Crowdfunding Success: Insights from Daniel Daboczy, Co-Founder of FundedByMe
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Are you ready to take your startup to the next level?
Crowdfunding could give you the much needed financial and marketing muscle. But how? Let’s learn from the Co-Founder of Sweden’s leading crowd-funding platform FundedByMe, with JV:s in Singapore, Malaysia and Dubai, Daniel Daboczy, as he is interviewed on Startup Grind fireside chat by startup coach Naimul Abd.
RSVP today and join us on the 7th of October at 4:00 PM HKT and learn how to successfully crowdfund your startup!
You have an amazing startup idea, have gotten a team around it, and are half-way through your MVP but have run out of money.
What do you do?
In this, and many similar situations, when you want to take your early-stage startup to a growth-spurt, or when you want to create a buzz around your idea and it would not hurt to get some money as well - crowdfunding could come to your rescue.
How to use crowdfunding to accelerate your startup!
Join us for the 73rd Startup Grind in Hong Kong where Daniel and our guest moderator Naimul together delve into:
Early stage funding challenges for startups
Crowdfunding versus other options
Setting up a successful crowdfunding campaign
Marketing value of a crowdfunding campaign
Good examples of startups that have used crowdfunding
Daniel is a curator of contemporary art, an entrepreneur, a father, and the CEO and co-founder of FundedByMe.com that offers a digital and global platform for financial support for startups and growth companies around the globe.
Naimul will share his perspective on the evolving entrepreneurship scene which he sees when coaching more than 500 entrepreneurs and startups every year at Coompanion Stockholm and also being an early-stage investor in impact startups.
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We will use Zoom breakout rooms for networking at the event.
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Agenda
4:00 PM: Fireside chat with Daniel Daboczy
4:30 PM: Q&A with Daniel Daboczy
4:45 PM: Virtual networking on Zoom
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Speaker
Daniel Daboczy
Daniel is a curator of contemporary art, an entrepreneur, a father, and the CEO and Co-Founder of FundedByMe.com that offers a digital and global platform for financial support for startups and growth companies around the globe.
Moderator
Naimul Abd - Coompanion Stockholm (Business Advisor)
Naimul is a business advisor at Coompanion Stockholm. He coaches more than 500 entrepreneurs / startups every year at Coompanion, mentors and speaks at startup events, and is also an impact entrepreneur and early-stage investor in startups.
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