Crowd Valley COO Paul Higgins presented at Innovami's event entitled 'Una nuova idea d'impresa e crowdfunding' ('A new business idea and crowdfunding') in Imola, Italy on Thursday June 13th.
Scale Up Milwaukee is an action project focused on developing the entrepreneurial capacity in Milwaukee by bringing together the policies, structures, programs and climate that foster entrepreneurship.
Scale Up Milwaukee is based on a model developed by Daniel Isenberg, founding executive director of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Projects. Isenberg has worked with entrepreneurship ecosystems abroad, including in Colombia, Brazil and Denmark, fostering policies, structures and cultures that stimulate long-term economic growth, development and prosperity through programs and workshops.
Milwaukee is the first community in the U.S. to develop an entrepreneurship program based on this model. The initiative is also backed by Governor Scott Walker and Mayor Tom Barrett as part of a bipartisan effort to grow the economy by stimulating high-growth ventures and encouraging job creation.
The long-term strategy for Scale Up Milwaukee is to create an integrated effort to simultaneously impact six domains of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Milwaukee: Culture, Policy and Leadership, Finance, Human Capital, Markets, and Supports.
Scale Up Milwaukee is an action project focused on developing the entrepreneurial capacity in Milwaukee by bringing together the policies, structures, programs and climate that foster entrepreneurship.
Scale Up Milwaukee is based on a model developed by Daniel Isenberg, founding executive director of the Babson Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Projects. Isenberg has worked with entrepreneurship ecosystems abroad, including in Colombia, Brazil and Denmark, fostering policies, structures and cultures that stimulate long-term economic growth, development and prosperity through programs and workshops.
Milwaukee is the first community in the U.S. to develop an entrepreneurship program based on this model. The initiative is also backed by Governor Scott Walker and Mayor Tom Barrett as part of a bipartisan effort to grow the economy by stimulating high-growth ventures and encouraging job creation.
The long-term strategy for Scale Up Milwaukee is to create an integrated effort to simultaneously impact six domains of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Milwaukee: Culture, Policy and Leadership, Finance, Human Capital, Markets, and Supports.
Sharecon is the asscociation for all sharing economy startups in Switzerland.
Here we want to share our definition of sharing, show you what is happening in the sharing economy in Switzerland and what Sharecon is doing to shape and build the ecosystem.
Matt Ward from Digital Catapult (CDEC)wired_sussex
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Alternative Finance Maturity Model - Nordic crowdfunding event Ronald Kleverlaan
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A presentation conducted by Mr Paul Oppenheim, Managing Director, The Plenary Group. Presented on Monday the 30th of September 2013.
• The evolution of Public Private Partnerships
• Government objectives and private sector motives
• Consortium dynamics
• The role of private capital
• Australia in a global context
The role of Institutional Investors in Corporate GovernanceDavid Doughty
Presentation given at the Challenge of change – New challenges, 25th conference of the Zagreb Stock Exchange,
11th Conference of the Fund Industry in Rovinj Croatia October 2017
Crowd Valley COO Paul Higgins facilitated a workshop on crowdfunding in Berlin on May 25th with a group of entrepreneurs, investors, and finance professionals at the fifth SDW Gründer- und Unternehmerforum conference.
Mobile World Congress Grow VC Emerging Funding ModelsGrow VC Group
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BroadcastAsia 2013: Crowd Funding, Peer-to-Peer Investing, Crowd SourcingGrow VC Group
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Grow VC Group crowdfunding presentation at founders network Grow VC Group
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Grow VC and the South East England Development AgencyGrow VC Group
Grow VC organized this startup event jointly with South East England Development Agency. To talk about Finance for Mobile and Internet Businesses.
Some of the main topics in our presentation today are:
* Developing Global Internet Businesses - Challenges and opportunities
* Web and mobile businesses: new retail business
* Go-to-market
* Challenges of funding market
* Web and mobile services funding
* Grow VC platform for Experts and funding - The first global concept
* Grow VC Local Partner examples
* Investment policy and our market position
* Would you like to manage VC money?
Grow VC presentation in CommunicAsia 2013 event in Singapore: Where Money Meets the Talent. We discuss especially about new funding models, and now to get p2p investing, crowd funding and traditional investing models to work together.
Sharecon is the asscociation for all sharing economy startups in Switzerland.
Here we want to share our definition of sharing, show you what is happening in the sharing economy in Switzerland and what Sharecon is doing to shape and build the ecosystem.
Matt Ward from Digital Catapult (CDEC)wired_sussex
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is the UK Government’s innovation agency. It has funding, resources and expertise to benefit those businesses with innovation on their agenda. Wired Sussex has got together with the TSB to offer organisations and companies working in digital, media and technology a unique opportunity to hear from the decision makers across the TSB
Alternative Finance Maturity Model - Nordic crowdfunding event Ronald Kleverlaan
Introduction into the "Alternative Finance Maturity Model" that will help governments, regulators and industry associations to build a sustainable Alternative Finance industry.
