Now more than ever there’s more resources to tap into for funding your business venture and bringing your product and/or service to light. Movies, video games, comic books, boardgames, tech, blockchain, toys, innovative products , Over the years we’ve created effective product videos to help entrepreneurs, businesses and start-ups raise crowdfunding for their product a
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For every Bruce Wayne who inherits his company, there are a million Peter Parkers: bright young solopreneurs with a cool side hustle but precious little cash. So unless you’re a billionaire industrialist like Iron Man — or a long-established, all-American icon like Superman (e.g., Kellogg’s, Ford, Kraft Foods, and Levi’s) — you’re going to need startup capital.
Fortunately, crowdfunding has emerged as a popular alternative to traditional business loans for software, household products, and even comic books. For insights on how to utilize it, b. spoke with Tom Akel, CEO and publisher of Rocketship Entertainment, which prints and distributes paper editions of comics that have already proven their popularity online.
Akel, who previously oversaw MTV Comics and worked with Stan Lee and The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, launched Rocketship because he observed a gap in the market. “Publishers weren’t really taking webtoons and webcomics super seriously” despite significant followings, he says. “For many webcomic creators, they have a real one-to-one connection with their audience.”
Crowdfunding not only test-markets viability, but it also alleviates the burden of publishing costs, a make-or-break factor for developing artists.”You essentially eliminate all risk by doing this model,” Akel says.
Similarly, a product crowdfunded on platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo doesn’t need to be manufactured until consumer interest has been confirmed through real-time data. A brilliant idea can receive viral press attention without a marketing team. Plus, founders retain creative control over their vision, which isn’t always the case when VCs come aboard. No wonder crowdfunding is on an upward trend, with anticipated compound annual growth of 14.7% over the next four years. |
No wonder crowdfunding is on an upward trend, with anticipated compound annual growth of 14.7% over the next four years.
Akel explains that crowdfunding can help entrepreneurs with out-of-the-box ideas gain traction in almost any industry. He cited leading toy companies like Hasbroand Lego that have found success with their in-house crowdfunding projects.
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