Kickstarter: using the crowd to test and fund ideas
Not sure whether you have come across the crowd funding website, Kickstarter. Founded in the USA in 2009 it provides a channel to raise funds for creative projects. As of yesterday, it had raised over USD507 million for 37,065 projects out of just under 89,000 launched projects.
Read MoreAlexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas
I spent Monday and Tuesday at the wonderful Village Underground in Shoreditch for a two day masterclass led by Alexander Osterwalder on the development of the Business Model Canvas and how best to use it.
Read MoreHappy Birthday Make Happy!
This month Make Happy turned the grand old age of 3. They say all good things come in threes, like Back to the Future films, members of Destiny’s Child, Fifty Shades of Grey books (ahem not that we’ve read them)…so it got us to thinking about putting together some top three lists of our favourite things on the internet. So here they are in all their threesome glory:
Read MoreTransform Your Business
WOW! transformation, a talent development consulting firm that helps optimize the return on your talent investment has a brilliant blog that is worth keeping a close eye on for insights into improving your business. We follow it regularly but this month’s post on employee engagement really caught our eye.
Read MoreBrain Pickings
Brain Pickings, the insightful thoughts of Maria Popova, writer of Wired UK and The Atlantic is currently our favourite blog and we have been long standing supporters of her interesting pieces. Her latest piece, How to Write with Style: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Keys to the Power of the Written Word is certainly worth a read:
Read MoreKickstart Your Hidden Potential
We were delighted to hear that scattered amongst the blockbusters nominated for the 85th Academy Awards are three Kickstarter financed short films. Inocente, Kings Point and Buzkashi Boys managed to raise more that $90,000 from 558 backers on the funding platform that helps all kinds of creative projects become a reality.
Read MoreBloomsbury Flowers in The Guardian!
We were thrilled to see past clients, Bloomsbury Flowers, feature in a fascinating article and accompanying video on The Guardian this week.
Read MoreMerry Christmas from all at Make Happy
So 2012 is nearly over. And what a year it’s been.
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