Crowdfunding has become a popular way to raise funds for projects through online platforms, allowing individuals to donate small amounts. It benefits projects by providing feedback, volunteer support, and public debate in addition to funds. Crowdfunding levels hierarchies by directly connecting those who need funds with potential donors. There are over 400 crowdfunding platforms worldwide supporting various types of projects, including creative works, charities, and development initiatives.
This document provides an overview of crowdfunding practices and principles. It begins by defining crowdfunding as using an open online call to obtain financial resources in the form of donations or rewards in exchange for supporting specific initiatives. The document then discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of crowdfunding. It outlines the typical steps in a crowdfunding campaign and describes the roles of crowdfunding platforms, fundraisers, and investors. The document emphasizes that crowdfunding platforms operate as multisided platforms that facilitate interactions between different user groups.
Crowdfunding involves raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically over the Internet. There are three main types: donation-based, rewards-based, and equity-based. Rewards-based crowdfunding is commonly used to fund artistic and creative projects through online platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Notable successful rewards campaigns include the Pebble smartwatch and the Veronica Mars movie. Crowdfunding is also used for charitable causes like medical expenses as well as research projects that may be underfunded through traditional means. While many campaigns succeed, overall success rates are still only around 40-50%.
Visions on the future of Crowdfunding in EuropeGijsbert Koren
Visions on the Future of Crowdfunding in Europe, published by FR Prospektiv (France), twintangibles (Italy), ikosom (Germany) and Douw&Koren (the Netherlands).
List of CrowdFunding Websites and much more!Ari Massoudi
List of Crowd Funding Websites & Websites to Find & Connect with Angel Investors and Venture Capital-Private Equity firms + list of Outsourcing, Crowdsourcing and Open-Innovation Websites
This document provides visions and perspectives on the future of crowdfunding in Europe from the publishers and crowdfunding platforms. The publishers envision civic crowdfunding becoming more prominent and a harmonized regulatory framework being established at the European level. The platforms foresee crowdfunding becoming a mainstream source of financing, more reliable crowdfunding data and market analysis being available, and crowdfunding growing into a new model for nonprofit fundraising. Overall the document discusses the continued growth and increasing importance of crowdfunding in Europe.
The document proposes a campaign to increase membership and engagement on the Maroc.nl website. Currently, 60% of members have not logged in for over a year. The campaign aims to attract new members, activate dormant members, and reach 350,000 unique visitors per month. The main strategy involves promotional videos, online advertisements, local paper advertising, and billboard advertising with an overarching theme of Dutch-Moroccan juxtaposition. The proposals provide concepts and details for each part of the advertising strategy and campaign.
CrowdNuke was established as a dedicated portal for news and tips all related to crowdfunding, a dedicated portal for crowdfunding related resources. In the expansion CrowdNuke, decided to include all possible networking features which is required to crowdfunding marketing & promotions. CrowdNuke community is all for every crowdfunding campaigner to use at leisure but to meet like-minded people and promote your crowdfunding campaign, will give you the ability to network world-wide with those with the same passion about crowdfunding. http://www.crowdnuke.com
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This document provides an overview of crowdfunding practices and principles. It begins by defining crowdfunding as using an open online call to obtain financial resources in the form of donations or rewards in exchange for supporting specific initiatives. The document then discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages of crowdfunding. It outlines the typical steps in a crowdfunding campaign and describes the roles of crowdfunding platforms, fundraisers, and investors. The document emphasizes that crowdfunding platforms operate as multisided platforms that facilitate interactions between different user groups.
Crowdfunding involves raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically over the Internet. There are three main types: donation-based, rewards-based, and equity-based. Rewards-based crowdfunding is commonly used to fund artistic and creative projects through online platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Notable successful rewards campaigns include the Pebble smartwatch and the Veronica Mars movie. Crowdfunding is also used for charitable causes like medical expenses as well as research projects that may be underfunded through traditional means. While many campaigns succeed, overall success rates are still only around 40-50%.
Visions on the future of Crowdfunding in EuropeGijsbert Koren
Visions on the Future of Crowdfunding in Europe, published by FR Prospektiv (France), twintangibles (Italy), ikosom (Germany) and Douw&Koren (the Netherlands).
List of CrowdFunding Websites and much more!Ari Massoudi
List of Crowd Funding Websites & Websites to Find & Connect with Angel Investors and Venture Capital-Private Equity firms + list of Outsourcing, Crowdsourcing and Open-Innovation Websites
This document provides visions and perspectives on the future of crowdfunding in Europe from the publishers and crowdfunding platforms. The publishers envision civic crowdfunding becoming more prominent and a harmonized regulatory framework being established at the European level. The platforms foresee crowdfunding becoming a mainstream source of financing, more reliable crowdfunding data and market analysis being available, and crowdfunding growing into a new model for nonprofit fundraising. Overall the document discusses the continued growth and increasing importance of crowdfunding in Europe.
