Podcast appearances and mentions of kate drane

Kate Drane from Techstars shares the startup accelerator program – Techstars For Life. Listen to the full episode here. Communities are changing the way we do business. Discover a concrete framework for building powerful, productive communities and integrating them into your business. My new book, ‘People Powered: How communities can supercharge your business, brand, and […]

Kate Drane from Techstars (and previously Indiegogo) comes on to talk crowdfunding, supporting startups, expanding access to funding and information, innovation growth, craft beer, and more.

Kate Drane is Indiegogo’s Senior Director of Outreach for Tech and Hardware. Her favorite thing to do is democratize access to resources, and considers herself as a VC of the people. Since starting at Indiegogo in July 2012, she's empowered more than 500 entrepreneurs to collectively raise over $80M on the Indiegogo platform, including Canary, Misfit, and Skulpt. For more information on Indiegogo go to www.indiegogo.com or connect with Kata on Twitter @katedrane. We met at the Industry conference in Cleveland http://indsum.com/. This episode is from the archive. You can connect at www.laurapowers.net. You can also find her on facebook via Write Hot and follow her on twitter @thatlaurapowers.

Over Coffee® is on hiatus through the Christmas holidays.  We'll be rebroadcasting some of our most popular episodes of 2017.  Thank you for listening–and be sure to be with us for our coverage of CES 2018! What if you wanted to fund your dream project through Indiegogo? At CES 2017's Eureka Park™, we met Kate Drane, who is Indiegogo's Senior Director of Outreach for Tech and Hardware.  Kate is also an entrepreneur: she co-founded craft brewery mobile canning service The Can Van in 2011.   Today, she serves as their Chief Marketing Officer. At the time we spoke, Indiegogo was just launching its "Equity Offerings" program.  Kate explained how that would work, as well as sharing the story of Indiegogo, and her journey as an entrepreneur.   She also offered some guidelines for running a successful crowdfunding campaign! On this edition of Over Coffee® you'll hear: How Indiegogo came into being; How to find out more about their “Equity Offerings” program; Kate's own experience, with her crowdfunding campaign for her small business; The steps to a successful crowdfunding campaign; The factor that enables campaigns to raise the most money; The two social-media channels with which Kate has seen the highest conversion rate; What NOT to do, in a crowdfunding campaign; Some of Kate's favorite experiences since coming to work for Indiegogo, almost five years ago. Stand by for our coverage of CES 2018, which happens in Las Vegas, January 9th through 12th! Meanwhile, are you a startup with a highly innovative idea?  As in, one that will make a major impact on the market?   According to CES' website, Eureka Park  applications are still open!   Here's the link to their criteria.  Good luck, and maybe we'll see you there!  

Kate Drane is Indiegogo’s Senior Director of Outreach for Tech and Hardware. Her favorite thing to do is democratize access to resources, and considers herself as a VC of the people. Since starting at Indiegogo in July 2012, she's empowered more than 500 entrepreneurs to collectively raise over $80M on the Indiegogo platform, including Canary, Misfit, and Skulpt. For more information on Indiegogo go to www.indiegogo.com or connect with Kata on Twitter @katedrane. We met at the Industry conference in Cleveland http://indsum.com/.You can connect at www.laurapowers.net. You can also find her on facebook via and follow her on twitter @thatlaurapowers.

Kate Drane is Indiegogo’s Senior Director of Outreach for Tech and Hardware. Her favorite thing to do is democratize access to resources, and considers herself as a VC of the people. Since starting at Indiegogo in July 2012, she's empowered more than 500 entrepreneurs to collectively raise over $80M on the Indiegogo platform, including Canary, Misfit, and Skulpt. For more information on Indiegogo go to www.indiegogo.com or connect with Kata on Twitter @katedrane. We met at the Industry conference in Cleveland http://indsum.com/.You can connect at www.laurapowers.net. You can also find her on facebook via and follow her on twitter @thatlaurapowers.

Kate Drane is Indiegogo’s Senior Director of Outreach for Tech and Hardware. Her favorite thing to do is democratize access to resources, and considers herself as a VC of the people. Since starting at Indiegogo in July 2012, she's empowered more than 500 entrepreneurs to collectively raise over $80M on the Indiegogo platform, including Canary, Misfit, and Skulpt. For more information on Indiegogo go to www.indiegogo.com or connect with Kata on Twitter @katedrane. We met at the Industry conference in Cleveland http://indsum.com/.You can connect at www.laurapowers.net. You can also find her on facebook via Write Hot and follow her on twitter @thatlaurapowers. Laura also is now taking pre-orders for her new book Supernatural Survival Guide! You can get order the book and get great perks at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/supernatural-survival-guide-book/x/2967887#/. Today's podcast is brought to you by audible.com - get a FREE audiobook download and 30-day free trial atwww.audibletrial.com/writehot. Over 180,000 titles to choose from for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or mp3 player.

Kate Drane is Indiegogo’s Senior Director of Outreach for Tech and Hardware. Her favorite thing to do is democratize access to resources, and considers herself as a VC of the people. Since starting at Indiegogo in July 2012, she's empowered more than 500 entrepreneurs to collectively raise over $80M on the Indiegogo platform, including Canary, Misfit, and Skulpt. For more information on Indiegogo go to www.indiegogo.com or connect with Kata on Twitter @katedrane. We met at the Industry conference in Cleveland http://indsum.com/. For more information on Laura and her work you can go to her website www.powershour.biz and you can find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers. Laura also is now taking pre-orders for her new book Supernatural Survival Guide! You can get order the book and get great perks at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/supernatural-survival-guide-book/x/2967887#/.

A great podcast with the Senior Director of Tech Outreach at Indiegogo.