew Lynch, the project lead, said one of the main success factors is the opportunity for direct and open dialogue. “
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  • The companies in the UII are engaging collaboratively with cities upstream in the planning process, demonstrating the value of the early involvement of business and showing how a multisector group of leading companies can help cities find integrated solutions to interconnected challenges,” he said.
  • The “solution landscape” presents a menu of potential options for cities to address their key sustainability challenges. Lynch said one of the main success factors is the opportunity for direct and open dialogue. “Business adds value by being involved in the beginning, looking at the big plan, and looking at the issues landscape and challenges,” he said. WBCSD decided to work with multiple companies as opposed to a more ad hoc engagement to encourage the idea that it was business, not just individual companies working with cities.
  • The WBCSD expects that companies will use the landscape reports to refine their own approaches to working with these cities, targeting specific challenges and opportunities.
  • One significant challenge with deploying sustainable infrastructure solutions in cities is the vastly different time cycles used by business and government.
  • “Our experience is that building trust is critical.
  • there’s a “need for better coordination and understanding among governments, industries, and NGOs so that cities holistically plan for and build the infrastructure of tomorrow rather than create an infrastructure of mismatched components and potentially stranded assets.
  • “The aging population is the fastest-growing cohort, yet most of our cities are designed by men for young men in commerce,” he noted. How will women, children, and the elderly thrive in those cities?
  • At BSR, we know that when business engages stakeholders proactively, the insights gained will lead to more informed decision-making, more valuable collaboration, and more inspired business models.
  • The sooner meaningful engagement is at the forefront of the sustainable urban infrastructure agenda, the sooner we can hit fast-forward and have a chance at truly sustainable growth.
Janine Shea

Global Impact Investing Network - 0 views

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GroundUp Validation Socially_Responsible_Investing Impact 3BL Financing Non-Profit

shared by Janine Shea on 29 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Impact investments are investments made into companies, organizations, and funds with the intention to generate measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.
  • A rapidly growing supply of capital is seeking placement in impact investments across geographies, sectors, and asset classes, with a wide range of return expectations.
  • This investment interest is sparking the emergence of a new industry that operates in the largely uncharted area between philanthropy and a singular focus on profit-maximization.
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  • Private equity funds
    • Janine Shea
      Janine Shea on 29 Nov 12
       
      HUGE! The exact market inefficiency I've been saying (poor matching of capital supply to investment opportunities) is the considerable roadblock preventing the proliferation of sustainable development
  • Prominent family offices are actively seeking investment partnerships that can help them source, vet, and execute impact investment deals in sectors ranging from sustainable agriculture to healthcare to urban infrastructure.Private foundations are seeking to partner with investment banks and development finance institutions to make impact investments in areas related to their social missions.
  • Despite this momentum, the weakness of market mechanisms (such as rating agencies, market clearinghouses, syndication facilities, investment consultants) creates debilitating inefficiency that hampers investment. The nascent industry remains beset by inefficiencies and distortions that currently limit its impact and threaten its future trajectory: Investors are largely unable to work together effectively given a general confusion of terminology. This limits investors' ability to share knowledge and co-invest, which perpetuates inefficiency and fragmentation in the field. The absence of basic market infrastructure, like standards for measuring and benchmarking performance, constrains impact and capital flows.
  • Clients of leading private banks and pension funds are calling on their investment managers to offer impact investment options.
  • The combination of these factors - barriers to information flows and collaboration, a lack of infrastructure, and an underdeveloped ecosystem of intermediaries and services providers - threatens the evolution of the impact investing industry and, ultimately, its ability to realize its potential for social and environmental impact
Janine Shea

Strategies for Unemployed Architects | Recession & Recovery | Architectural Record - 0 views

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Customer_Segmentation unemployed architects GroundUp Validation

shared by Janine Shea on 21 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • finessing her resume and portfolio, scouring the Web for job openings, networking at full-throttle. She even printed her own business cards.
  • letter of recommendation
  • assemble their portfolio and resume immediately. The longer one waits, the more difficult the task becomes. “Do it the minute you get laid off
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  • a standout resume is vital.
  • “You need to separate yourself from the pack.”
  • Job hunters should also reach out to everyone they know—friends, former coworkers, old classmates, consultants, contractors.
  • spending up to 10 hours a day hunting for a position
  • The occasional job opening she does spot typically requires five-plus years of experience. “Getting a job is harder and harder,” she says. “There are fewer and fewer jobs.”
Janine Shea

Bootstrapping a $10M Creative Marketplace: Envato Founder Couple Collis and Cyan Ta'eed... - 0 views

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marketplace GroundUp Validation Marketing blog Social_Media

shared by Janine Shea on 29 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • For me the biggest challenge is that you are just getting your first visitors. I would go out and comment on other blogs and comment in forums to try and get people to visit my blog. When it came time to launch a new blog, we would harness traffic from the first blog to promote the second.
  • Digg during its second week of existence. That was a potent source of traffic back in the day. We have concentrated a lot of social media ever since. To do well in social media you have to build up a genuine profile. You have to get on sites and interact on sites as a real contributing user. You need to establish a network and feed in content. We did a lot of that.
  • We joined Twitter fairly early on. We built up profiles for the company as well as ourselves. I tried to think of Twitter using a 90/10 rule, meaning 10% might be something involving Envato and 90% of the time I wanted to be engaging followers with engaging content based on the topic itself.
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  • the important thing is to understand your customers. You need to know what they find useful.
  • That was because we were speaking to genuine customer demand.
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