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Crowd-funding in the kitchen: non-traditional financing and funding for your food-related project Small business owners have found it difficult to access tradition financing from banks over the past few years. An increasing number of them, including chefs and value added producers, have turned toward crowd funding to put together the capital necessary to start or expand their businesses. From food trucks to fine dining, a variety of different models have been successfully employed. What’s worked? What’s flopped? We’ll discuss with our colleagues who have gotten help from the crowd to fund their projects. Whether by Kickstarter or pre-sale of discounted goods or gift cards, crowd funding builds on the familiar concept of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and takes it to the next level. Moderated by Gregory Heller, Seattle Chefs Collaborative. Presenters include Tim Crosby and Arno Hesse, both of Slow Money, chef Thierry Rautureau of Luc and Rover’s restaurants, and Jared Stoneberger of the Lark Cookbook Project.

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Crowd Funding In The Kitchen

Gregory Heller, Seattle Chefs CollaborativeJared Stoneberg, Lark CookbookThierry Rautureau, Rovers & Luc

Tim Crosby, SlowMoney NWArno Hesse, SlowMoney NorCal

HungrySeattle.comTwitter @HungrySeattle#NatlSum12

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Who’s In The Room?

• Producer?

• Restaurant?

• Chef?

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• Have you ever backed a project on:

• Kickstarter?

• Indie GoGo?

• Other Mechanism?

Who’s In The Room?

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Funding Sites

Borrowing Sites

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Chefs Collaborative National SummitOct 1, 2012

Tim CrosbyDirector, Slow Money NW

Food Investments

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Since 2009170 enterprises, $20 Million

14 Local Chapters

7 businesses secured investments of just under $4 million

Direct investments of loans, equity, lease-to-own equipment purchases

Business development and technical assistance

34 WA and OR based enterprises received business development / technical assistance, connections

Farmer Reserve Fund

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– A bank, insurance company, registered investment company, business development company, or small business investment company;

– An employee benefit plan, within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, if a bank, insurance company, or registered investment adviser makes the investment decisions, or if the plan has total assets in excess of $5 million;

– A charitable organization, corporation, or partnership with assets exceeding $5 million; – A director, executive officer, or general partner of the company selling the securities; – A business in which all the equity owners are accredited investors; – A natural person who has individual net worth, or joint net worth with the person’s spouse,

that exceeds $1 million at the time of the purchase, excluding the value of the primary residence of such person;

– A natural person with income exceeding $200,000 in each of the two most recent years or joint income with a spouse exceeding $300,000 for those years and a reasonable expectation of the same income level in the current year; or

– A trust with assets in excess of $5 million, not formed to acquire the securities offered, whose purchases a sophisticated person makes.

Source: www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm

Who is an investor?• Accredited Investors

–Angels, VCs; Banks, Credit Unions, Foundations

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Who is an investor?• Non Accredited Investors

–Wall Street, Mutual Funds, Credit Unions, IRAs

–Emerging Community Capital efforts• Crowdfunding• Investment Clubs

–Regulated vehicle; pools funds• Local Investment Opportunity Networks

–Non-regulated; networks ‘friends’

–Customers

–Friends, Families (and Fools)

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What is an Investment?

Bootstrap Market

Credit Cards

Friends,Family CSA Pre-PayGifts,

GrantsPurchase,

Trade

Social Return (SROI)

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Capital Continuum

Bootstrap Market

Credit Cards

Friends,Family

Lower riskLower reward

Higher riskHigher reward

Debt SubDebt

Revenue/Royalty

ConvertibleDebt Equity

CSA Pre-PayGifts,Grants

Purchase,Trade

Social Return (SROI)

Financial Return (ROI)

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Capital Continuum

Bootstrap Market

Credit Cards

Friends,Family

Lower riskLower reward

Higher riskHigher reward

Debt SubDebt

Revenue/Royalty

ConvertibleDebt Equity

| Personal |

| Investment Clubs, LIONs |

CSA Pre-PayGifts,Grants

Purchase,Trade

| Customers |

| Accreds, Angels | | VCs |

Social Return (SROI)

Financial Return (ROI)

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Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding space

Credit Cards

Friends,Family CSA Pre-PayGifts,

GrantsPurchase,

Trade

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Crowdfunding Regulation

Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act)6 bills in one act, main parts due next year

- Don’t hold your breath

Of Interest:1.Regulated crowdfunding

1. $10,000 or 10% of income per investor, whichever is less2.Raise number of shareholders before forced to go

public3.Advertise to solicit investors

- Due now

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Other Non-Bank OptionsDirect Public Offerings

–Small Company Offering Registration (SCOR)• All except Alabama (under consideration), Delaware, District of Columbia (has no securities laws), Florida, Hawaii, and Nebraska.

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Farmer Reserve Fund

Credit Union

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Farmer Reserve Fund

Credit Union

Risk

Reduced LeveragedDonation

SROI

Tech Assistance Program

20% default rate for first round

$10K deposit creates $50K loan(s)

Impact InvestorChef

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Direct Option

Credit Union

ChefRestaurant

Risk

Reduced

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Tim Crosbytimcrosby@comcast.net

slowmoneynw.org206.300.9860

Thank you

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Thierry Rautureau

• Funded Luc through pre-sale to ~220 customers

http://TheChefInTheHat.com

Twitter: @thechefinthehat

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Some Numbers2361 Projects

177 Live40% Success Rate

$9.64 Million Raised

Over 250 “Food” Projects(no specific stats available)

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All Projects

#8

$9.64 Million Successfully Raised for

Food Projects

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Successful Projects

>50% Of Successful Food Projects Raise between $1k

and $10k

#7

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Unsuccessful Projects

#9

The Ones That Fail, Fail

Big (<20% of

funding goal)

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Jared Stoneberg

LarkCookbook.com@LarkCookbookLarkSeattle.com

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Lark - Chef John Sundstrom

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larkcookbook.com@larkcookbooklarkseattle.com

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I was told there would be a path to

CROWDFUNDINGsomewhere around here

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Resources

• KickStarter.com Blog

• FinanceForFood.com forthcoming book: Raising Dough

• SlowMoney.org

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http://HungrySeattle.comTwitter @HungrySeattle

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