Join the Validation and Crowdfunding masterclass by StartupCircles and Arno Smit the founder of FundedbyMe. The masterclass will give you the tools and methods to validate your business idea - to check if your ideas can be a business and whether you should reiterate or pivot. We will also talk about the power of crowdfunding to validate and fund your idea.
It will give you the necessary knowledge and tools to measure the most important metrics. This masterclass will save you months and years of pain and frustration of potential customers not buying your product or using your app.
FundedByMe provides equity crowdfunding opportunities for entrepreneurs and investment opportunities for private investors. They have raised more than €60 million from over 500 companies world wide and got listed on the stock market.
CEO - FundedbyMe
Arno Smit is the founder of FundedbyMe. FundedByMe provides equity crowdfunding opportunities for entrepreneurs and investment opportunities for private investors. They have raised more than €60 million from over 500 companies world wide and got listed on the stock market. Arno is a developer, designer and entrepreneur born in Namibia but living in Sweden.
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Arno Smit is the founder of FundedbyMe. FundedByMe provides equity crowdfunding opportunities for entrepreneurs and investment opportunities for private investors. They have raised more than €60 million from over 500 companies world wide and got listed on the stock market.
Arno is a developer, designer and entrepreneur born in Namibia but living in Sweden.
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Sandras Phiri is an award-winning entrepreneur and international speaker. He is the director for Startup Grind South Africa, which educates, inspires and connects entrepreneurs and he is the CEO and founder of Africa Trust Academy, a productivity and high performance consulting company. Sandras has worked with over 25 organisations and has lectured at over 15 universities. His work has taken him to 20 countries including UK, Bali, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Ghana, Mozambique, India, Switzerland and Silicon Valley USA. Some of the organisations served include Sanlam, FNB, Sekunjalo, General Electric, Big Brother Africa, Standard Bank, McKinsey & Co, Foschini Group, African Union, Mars Africa and Zoona.
He has worked in banking, mobile payments, insurance, unit trust and IT in South Africa and Zambia and has run his own businesses in IT, entertainment and education. Sandras has a degree in Computer Science and an MBA from UCT. He has shared stages with Facebook co-founder Dustin Maskovitch, Youtube co-founder Steve Chen, Basecamp founder Jason Fried, Guy Kawasaki, Steve Blank and Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School.
He has been named one of the 15 tech people to follow in 2018. He has been featured on CNBC Africa and has been a mentor on SABC 1 TV programme Making Moves. He has also been featured in Destiny Man, Glamour and GSB Breakwater Magazines, News24 Entrepreneur and on many radio and TV stations. Sandras’ academic paper on leadership was published in an international leadership journal.