A presentation conducted by Mr Paul Oppenheim, Managing Director, The Plenary Group. Presented on Monday the 30th of September 2013.
• The evolution of Public Private Partnerships
• Government objectives and private sector motives
• Consortium dynamics
• The role of private capital
• Australia in a global context
The role of Institutional Investors in Corporate GovernanceDavid Doughty
Presentation given at the Challenge of change – New challenges, 25th conference of the Zagreb Stock Exchange,
11th Conference of the Fund Industry in Rovinj Croatia October 2017
Crowd Valley COO Paul Higgins facilitated a workshop on crowdfunding in Berlin on May 25th with a group of entrepreneurs, investors, and finance professionals at the fifth SDW Gründer- und Unternehmerforum conference.
Mobile World Congress Grow VC Emerging Funding ModelsGrow VC Group
Grow VC Group presentation about emerging funding models for Mobile World Congress 2013. Grow VC build new funding models based on peer-to-peer investing and co-investments with traditional models.
BroadcastAsia 2013: Crowd Funding, Peer-to-Peer Investing, Crowd SourcingGrow VC Group
Introduction to crowd funding, p2p investing and crowd sourcing, especially for media, broadcasting and content companies; includes practical examples. The presentation especially focus to describe models, how to get crowd funding and sourcing to work with more traditional models.
Grow VC Group crowdfunding presentation at founders network Grow VC Group
Crowdfunding presentation for founders network members in San Francisco. The presentation covers basics of crowdfunding, regulation and also Grow VC's history.
Grow VC and the South East England Development AgencyGrow VC Group
Grow VC organized this startup event jointly with South East England Development Agency. To talk about Finance for Mobile and Internet Businesses.
Some of the main topics in our presentation today are:
* Developing Global Internet Businesses - Challenges and opportunities
* Web and mobile businesses: new retail business
* Go-to-market
* Challenges of funding market
* Web and mobile services funding
* Grow VC platform for Experts and funding - The first global concept
* Grow VC Local Partner examples
* Investment policy and our market position
* Would you like to manage VC money?
Grow VC presentation in CommunicAsia 2013 event in Singapore: Where Money Meets the Talent. We discuss especially about new funding models, and now to get p2p investing, crowd funding and traditional investing models to work together.
Equity Crowdfunding - Imperial College London Apr 2013Grow VC Group
Crowd Valley co-founder, Paul Higgins' presentation on 'Equity Crowdfunding' at an Imperial College London event on April 16th 2013.
The event was part of Imperial's Best Practice Series on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Design.
Smart City Expo 2014: How to generate more innovation and improve return on i...Grow VC Group
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Global downturn raised expectations for innovation services that are not producing enough results. We explore the reasons and solutions to overcome these challenges. Solutions that can radically improve transparency, efficiency and measurability of the innovation funnel, to produce economic growth.
Related recorded short version video: https://youtu.be/kF6kjq374RQ?t=4m15s
Grow VC & The Soho Loft - Crowdfunding and Capital CreationGrow VC Group
The Soho Loft, TSL, is organizing a capital market and crowdfunding conference in Los Angeles on March 13 and 14. In this remarkable moment in history, the U.S. regulatory environment, its capital markets and the innovation that drives those markets are simultaneously on the threshold of dramatic change.
Grow VC is participating in the event panel, and Grow VC’s Co-founder Jouko Ahvenainen is speaking in the event. His presentation “Models and approach to building the new sustainable finance sector” illustrates new models for developing the finance and funding markets, and make them more effective, transparent and democratic.
Be Inspired Tour: Disruption in Mobile and FinanceGrow VC Group
Mobile Mobile Be Inspired Tour. The presentation talks how mobile is moving its 3rd era, mobile internet is the base for all services and businesses. This is also linked to a disruption in finance, where internet start to change the value chain.
Presented at the Crowdsourcing Week London Summit, October 3, 2013 by Paul Higgins of Crowdvalley. For more information, visit http://crowdsourcingweek.com.
Markus talked about trends in modern finance, the emergence and background for crowdfunding, and the manifestation of macro trends such as the demand for democracy and efficiency in the world of finance. The discussion also touched on current trends and a future outlook on crowd driven investment models.
Crowdfunding - Asset Classes and Crowd Driven ModelsGrow VC Group
Presentation held at CrowdFuture in Rome, October 27 2012. Markus talks about trends in modern finance, the emergence and background for crowdfunding, and the manifestation of macro trends such as the demand for democracy and efficiency in the world of finance. The discussion also touches on current trends and a future outlook on crowd driven investment models.
Presentation by Paul Higgins, Co-founder of Crowd Valley, for the UK Technology Strategy Board's Special Interest Group conference on the Internet of Things, 22nd November 2012.
