Crowdfunding Navigator™ | Will the crowd back your idea?

The Innovation Map™ helped us decide what needs to happen next.

Sometimes that next step needs funding.

But before asking:

How much money can we raise?

There is another question worth asking:

Does anybody actually want what we are building?

That is the thinking behind Crowdfunding Navigator™.

Crowdfunding can raise money.

But used at the right moment, it can do something equally valuable:

validate demand before serious investment.

Put an idea in front of the crowd and the response becomes evidence.

Do people understand it?

Does the proposition connect?

Will they support it?

Will they actually put money behind it?

That takes us naturally back to Research Matters.

Because instinct may start the journey, but evidence should increasingly influence where it goes next.

Crowdfunding can turn opinions into behaviour.

And behaviour tells you considerably more than someone politely saying:

“Great idea.”

Of course, that only works if the idea is ready to be shown.

The proposition needs to be clear.

The product needs enough substance to demonstrate.

The story needs to land.

And you need to be prepared for the answer the crowd gives you.

Sometimes that answer may be:

Not yet.

That can be every bit as valuable as a successful campaign if it prevents significantly greater investment being made on assumption alone.

Crowdfunding is not a shortcut.

It is a choice.

The Crowdfunding Navigator™ helps you decide whether it is the right choice, what preparation it requires and how to approach a campaign with purpose.

Explore Crowdfunding Navigator™ in the incub8ideas Resource Hub.

Next in the journey: Funding The Journey™.

Because crowdfunding may be one route forward.

It is rarely the only one.

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