About Us
Crowdfunding Creativity
Our website gives everyone the chance to make their ideas happen (from anywhere the world). It is also a place for people who want to be a part of something new and exciting. A place to help fund creativity!
We provide a risk free way for people to raise money to fund their creative projects and ideas. Here, project creators (from all over the world) can showcase their ideas to a wider audience, generate interest and garner the support of the “crowd” – the online community.
Project owners submit their idea and invite people to pledge money to help get it off the ground. This is not an investment. The project owner retains full ownership and control of the idea. What financial backers receive instead are project based pledge rewards: experiences, products, acknowledgments and accreditations.
Users upload their project, set a fundraising target and a deadline for when they have to raise it by. If they don’t reach the target by the deadline, the money goes back to the backers. "All or Nothing" crowdfunding enables project owners to be confident they will have the budget to complete their project and fulfill their obligations when they are successful. Backers know if the target funding is not reached their money will be returned (minus Paypal's fees).
The ideas that we showcase come from all sorts of people and varying fields such as music, film, fashion, technology, publishing, and more. The motives vary, the budgets vary, the nature of the projects vary, but the one thing that remains constant is the creativity behind them.
Why not have a browse through some of these extraordinary projects!
Tarkan Ahmet
Founder and UK MD
Tarkan Ahmet
Tarkan started Student Jet Packs the moment that he left Durham University with his First Class Honours in Business. Following the fantastic success that he enjoyed with his first business Tarkan was asked to be a regular lecturer at LSE and The Princes Trust.
Tarkan’s previous employment includes teaching with Teach First and consultancy with Ernst & Young. He is now the UK MD of PleaseFund.Us and regularly presents new projects on an international arena trying to boost the creative ideas that are listed on PleaseFund.Us.
Drop Tarkan an e-mail: Tarkan@PleaseFund.Us
James Bailey
Co-Founder
James Bailey
James founded Surf Berbere, the leading Moroccan surf school, four years ago. Since then, he has worked on the Princes Club Agadir, a multi-purpose sporting resort, and Easy Surf Trips, an international surf travel company.
In 2011, James and Tarkan started working on PleaseFund.Us together. With years of experience guiding small businesses through the difficult early start up stages, both James and Tarkan felt that they have the perfect experience to help others obtain the micro-finance that they need to get their ideas off the ground.
Drop James an e-mail: Jb@PleaseFund.Us
Ben Hamilton
Community Manager
Ben Hamilton
Ben previously worked in the art department on various feature films, including 'Resistance' (an adoption of the Owen Sheers Novel, starring Michael Sheen), Ben now focuses his creativity on helping project owners taylor their projects to the best possible standard.
His role as Community Manager essentially allows for him to inject his own creativity into other people's ideas.
Fancy following some of Ben's thoughts @Ben_Hamilton_
Drop Ben an e-mail: Ben@PleaseFund.Us
Oliver Harris
Marketing and Business Development
Oliver Harris
Mr Oliver Harris has seven years experience of project management at Nova Scotia. Since then has worked developing relationships in the industry and runs his own marketing consultancy firm Dextra Associates.
Oliver is continually working on bringing new relationships to PleaseFund.Us and helping the company grow into a world leader in crowd financing.
Fancy following some of Oli's thoughts @OHChopper
Drop Oli an e-mail: Oli@PleaseFund.Us
Steve Beyatte
Head Web Geek
Steve Beyatte
Steve started life as swell loving surfer bum and has carried on in the manner that he set out. He spends a fair old chunk of his time on the sunny coast of california and the rest of it working the depths of the tech world.
He is our key to the kingdom as without him we are lost. If you can see something is broken, it may not be his fault but he can definitely fix it. If you have some amazing suggestions on how to improve PleaseFund.Us you can drop him a line and if you fancy visiting him then drop him a message when you are in Santa Barbara!
Drop Steve an e-mail: Steve@PleaseFund.Us
