Indiegogo for Entrepreneurs — Raise money for your idea and find your first customers

Seems to be a new focus for Indiegogo but quite a natural tangent! It is broken down into 4 categories: - Start a Campaign Take the plunge with our guided campaign-creation tool. It’s free, and you can easily start now and finish later. - Experts Directory Take your idea further with these experienced companies recommended by Indiegogo campaigners and staff. - Education Center Find everything you need for a successful campaign in one convenient location. - Indiegogo vs Kickstarter Learn about the benefits of choosing Indiegogo for your idea. See our detailed breakdown. And you can also download their guide

I've been working with Indiegogo to beta test their marketplace and I have to say... I'm absolutely BLOWN AWAY by the direction this company is going. Partnership with arrow. Equity crowdfunding. Helping entrepreneurs. InDemand. Marketplace. And a lot more. It's absolutely incredible the speed you guys are moving at and the effectiveness you're operating at. Specifically, been working with Jake D., Shane C., Anders L., and now Jake W. Absolute rockstars. You should be incredibly proud @gogoslava, keep up the incredible work. You're the future Amazon in my eyes. One of your biggest fans, -Mikey

Wonder if this works for pre-existing products?

Incredible. Just incredible. This is a really helpful and important development for crowdfunding.

I see this as another turning point for entrepreneurship. Very excited about this!

I launched a product on Indiegogo Marketplace and they helped with every step along the way. I even made multiple suggestions to improve their platform and within a week they ACTUALLY implemented the changes, live on the whole site. With such a huge company, that's called SPEED and listening to your users. IGG is gonna be a big big winner in the future, I'm calling this right now. Someone buy me a taco in 5 years when this comes to be 🔮. PS This is all after launching 2 successful Kickstarters... They've officially won me over :P

Pros:

Provides A-Z solution for launching a crowdfunding campaign. Great support team, very innovative, they move incredibly quickly

Cons:

As much as I want to criticize (to help improve the product), I honestly can't >.<

Looking good! Just downloaded your guide :)

So Upcoming on steroids? @rrhoover @nickabouzeid :P

This is great and very helpful. 👍

So now we just need to have ideas? Was expecting this some time ago.

Do you take equity ?

I like it. going to launch very soon too :-)

With Oco Cameras we did all three steps: crowdfunding, InDemand and now Marketplace. The Indiegogo team is amazing - easy to reach, always ready to help (kudos to John Vaskis). @gogoslava I think Marketplace can become the next Shopify: inventory management, integrations, order processing from other platforms. It will be a very natural move for entrepreneurs like us to stay and use Indiegogo as the main backend platform for orders management and payments. Right now Shopify is trying to build something like this (and it helps a lot), but I think you have more power to keep your customers. Or maybe you can simply integrate with them or with Shipstation. Cause order processing is really frustrating. And I hope you will allow customers to choose order quantity for products on Marketplace.

Awesome arch to the story of crowdfunding - the product looks great.

@gogoslava Is the crowd-funding model different for entrepreneur? I have yet to check this build of Indiegogo. But for Passionboard, I have different concept on crowdfunding for startups. Love to share if you're interested.

This is friggin' awesome, would be interested in how this pans out and the direction Indiegogo are heading in.

Very excited to see this!

Yeah, that's great. Crowdfunding develops... New features, new horizons. It's simply cool.

This is a very good tool. It helps many teenagers and amateur people develop their inventions.

I had a successful lesson (failure) through Indiegogo a few years back. This definitely would've helped. Awesome show, great job @gogoslava