The CouchTycoon Mission
- >> We would like to offer ready-made venture capital funding at a very early stage
- >> We want to be an alternative solution for squeezed out credit cards of startup founders
- >> Everyone should be able to participate in the great inventions of internet startups from the first moment without the necessity of business angel- or tech knowledge
- >> Everyone should be able to buy recoverable art from great artists instead of 'supermarket arts'
- >> We want to revive the look and feel of vintage company shares our grandfathers owned - in a new way
Web entrepreneurs should be able to raise money for their ventures as they are used to work -
on the internet, easily and publicly.
Because most of the promising start-ups out there have the same problem. They have a good idea but they don´t have the money to demonstrate the potential of their start-up. And of course most of the well known venture capitalists want to see a business plan or even a proof of concept. But how? With no bucks?! CouchTycoon.net wants to help start-ups to raise their first bucks to get the ball rolling as a crowd funded venture. Read more about us.
The CouchTycoon at TechCrunch Berlin
Submitted by BlueHorseshoe on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 19:24.
It's awesome! Mike Butcher from TechCrunch UK invited me to attend TechCrunch Berlin as panelist. Actually I just applied for a pitch to explain CouchTycoon to the German start-up scene. But the question if I would like to participate the panel exeeded all expectations. The fact to be invited to talk about topics like:
CouchTycoon on eHub
Submitted by BlueHorseshoe on Fri, 05/15/2009 - 10:02.
CouchTycoon is covered on eHub. Thank you Emily for the article about our tiny start-up financing community!
CouchTycoon launches new product 'Venture Poster'
Submitted by BlueHorseshoe on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 00:10.
We are proud to be able to announce the new CouchTycoon.net product called 'Venture Poster'.
During the last months we have been working really hard to set up a product which we hope you will love. As you probably know the CouchTycoon.net startup started with the idea of public startup financing. And we were testing some different approaches during our private beta stage with hundreds of nice and insightfully users. Thank you so much btw!!
Finally we came to several important conclusions. One of them is, that it is almost impossible to start an innovative idea from outside Silicon Valley. And so we decided to go Silicon Valley - for now (follow the CouchTycoon Roadshow on our blog). Seriously, there were a lot more conclusions we figured out concerning the 'crowdfunding' product. Finally the result of all our conclusions is the Venture Poster. A really awesome product that reminds of vintage company stocks our grandfather owned. It is a handmade, signed and numbered silkscreen poster - designed by gig poster artists you probably know from flatstock festivals. Venture Posters will be issued by CouchTycoon.net in limited editions of 200 at regular intervals.
