Bill Griffin

Thanks Derek. Appreciated.

Great idea. Simple and worthwhile.

Thanks so much for your kind words Adam.

Looks great - in the Uk we call the warehouse 'Cash and Carry' and we go there a lot but I'd much rather do it by phone (especially as the stores are always located in the middle of nowhere)

Looks slick. Good luck guys. Good market to see some clever new brands operating in.

Great idea nicely executed

I've just signed up and really look forward to getting my first mail. Like lots of people I'm trying to filter my emails down to really quality providers and I'm sure you guys will be on that list.

This is incredibly cool and I hope it works out for you.

While I was writing that this tweet came in which I hope sums up what we are going to achieve "Have a wish? Head to @crowdwish to see it happen. Great online site to empower happiness. #bestofthenet".

Not the latter, we want to empower people to achieve things that they wouldn't be able to as individuals and in some doing helping them achieve things that would otherwise just be ideas; there are dozens of business models you could attach to that - direct transactions, affiliate deals, judicious data leverage, research and insight services, having brands pay to make wishes happen as an...

...philosophically we believe that much of social media is ephemera - a tweet, a like, a comment; much of it doesn't add up too much; we see ourselves as a 'genie' style service that does real things in the real world; crystallising people's hopes, dreams, ambitions and desires and doing something real and 3 dimensional with them, not least to galvanise people into continuing that journey...

The nature of the 'voting' mechanic means that really dumb ones don't ever reach the top - people seem to have a good intuitive sense of how to get the best from the site. We believe that a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step; we don't claim to magically make all the wishes come true, we just take a positive step in the right direction...

We've had a great reaction to the site via twitter, are building an app and can legitimately claim to be the most user orientated business out there - we don't tell people what they can have, we ask them to tell us, then take action against those desires - whatever they may be (providing they're legal obvs)

We've been live for a month and in that time, we've helped people to learn about wine, contact their heroes, get assistance with public speaking, dance, cook in a professional kitchen, find a bone marrow donor, talk about mental illness, get a discount at TopShop, buy a cheaper iPhone and a whole bunch of other things.

We work on the principle that the more people want things, the more likely those things are to manifest. Unlike a Groupon, or, say, Kickstarter, model where a certain number of 'backers' are required to create an action, we make things happen every single day. These actions can be anything - a discount on a product, a new experience, a cause you believe in, advice you need, a service you...

Thanks Ryan, I'm Bill Griffin, the founder of Crowdwish. Please feel free to ask me anything about the site.

Hi, I'm Bill the founder of www.crowdwish.com