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[bruce]

Hey.

As an idea, how about creating a couple of different landing/splash
page site/apps.

Every "scalable" process wants to have a way of capturing per launch
data on potential customers. Kickstarter campaigns want the same
functinoality as well. We can build out a couple of apps, release them
as Open Source, build out the brand name of the group.

In looking, there are a number of static pages that people have
released, and a couple of ruby kinds of apps for this, but nothing in
the Open Source arena that I've seen that is sophisticated.

Thoughts/comments

[DaveCampbell]

i'm somewhere between intrigued and interested, but i'm not sure i fully understand what you are proposing or what you mean about scalable processes, launches, etc.

i half know ruby / ror and would be interested in doing something in that environment.

feel free to provide details here or to me directly.

[bruce]

Hi Dave.

Got ya' eh!

Here's the issue as I see it with the whole Crowd Funding of projects.
The vast majority of the tech related projects (ie, those that are
software/hardware related) are started by guys who want to be the next
Pebble/Instagram/etc). This means, they want to scale to have lots of
funding donors, which means the funding campaign has to scale to have
serious numbers of people, or rather serious amounts of funding.

The questions then, is how the heck does one get their? How does a
project grow to where it's funding process has a much greater
probability of success? What are the elements of this kind of
successful process?

I contend it's much like most things. The successful project is
directly related to the amount of pre marketing, or prep work that the
project puts into the process. And this work/effort has to happen
prior to launching the project on the Crowd Funding platform
(KickStarter/IndieGoGo/etc..). If you do the work beforehand, the
fundraising platform launch is then simply the collection point of the
process, and you've greatly improved your chance of success.

So, how do you get there?

I believe you can get there, or part of the way there, by having a
platform much like the funding platforms.

The platform would allow the user to create their "section" for their
project. The platform would then allow the owner to then tap into the
people with the 1000s of FB, or twiiter followers. This process would
be a "marketplace" of sorts where the project owner could
talk/convince/trade/offer/whatever with the people who "own" the
traffic, in order to build up potential traffic to project's prep
site.

This process allows the project to start to get a feel of who's
willing to donate/fund the project, and at what reward level. At the
same time, the platform provides different strategies/tools/contacts
to further enhance the success of the project.

The platform lets the project owner track all of this, keep tabs on
the different aspects of managing the overall prep process for the
project. In effect, the platform becomes a project management tool for
bringing into focus the bits/pieces required to have a shot a having a
successful funding drive.

There's a great deal more, but this gives an idea of what's possible.

And what I've described, doesn't exist as far as I can tell.
Furthermore, if it were built as a neutral platform, you'd get people
who want to create projects, which can be funded on any platform. At
that point, we don't care. The prep platform is simply there to get
the project to the point of being much better prepared to succeed.

As far as growth of the platform. As it gets projects, it will have
more data on what succeeds, and what doesn't, which then makes the
future projects more successful, which then pulls in more resources,
etc.. If becomes a self growing feedback loop!

Thoughts/Comments

-bruce
bado...@gmail.com






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