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SUMMARY:Launching New Ventures Hangout: Do’s & Don’t’s of Crowdfundi
 ng 
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DESCRIPTION:Johannes Gees (WeMakeIt)\, James McBennett (Timbertail)\, Eric
  Migicovsky (Pebble)\, Prof. Chris Tucci (EPFL) and Nettra Pan (EPFL)\nJoi
 n us on the 10th of June\, 2015 at 4:30pm CET for an exciting panel on how
  to make the most of your crowdfunding campaign with Chris Tucci (EPFL)\, 
 Eric Migicovsky (Pebble)\, and James McBennett (Timbertail).\nThe panel wi
 ll be streamed live on Youtube. It can be viewed below or at go.epfl.ch/pa
 nel3LNV15 between 4:30pm and 5:30pm CET/CAT. Send us your questions in rea
 l time via twitter using the hashtag #LNV15\, or send them to us in advanc
 e through Coursera (you must be registered for the course).\nAt some point
  in the entrepreneur's journey you will have to convince investors about t
 he potential of your venture. Today\, many entrepreneurs can use crowdfund
 ing platforms for more visibility (especially among early adopters!). Crow
 dfunding can also increase sales\, and cash flow... essential for producti
 on or further tests and survival... Some entrepreneurs see crowdfunding as
  a risk-free way to test initial reception of their idea! But is crowdfund
 ing really risk-free? Even after you raise money\, how do you keep the cro
 wd from turning into an angry mob?\nAs part of the EPFL College of Managem
 ent of Technology's new MOOC\, Launching New Ventures\, we will host a fre
 e\, online discussion with three experts and our CDM Professor Chris Tucci
  to talk about the Do's and Don't's of Crowdfunding.\nOur speakers:Chris T
 ucci (@CLTucci)\nChris is currently Dean of the College of Management of T
 echnology at EPFL\, where he holds the Chair in Corporate Strategy & Innov
 ation. In addition to publishing in many of the highest ranked journals in
  the field of management\, he won Best Paper of 2012 for his article “Cr
 owdsourcing as a solution to distant search” in the Academy of Managemen
 t Review\, which is ranked the #1 scholarly journal in the categories of M
 anagement and Business. In 2013\, he was elected to the Board of Governors
  of the Academy of Management\, the largest professional society devoted t
 o management research and teaching. Chris is among the most highly-cited p
 rofessors in the field of innovation management and brings more than 30 ye
 ars of experience working on cutting edge technologies and innovation. Bef
 ore earning his PhD\, he was an industrial computer scientist involved in 
 developing Internet protocols.Johannes Gees (@JohannesGees)\nJohannes Gees
  is an artist and entrepreneur.  He is the founder and CEO of wemakeit.co
 m\, Switzerland’s leading crowdfunding platform.\nAfter studying social 
 anthroplogy and history at the University of Zurich\, Johannes Gees starte
 d working as a picture editor for news agencies. He then became a self-tau
 ght graphic designer and art director\, opening his own studio and working
  for large advertisting networks.  In 1997 he joined Swiss publishing hou
 se Tamedia as an internet developer. In 2000 he founded johannesgees.com\,
  a production company both for his own art projects and clients such as Ex
 po.01/02.\, the Swiss government\, Credit Suisse\, BMW etc. In 2004 he cof
 ounded the short-film platform www.agent-provocateur.ch.\nJohannes Gees\, 
 who had been working off and on as a painter\, photographer and musician s
 ince his youth\, became a full-time artist in 2001\, when his collaborativ
 e media art installation "hellomrpresident" hit the WEF in Davos (www.joha
 nnesgees.com). hellomrpresident was followed by "the hello world project" 
 (2003\, Geneva/New York/ Rio de Janeiro/Bombay) and a series of public art
  installations\, both in Europe an overseas.Eric Migicovsky (@ericmigi)\nE
 ric Migicovsky is the founder and CEO of Pebble Technology\, the company b
 ehind the Pebble\, Pebble Steel\, Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel smartw
 atches for iPhone and Android. While studying engineering at the Universit
 y of Waterloo\, Eric began building smartwatches alongside a group of frie
 nds and created the first model\, InPulse. In April 2012\, Eric and his te
 am launched the second generation\, Pebble\, on the Kickstarter crowdfundi
 ng platform\, where it became the most successful crowdfunded project in K
 ickstarter’s history. And in February 2015\, Eric and his team launched 
 two more watches\, Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel\, on Kickstarter\, wh
 ich became the fastest funded project in Kickstarter history.James McBenne
 tt (@mcbennett)\nJames is guided by a generalist curiosity and great enthu
 siasm for doing interesting projects. He is a designer who works primarily
  in wood selling his products at www.timbertail.com. Passionate about the 
 intersection of entrepreneurship and design\, he studied architecture at U
 niversity College Dublin and the Architectural Association in London while
  taking additional courses in entrepreneurship at the London School of Eco
 nomics and University of Cambridge. He successfully launched a product on 
 Kickstarter called This Stool Rocks that recieved coverage in Wired\, Forb
 es and Fast Company. After partipating in Startup Chile where he was nomin
 ated for their Highway Programme\, he accepted an invitation to judge futu
 re applicants. Follow him on Pinterest\, Twitter\, Facebook and Linkedin.U
 seful resources for joining the discussion\n		Start tweeting with the hash
 tag #LNV15. When you use the phrase "#LNV15" in your Twitter message\, it 
 will be publshed on this page. Doing so allows you to view all messages re
 lated to "LNV15" (our course's name is "Launching New Venture 2015"). This
  transforms Twitter into a virtual conference room for this event. You can
  also follow discussions linked to a paticular subject\, e.g. #growthhacki
 ng. More on how to use a hashtag here and here.\n	\n		The more people tuni
 ng in\, the more interesting the discussion. Share this page with your net
 work! And register here: http://go.epfl.ch/panel3LNV15\n	\n		 Facebook ev
 ent: here\n	\n		 Find our other videos on Youtube here and here.\n	\n		 
 Like us on Facebook at EPFL Entrepreneurship and follow us on Twitter @ven
 tureMOOC\n
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