Shared Value Initiative India connects the business and community leaders towards defining the practice of shared value in India. This initiative is committed to bringing forward the realization, understanding, adoption and implementation of the best practices for creating shared value among the companies, civil society and government organizations in India, thereby accelerating the economic and social progress towards a more equitable and sustainable world.
Roadmap to launch your crowdfunding platform: Business Model & featuresVickyKrishnan2
Renowned Crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo are the perfect examples of how to propitiously implement a crowdfunding business plan as they successfully raised huge revenues from the percentage of the funds raised for other businesses. This topic reflects a complete guide to support your efforts to set up a crowdfunding platform. For more info, Visit: https://www.agriya.com/products/donation-script
Grow VC Group presentations in Tel Aviv and OuluJouko Ahvenainen
Grow VC Group presentations for events in Tel Aviv and Oulu about new finance sector opportunities: crowdfunding, crowd investing, p2p lending and payment solutions.
Short presentation explaining how Crowd Equity Capital LLC is launching a combined crowd equity site, app and other services to serve both investors and entrepreneurs before, during and after their capital raise. This presentation is informational only and not a solicitation to make or not make any decisions to invest or raise capital.
Description about Grow VC Group, crowd investing and p2p finance, and how to manage global de-centralized organization and keep people motivated. Also some points about business vs military strategy.
Boukje.com Fast Track to Innovation (FTI)BoukjeEhlen
On Brightlands' Moneyday, Boukje.com presented several funding instruments for SMEs and Startups. This presentation covers the Horizon2020 instrument: Fast Track to Innovation (FTI)
5 Predictions for Finance, FinTech and Blockchain MarketGrow VC Group
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Blockchain and tokenization are coming to all asset classes and instrumentsGrow VC Group
Crypto finance and blockchain are in very early phase, ICOs are only the first wave. These models come to main stream, when we have more asset classes and instruments that are relevant for institutional investors and ordinary people. The history has show that technology disruption winners are typically new companies, it is hard for incumbents to adapt.
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Presentation about fintech ecosystem for new finance services, especially integrated distributed services, and how they are changing the whole finance sector and banking services.
Prifina's finance data service demo at a launch event in New York in May 2018. How people can get control back to their data and start to utilize it for their own purposes.
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- Basics of platform economy
- Value of data
- Connecting themes
- Platform economy business models
- Case: Startup Commons
- Designing platform economy business models
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2. Overview!
• Grow VC Group – innovating investing
• Crowdfunding in connected ecosystems
• Different models in the funding ecosystem
• Creating an effective framework
@paulhigginz @crowdvalley
3. Background – Grow VC!
• Global marketplace for startup funding
• Founded 2009
• “Everyone Funding Startups”
– 2012 - $35M raised
– 5,000+ startups
– 190+ countries
– Several raised rounds, first exits
@paulhigginz @crowdvalley
4. Grow VC Group!
• Launched spin-off Crowd Valley in 2012 to provide crowdfunding
infrastructure:
– Configurable platform
– Shared business networks
– Back Office financial services
• Spun out other companies providing various services to support new online
funding marketplaces
– Grow Advisors
– ChangeLab23
– Mutual Seed Fund
• Developed a portfolio through global incubation services
– 6 portfolio companies to date
@paulhigginz @crowdvalley
6. Crowdfunding must be part of existing ecosystems!
• Crowdfunding does not happen in a vacuum
• “Invest in Lines, not Dots” – venture capitalist, Mark Suster:
Images from bothsidesofthetable.com/2010/11/15/invest-in-lines-not-dots
@paulhigginz @crowdvalley
7. Finding your natural constituency!
Source: crowdsourcing.org
@paulhigginz @crowdvalley
8. Equity crowdfunding goes beyond startups!
• Expanding a mezzanine fund for Oil & Gas investments in Rio de Janeiro
• Providing liquidity for existing shareholders in high-tech companies in
Auckland
• Doctors financing R&D for new medical device companies in Sydney
• Alumni supporting their university’s entrepreneurship in Boston
• Offering investment opportunities in real estate in London
• Connecting traders of precious stones with professional investors in New
York
@paulhigginz @crowdvalley
9. Different models in the funding ecosystem!
• It is important to get different funding models to work together
– Transparent models, fair agreements and opportunities
– Market value and market dynamics
– Continuity for future funding rounds
• Different models are suitable for different endeavors
– Non-securities models
– Equity financing
– Debt models
• There can be several co-investment models; passive or active
• It is important to build co-operation with traditional investors VC, PE firms
and syndicated investor groups
@paulhigginz @crowdvalley
10. Creating an effective framework!
• Increasing demand to access the right ventures
– Impact investments
– Focus on innovation and sustainable job creation
• Crowdfunding is inherently cross-border
– Transparency and distribution via effective, online models
– An efficient framework is needed to ensure efficient and suitable models
to interact in the EU as a single market
• The impact on growth and job creation could be transformative if a more
unified European market is successfully created
– Fragmentation and bureaucracy could be the main challenges
@paulhigginz @crowdvalley