Crowdsourced customer-buy-out of Nabaztag proposed

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I have been contacted by Emmanuel Moll – an old rowing contact, who is involved with the French movement to get customers to club togehter to buy out the management of the Nabaztag wifi rabbit toy service company.

I was wondering if you could help me with something. I recently started an initiative for the first ever crowd-funded community buy-out of a company (www.SaveNabaztag.com ).

It's a bit of a crazy initative since we are trying to raise 2M€ in 3 weeks.

However this seems to have gathered a lot of interest (160,000 hits from facebook, twitter and online press) and has an underlying political-economic message: the right for entrepreneurs to call onto public funding (i.e. more than 100 people).

(c.f. Techcrunch article: Trampoline jumps the VC ship for crowdfunding and closes a round in a fortnight)

So here's the SaveNabaztag website where you can make a pledge  (€87,000 pledged to date)

Follow Emmanuel on Twitter

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