Lecture

Crowdfunding Campaign Creation

Graph Chat

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.

Description

This lecture covers the process of creating a crowdfunding campaign using wemakeit.com, emphasizing the importance of responsibility for claims and rewards, unique features of the platform, and guidelines for project submission. It also explores the benefits of crowdfunding for marketing and market testing, highlighting the success rates and standards upheld by wemakeit. The presentation includes practical steps such as naming the project, setting funding goals, and engaging with the online tool for campaign development. Crowdfunding is presented as an optional but valuable learning opportunity for students interested in entrepreneurship and startup strategies.

Official source

Related concepts (32)

Marketing

Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emphasize in advertising; operation of advertising campaigns; attendance at trade shows and public events; design of products and packaging attractive to buyers; defining the terms of sale, such as price, discounts, warranty, and return policy; product placement in media or

Digital marketing

Digital marketing is the component of marketing that uses the Internet and online-based digital technologies such as desktop computers, mobile phones and other digital media and platforms to promote products and services. Its development during the 1990s and 2000s changed the way brands and businesses use technology for marketing.

Marketing communications

Marketing Communications (MC, marcom(s), marcomm(s) or just simply communications) refers to the use of different marketing channels and tools in combination. Marketing communication channels focus on how businesses communicate a message to its desired market, or the market in general. It is also in charge of the internal communications of the organization. Marketing communication tools include advertising, personal selling, direct marketing, sponsorship, communication, public relations, social media, customer journey and promotion.

Business marketing

Business marketing is a marketing practice of individuals or organizations (including commercial businesses, governments, and institutions). It allows them to sell products or services to other companies or organizations that resell them, use them in their products or services, or use them to support their works. It is a way to promote business and improve profit too. Business marketing is also known as industrial marketing or business-to-business (B2B) marketing.

Startup company

A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that do not intend to go public, startups are new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo founder. At the beginning, startups face high uncertainty and have high rates of failure, but a minority of them do go on to become successful and influential.

Related lectures (35)

Entrepreneurial Marketing: Strategy & Segmentation MOOC: Launching New Ventures

Explores marketing strategy for startups, emphasizing customer understanding and competitive advantage.

Using Slideshare: VentureMOOC Introduction

Covers the use of Slideshare for creating and sharing presentations.

Untitled

Launching New Ventures - Outlook

Explores entrepreneurship, early observations, perspectives, funding stages, and business expansion.