{"id":36599,"date":"2023-10-20T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/ipledg-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:45:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:45:04","slug":"ipledg-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/ipledg-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"iPledg &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"110\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/l_ipledg---bryan-vardis.gif\" alt=\"Bryan Vadas\" title=\"Bryan Vadas\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Crowdsourcing has been a big success for several Australian businesses, but the relatively newer, broader crowd-funding trend has yet to make it locally. Bryan Vadas and Andy Tompkins are attempting to capture that opportunity with iPledg, a crowd-funding site that allows organisations or individuals to fund any project they want.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any commercial, creative or charitable venture can post a project and then the community decides whether to fund it or not. Users might seek to raise money to make an iPhone app or help out a charity with some new equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vadas says there\u2019s a gap emerging at the bottom end of the funding ladder and the pair founded the business after noticing too many good ideas were going to waste.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCrowd funding does not involve investment, losing a share in one&#8217;s creative endeavours, or taking a loan. It is also a low risk way to test the viability of projects at early funding stages,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s still a problem in educating the market, Vadas says, although the message is well received once it\u2019s understood.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we are able to explain what it is and what we do, we have had governments, universities, industry bodies, businesses, and individuals all embrace the concept,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowdsourcing has been a big success for several Australian businesses, but the relatively newer, broader crowd-funding trend has yet to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}