December 11, 2011

If finding money for your business has been a challenge, you may need to take a look at the emerging world of crowdfunding. Part social media and part funding, there are new websites popping up every day that make it easy for entrepreneurs to pitch crowdfunding communities to support their ventures. Two entrepreneurs we met ran fruitful campaigns on the website Kickstarter.

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• Drewry News Network 5 months ago

  

  to be honest, I never had a clue what "crowd-funding" was all about. thank you so much, for bringing this topic to light, and passing the torch of inspiration :-)http://www.DrewryNewsNetwork.com

  • Hsiao-Ho Hsu 5 months ago

    

    agree

• Roger Davis 5 months ago

  

  The feature on "kickstarter" was deceptive and an overstated "commercial" for what is essentially a for-profit business. The reality is that to produce an "attractive video" to post can be more expensive then the pledge amount sought. Also, Kickstarter offers "0" help and the business must find ways to attract people to their website site. If you do get funded both Kickstarter and Amazon Payments take a nice chunk your proceeds as servicing fee. This program is overstated and "Your Business" should not have colored it with such bias without at least discussing the fact that must projects don't reach their pledge goal and then are simply dropped!

  • Gary Leysen 5 months ago

    

    Sounds like your project didn't get funded.