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    By Antti Hannula on August 3rd, 2010

    Venture Bonsai Crowdfunding and Growth Platform


    Venture Bonsai is a platform for entrepreneurs to build online presence and enable them to receive funding from one or more professional or private investors as well as facilitate all the activities before and after the investment has taken place. Extensive use of web-enabled communication, reputation building and other tools offer a unique platform for investors to follow, communicate with, invest in, and participate in the development of those startups they most believe in.

    What is Crowdfunding?
    Crowdfunding is an alternateapproach to get investments for a start-up. Wikipedia denes crowdfunding as an approach to raising the capital required for a new project or enterprise by appealing to a group of people ( guratively, "the crowd") for contributions om one or many. When such an appeal is global it is mass funding. Crowdfunding is not actually a new idea, as it has been developed over the last decade mainly in the lm and music industries. Unlike traditional models which rely on large contributions from one or two institutions,crowdfunding is based on raising small sums from many people. Instead of raising 300,000 from three angels (100,000 each), you collect 10,000 from 30 private investors. Crowdfunding isnt going to replace venture capital, private equity, debt nance or stockmarkets. In many ways its an evolution of friends and family and angel models, just operating with greater transparency and on a larger scale. It may even turn out to be an essential and complementary part of the nancing tools needed to cultivate and grow new businesses.

    Copyright 2011 Venture Bonsai Oy !

    www.venturebonsai.com

    But Whats the Actual Problem?


    Number of traditional investors interested in start-ups who are looking for money in the range of 50,000 to 500,000, has decreased rapidly. It is also true that in todays world more can be done with less money (the old 5 Million euros is nowadays 500,000). Investments in this category are high risk investments with a potentially high return. But most of the companies will fail, which is one reason why traditional investors are moving (and have alreadymoved) away from this category. When alternate investment vehicles are invented to ll the gap, the traditional investors will also benet because they would now have more companies in the funnel for additional investments.

    Is Crowdfunding e Solution for this?


    A successful crowdfunding solution has to solve many problems in order to be a feasible alternative for the start-ups and investors alike. ere is an obvious need for process simplication (de-mystication) and standardization concerning documents such as Term Sheet and Shareholders Agreement. An initiative in this eld already introduces a Standardized Term Sheet acceptable by both entrepreneurs and investors. Trust and transparency are also probably some of the biggest issues. How do you create trust in the online world? How do you manage the communication with so many stakeholders? ere will most likely be new innovative solutions for all of these challenges in the near future. e change is inevitable. Additionally, private investors can invest 5,000 euros in ten startups, instead of putting 50,000 to one single company, eectively decreasing their risk as well.

    How Can Venture Bonsai Help You?


    Venture Bonsai is an initiative by a group of entrepreneurs to take action on this problem. It is a platform which helps entrepreneurs to get attention from the investors, including both the Professional Investors, High Net-Worth private individuals as well as other individuals willing to invest 5,000 or more on the growth of interesting companies. For those willing to invest money in private companies, Venture Bonsai is the most trusted and reliable place to discover, follow and invest in those companies that one believes to be most successful in the future. Versatile communication tools help all parties make this possible. If you are interested (either as an Entrepreneur, Professional Investor, High Net-Worth Individual or a Privater Non-Professional Investor), please contact us (see contact details at venturebonsai.com) and we can tell you more. See also LinkedIn Group and http://twitter.com/venturebonsai.
    Copyright 2011 Venture Bonsai Oy ! www.venturebonsai.com

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