This sounds a bit like teaching your nana to suck eggs, but if you want support you’re going to have to virtually love each and every one of your pledgers. You need to make them feel special, integral to your […]
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November 16, 2011
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Anna
Why some ideas succeed, and others don’t
It’s a tricky topic — why some ideas succeed beyond all expectations, and others just fizzle out. I think some of it is really just timing, but there are some interesting theories out there that are really worth having […]
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November 5, 2011
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Anna
Project: New Kids on the Block
The latest and greatest on PledgeMe is a project for the youth of the world by the youth of the world — pretty cool, eh? Dylan and the crew at Wanted FM are revamping their website, taking it from a […]
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September 24, 2011
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Anna
Interview with Kate from St. Rupertsberg
Apart from name dropping us in interviews, and being quite loud in her praise, Kate from St. Rupertsberg loves us so much she took the time to fill out the questionnaire below: What did you like about pledgeme? It’s the first crowd funding website […]
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September 17, 2011
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Anna
This video explains it ALL!
Crowdfunding can be a hard thing to explain – but I think this video explains the thinking behind it all. The project creator is the crazy person who just starts dancing. Once someone joins you’ve got your first pledger (and […]
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September 11, 2011
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Anna
Bring back the art of vinyl – kiwi styles!
Daily Beats is reviving the lost art of vinyl – with the musical help of their friends Sora Shima, Second Gear Grind, Katie Thompson, Yebiisu, and last but not least Dick Dynamite and the Doppelgängers. How cool would it be to get […]
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September 4, 2011
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What is crowdfunding?
So – what is crowdfunding? Whenever I try to explain what Camilo, Reuben and I are doing, I get the blank stare. ‘Crowdsourcing? Crowdfunding? What’s that?‘ First off, here’s the ‘all knowing’ wiki definition: Crowd funding (sometimes called crowd […]
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August 31, 2011
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Anna
Meet the team
Camilo, our technical guru, hails from the fair climes of Brazil (seriously, fairer than Wellington on a sunny day!). He’s crazy, passionate, loves to get to know people, and in his own words “not the typical IT guy”. He has […]
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