The Loop Issue # 12
Keeping you in the loop with Sharesies.
Our Vision: We want someone with $50 to have the same investment opportunities as someone with $50,000.

Blast off 🚀
Today we achieved another milestone — 5,000 active customers. In our original business model we thought it would take at least 6 months to reach this target, not just a couple.
We also now have around $1.5m in funds under management. That’s $1.5m invested that would mostly have been consumed.
Since our last Loop, our key metrics have gone ↑↑↑:
- 8,614 followers on Facebook (↑38.5%)
- 5,092 active Sharesies customers (↑88.5%) 🎉
Over the next few weeks we will be focussed on:
- Marketing Sharesies.
- Building our next feature release.
- Our investment raise.
Hustling
Product progress
- Moved to open beta — meaning people can sign up to Sharesies from www.sharesies.com
- Released our performance tracking feature. It was amazing that around 10% of our customers wrote to us saying how much they love this feature when it was released. Was great recognition for the team 🙌

Media
- We were on One News — that was exciting…with one slight challenge (read on…).
- On the cover of NZ Herald after chatting with Frances Cook
- 5:25 am interview on Newstalk ZB
- Idealog featured us twice with an Q&A with Sonya & about our recent trip to Hong Kong.
- Also featured in the Dominion Post and on Stuff.
Sharing the Sharesies story at events. Thanks to:
- The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) for letting us share our startup journey with your staff.
- Women in Super
- Massey University Investment Club
- Victoria University Investment Club
- First Cut Ventures event
- NZSA (New Zealand Shareholders Association)

Driving up content = driving up leads
- Right, time to start investing
- #Fundfact: Economies of scale
- Product Update
- What’s an investment horizon?
- My first time investing — #9
- We moved out of private beta!
Asks
Can we please get your help with:
- Talk Sharesies! Bring it up with family, friends & colleagues. Share the word, investing is now accessible. Oh and send them to www.sharesies.com to sign up ;)
- If you know any people in media that we could speak to, to share the Sharesies word, or events coming up that we can speak at, please let me know.
Challenges / struggles
So within a few hours of being on One News we got hundreds of customers. Wasn’t completely smooth sailing though as the data feed we use to verify people’s drivers licenses conveniently went down just after we were featured on air and was down for a couple of hours. You can imagine….😱. However, we got messaging into our product asap and all the customers were awesome about it. Good old Murphy’s law!
Shout outs & thank you!
To NZ media who have profiled us 🙌. To those of you who haven’t just yet, give me a buzz 📞.
Please reach out if you have any questions or comments.
Cheers from the Sharesies team,
Brooke, Sonya, Leighton, Martyn, Richard, Nat & Ben

