Below you will find an article in which I write from my heart about my experience with funding my own business. That funding has been running for a few weeks now and I am grateful for everyone who gives us their trust and gets on board. Things are moving fast, but there is still room for investment. So read my story, join us and invest with me. Check fundingeyevestor.com.
Of course I already knew it, but now I feel it again in every fiber of my body and mind. Public funding for your own company and your own plans is the best thing there is. And perhaps also the toughest.
How do I experience that? We are in the middle of it, with Eyevestor we are working on a public investment round. Unfortunately, this is not possible via our own platform because, as a regulated crowdfunding service provider, we are supervised by the AFM.
This means that we cannot use our own possibilities and features, but have to start from scratch. We built our own funding site fundingeyevestor.com. And we immediately experience for ourselves how much value we actually add with our platform: Not only the digital foundation, the automatic construction of the register, validation of the organizational and capital structure and the compliant transactions. But also everything around it: onboarding, guidance, follow-up, timing, tooling.
I'm not talking about the content, your story and how you present it. As an entrepreneur, you are also responsible for that on Eyevestor.
But we do have to conclude various contracts with parties for website, hosting, domain registration, mail provider, payment services, etc. We deliver this to our customers as one integrated package. And now? Now we have to arrange it all ourselves. Including the frustration of your own bank-payment service provider who uses his freedom of contract at the very last minute. Going live? Just wait a minute.
It is also a reality check. What we do is still allowed - thanks to the so-called "prospectus exemption". I'll write about that another time. There are differences that the investor often does not know.
However you do the funding, it is perhaps the most intense process you can go through as an entrepreneur. You make yourself vulnerable. You share your plan. You ask for trust. And every time someone invests, you feel that one emotion: gratitude. Gratitude that people come with you. Looking up with you. That they see your mission and stand behind it with money. Because money still has something magical, you get time more easily than money.
And that in the meantime, while you have not yet raised all the necessary money, you already feel that you have to make it happen. Because there are people who believe in you. You also grow as a team, because together you do everything you can to achieve a concrete goal.
We have chosen a theme that says it all for us:
"We are looking up – because we are going next level."
And that's exactly what we're going to do. As a market creator, we have learned lessons that no one can take away from us. We have a solid, compliant, accessible and widely deployed platform. We are unique: there is no comparable platform in the market. We have helped many great companies to grow further such as Fish Tales, Grutto, SharePeople, Kadir, European Sleeper, Whooler, LABFRESH and many more. That is really the best part of our profession to contribute to making the dreams of other entrepreneurs come true. And no, that didn't always go smoothly, because especially as a pioneer you have a lot of obstacles to overcome. But that is precisely why we are going next level. We know better than anyone what it takes to bring funding and engagement together.
Now we are ready to scale up. With the right partners (quite a search), the right focus and an increasingly facilitated route for companies that not only want to raise up to €5 million and that also want to bind their community and make it an ambassador. That gap in the market? We are going to close that, on to another league.
But first this: We are live. We build. And you can participate.
👉 Visit www.fundingeyevestor.com
📈 Invest with us – from €1,000
💡 Belief in ownership. Believe in the large funding- and engagement-gap that still needs to be filled by companies with growth potential that you believe in. And share in that growth. Share in next-level Sharefunding®, because that's where we're going.