It took me a while to write another blog on that - well - Christmas break and all that jingle....
After some days of prooving our votings - the FIDOR bank came to the conclusion, that we do not hat enough valid votings. Main reason: we had too many from abroad. Well - we did know that. But also thought it would tell, that crowd funding shoulden't have any boarder. Another argument came on the collaborators of the FIDOR bank startnext.de. Fidor decided we don't have enough supporters on the startnext platform. Which is suspicious to them. For us it was already a hassle to get the people registered in order to vote for us, so that we didn't concentrate on the next step, which would be having the focus on startnext. At the end, every argument from their side would have a refutation from our side - the rules of the game are not that clear. We guess because of that the FIDOR bank offert us a booby prize of 500 €. And yes, we took it.
The rule of the startnext funding is, if you manage to get the money you need, you get the funding. If not, you don't get money at all (and it goes back to the supporters). They don't want, that people realize project without money, which is a good one and very much preferable. But a magazin for instance could wait and try to collect the money within the next month. We have a fixed date where the dance performance has to be ready to go on stage. With money to produce it or not. So in any case, we'll have to produce it and in it's worst case with no money - or ok, with 500 € from the FIDOR bank. Yeah.
As I said, next step is the startnext funding. I'll update you on that one.
Happy new year to everyone - be moved, move, move on - all year long.
j.
