Early this year we announced the retirement of our director, Nick Lewis, and the April departure of our board member Jessica Venning Bryan with the arrival of her baby. After running a three month process to find a new director, we’re […]
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We’ve partnered with Māori Women Development Inc (MWDI) to create a new way for communities to fund indigenous and regional entrepreneurs. We believe supporting tangata whenua to access new forms of capital using platforms and tools that enable them to […]
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There’s a spate of blogs on the highs and lows of 2017. Instead of covering a whole spectrum of what we’ve learned, I’d like to share the biggest realisation I had in the PledgeMe office. Last year I had a […]
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One of our longstanding board members, Nick Lewis, retired in December 2017. Here’s our farewell to him, and the launch of our hunt for a new director written by PledgeMe co-founder Anna Guenther. The fantastic Nick Lewis came into my […]
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As many of you know, PledgeMe has launched in Australia! With our experience in New Zealand crowdfunding (across project, equity and lending campaigns) and the recent changes to equity legislation here in Australia, we decided to cross the ditch. I’ve […]
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We’ve been watching the proposed equity crowdfunding legislation changes in Australia for a while. In 2015, off the back of our second equity crowdfunding campaign, I had over 20 meetings in three days in Australia chatting to people in […]
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In July 2013, I was asked to come and talk about innovation for the local Wellington City Council. At the time I joked with the organiser that I didn’t actually like the word innovation, I liked the idea of doing […]
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Lending can seem pretty scary, so we’ve decided to go back to the basics in this series and explain everything you need to know. We started with a brief history of lending and how lending works. Second up: how do […]
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You’ve probably seen over the last month that we’ve refreshed our fees for campaigners and pledgers (for the better, we believe!). One of the changes we’ve made is to the cost of our preparation programme for PledgeMe.Equity and PledgeMe.Lend campaigners, […]
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Some campaigns start off super strong, and meet their goal in days (or in some cases, even minutes). Think Yeastie Boys, ParrotDog (really, anything craft beer related). But, those are extreme cases and definitely not the normal. Often, you’ll make […]
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