Your marketplace startup funding options aren’t limited to bootstrapping or raising venture capital. Listen to our CEO Juho’s best tips on an increasingly popular startup funding method: crowdfunding.

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Marketplace funding: How to crowdfund your marketplace. Juho Makkonen, Marketplace Academy

Sources and further reading:

Sharetribe raises EUR 1.1 million in crowdfunding. Good News from Finland

Two-sided: Lessons from building Kickstarter with Charles Adler. Sharetribe

Platform cooperavitism. Platform Cooperativism Consortium

What are community shares? Ethex

Percentage of successfully funded Kickstarter projects as of April 2022. Statista

Crowdfunding Limit Increase Benefits Investors And Companies. Henry Yoshida, Forbes

Cycle.land: From marketplace idea to profitability in a matter of months. Juho Makkonen, Marketplace Academy

How A 'Non-Techie' Oxford Graduate Built A Booming Online Bike-Sharing Scheme. Alison Coleman, Forbes

Rinse and repeat – An interview with Daan Weddepohl. Thea Sørvig Østbye, Marketplace Academy

Crowdfunding pages of campaigns mentioned:

Ghost’s Kickstarter campaign

The Octopus Club’s Crowdcube campaign

Peerby’s OnePlanetCrowd campaign

The Marketplace Academy Podcast is hosted and narrated by Katri Antikainen.

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