{"id":48696,"date":"2016-10-12T23:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T22:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/?p=48696"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T12:35:42","slug":"peoples-champion-finalist-2016-fanfinders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/peoples-champion-finalist-2016-fanfinders\/","title":{"rendered":"People\u2019s Champion finalist 2016: FanFinders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Start-up name: <\/strong>FanFinders<br>\n<strong>Founders:&nbsp;<\/strong>Alec Dobbie, Raphael Marsh, and Nick Hadfield<br>\n<strong>Started in: <\/strong>December 2013<strong><br>\nBased in:<\/strong> London<br>\n<strong>Business description: <\/strong>Connecting businesses with their target demographic<\/p>\n<h3>Shortlisted category:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/lean-start-up-of-the-year-2016-meet-the-finalists\/\">Lean Start-up of the Year&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The FanFinders&nbsp;story:<\/h3>\n<p>Offering brands &ldquo;genuine connections and unparalleled consumer insight&rdquo; through its network of membership clubs, FanFinders was launched in December 2013 by Alec Dobbie, Raphael Marsh, and Nick Hadfield.<\/p>\n<p>Referred to by the founders as &ldquo;the perfect value exchange&rdquo;, consumers join relevant groups within the site where brands then engage with them.<\/p>\n<p>Promising never to sell its&nbsp;members&rsquo; data, FanFinders say users control and choose which brands and promotion to redeem and engage with, making such connections &ldquo;truly genuine&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Once such club is Your Baby Club, which it has claimed is now the fastest growing parenting club in the UK &ndash;&nbsp;signing up 50,000 new members per month.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception, Your Baby Club has worked with the likes of Ella&rsquo;s Kitchen, Nuby, Mam UK, Summer Infant, Asda, Mothercare, Babies R Us and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Your Baby Club has also received praised from <em>The Mail on Sunday<\/em>, <em>Mother &amp; Baby<\/em> magazine and was featured as website of the Week in <em>The Sun<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Why FanFinders made our shortlist:<\/h3>\n<p>Entirely bootstrapped, the start-up expects to generate a seven-figure turnover for 2016 and signed up one million members to Your Baby Club in just two and a half years, a feat that took some rivals nearly a decade.<\/p>\n<h3>Where to find out more about fan finders:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Website: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanfinders.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.fanfinders.com<\/a><br>\n<strong>Twitter:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FanFinders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twitter.com\/FanFinders<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start-up name: FanFinders Founders:&nbsp;Alec Dobbie, Raphael Marsh, and Nick Hadfield Started in: December 2013 Based in: London Business description: Connecting businesses with their target demographic Shortlisted category: Lean Start-up of the Year&nbsp; The FanFinders&nbsp;story: Offering brands &ldquo;genuine connections and unparalleled consumer insight&rdquo; through its network of membership clubs, FanFinders was launched in December 2013 by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64422,"featured_media":48753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finalists-2016"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>People\u2019s Champion finalist 2016: FanFinders - 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