Crowdfunding Using KickStarter

 

Oxford Hills SCORE is  pleased to offer a new workshop to small businesses in the community who wish to understand what is involved in using KickStarter to raise funds for a project to create anything you dream up that can be shared with others including a new business or new products.  You will learn first-hand, from an existing KickStarter user, what this means and what the KickStarter rules require for your project including clear end goals.   

This workshop will cover:

• Choosing a captivating project that will excite the community to help with your funding
• How to make an eye-catching video to describe your project and show off your prototypes
• Why generating a project timeline/deadline and budget are critical to your success
• The need to include updates as you make progress on your project
• A description of the rewards that backers will receive at the time of completion

 Our instructors are Jayson Lobozzo and Nick Kline from DemerBox™ in Portland, Maine, who, along with founder Jim Demer, successfully funded their business using KickStarter this past Fall with more than $83,000 raised.  They build rugged, wireless, waterproof, Bluetooth,
great sounding boom boxes. Check out their KickStarter video on https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/demerbox/demerbox-rugged-wireless-boomboxes prior to attending this workshop!

 

Jason Lobozzo, Nick Kline and James Demer from DemerBox

 James Demer is DemerBox’s President and a location audio engineer.  He has worked on shows like NBC’s Survivor and Discovery Channel’s Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls. He mixed sound for the Academy Award winning film Bowling for Columbine, and for Winter’s Bone, which was nominated for four Academy Awards.  He is an avid sound engineer with in-depth knowledge of the circuits and sound that set the DemerBox apart.

Jayson Lobozzo, Vice-President, is an independent video producer and cameraman.  His ideal job is directing and producing advertisements for DemerBox all day long.  In the meantime, he
is the de facto shop manager, and ensures that every DemerBox is assembled to our exacting quality standards. 

Nick Kline is a second-year law student at the University of Maine.  In the summer of 2014, he was awarded the Bride Family Entrepreneurial Fellowship to work with DemerBox, where, in-between sweeping the floors and packaging customer orders, he helped coordinate the KickStarter campaign for DemerBox. 

Please plan to register by selecting the "Register Now" button, no later than Friday, April 17th to hold a seat for this no cost workshop to be held on Tuesday, April 21^st from 11:30 – 1:00 pm at the Norway town offices on Danforth Street in Norway.  A light lunch will be provided.  We encourage returning Veterans of the Armed Services to attend this valuable workshop. 

Please contact me with any questions about the workshop or registration.

 

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