The document proposes a campaign to increase membership and engagement on the Maroc.nl website. Currently, 60% of members have not logged in for over a year. The campaign aims to attract new members, activate dormant members, and reach 350,000 unique visitors per month. The main strategy involves promotional videos, online advertisements, local paper advertising, and billboard advertising with an overarching theme of Dutch-Moroccan juxtaposition. The proposals provide concepts and details for each part of the advertising strategy and campaign.
CrowdNuke was established as a dedicated portal for news and tips all related to crowdfunding, a dedicated portal for crowdfunding related resources. In the expansion CrowdNuke, decided to include all possible networking features which is required to crowdfunding marketing & promotions. CrowdNuke community is all for every crowdfunding campaigner to use at leisure but to meet like-minded people and promote your crowdfunding campaign, will give you the ability to network world-wide with those with the same passion about crowdfunding. http://www.crowdnuke.com
Universal Crowd Funding provide you the platform in India to make your projects into any domain with creative ideas and Build a solo Moto for better tomorrow!!
Crowdfunding - Will it work in India? Samir Bhatia
Samir Bhatia, Founder and CEO of SMECorner.com tackles an interesting topics - crowdfunding. He talks about the concept and examines whether this novel idea will take a strong footing in the emerging Indian Market.
OOMI Crowdfunding
Here's What You Don't Know About Fundraising That Could Save You Time, Energy and Money
How 3 Crowdfunding Platforms are Changing the Paradigm
http://www.oomifunds.org/
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This document defines crowdfunding and discusses its benefits and drawbacks. Crowdfunding is raising money from a large number of people typically online. Benefits include fast financing with no fees, marketing, feedback, and testing ideas. Drawbacks include a large time commitment, fees of 8-12%, high failure rates, and potential damage to reputation if projects fail. The document provides tips for successful crowdfunding such as understanding the process, creating a plan and pitch, securing early pledges, and communicating with investors. It also lists popular crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
This document discusses crowdsourcing and how it drives innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. It provides examples of historical prizes that motivated people to solve problems. It then discusses how challenges can capture public imagination, generate favorable opinions of sponsors, and create communities to solve real problems. Challenges lead people to invest substantial time and resources developing solutions. The document also discusses how crowdsourcing synergizes with social media and provides examples of how organizations use crowdsourcing.
Zum Einstieg in die Diskussion zum Thema "Crowdfunding und Open Innovation" beim Open Innovation Kongress in Karlsruhe am 3.12.2014 habe ich die Teilnehmer kurz in das Thema Crowdfunding eingeführt.
http://gumpelmaier.net/2014/11/30/open-innovation-und-crowdfunding-in-karlsruhe/
Presentation given on Feb 24/2011 at CSI in Toronto to Charities and Non-Profits on the topics of Social Media and Crowdfunding. Attention was paid to Fundchange as a new crowdfunding initiative in Canada sponsored by TELUS.
El documento presenta un libro sobre cómo las empresas pueden ganar el Momento Cero de la Verdad (ZMOT), que es el momento en que los consumidores buscan y exploran información sobre marcas y productos antes de tomar una decisión de compra. El libro analiza cómo ha cambiado el proceso de toma de decisiones de los consumidores en la era digital y ofrece consejos sobre cómo las empresas pueden participar en el ZMOT para satisfacer mejor las necesidades de los consumidores y ganar su lealtad.
Wef global informationtechnology_report_2014Silvia Cardona
The Global Information Technology Report 2014 examines the rewards and risks of big data. It features the latest Networked Readiness Index rankings based on data from 148 economies. Several chapters discuss how organizations can leverage big data through improved data management, policies that balance risks and rewards, and building trust through regulation. Overall, the report advises that both public and private sectors will need to adapt to make sense of and obtain value from the vast amount of new data being created.
The document provides guidance on structuring an effective QR code marketing campaign. It outlines 10 rules for using QR codes, including choosing the appropriate QR code type, customizing the code, ensuring visibility and size, and directing the code to mobile-optimized content. The document also provides examples of both bad and good QR code campaigns, highlighting mistakes to avoid and best practices to follow. The overall purpose is to educate on properly designing and implementing a QR code campaign.
The document discusses how organizations can use social media to become more open. It describes three models of open organizations - organic, centralized, and coordinated - based on how information and decisions are distributed. The organic model develops spontaneously through employee initiatives, while the centralized model gives management strict control. The coordinated model allows decentralization with guidelines. The document advocates analyzing existing openness and finding the right balance between openness, control, and coordination when developing social media strategies.
The document discusses how mobile phones are transforming Africa. It describes how mobile phones have become essential devices across the continent, improving financial inclusion and helping work around infrastructure problems. Innovations like mobile money services have disrupted banking by allowing digital financial transactions without bank accounts. Mobile phones are also transforming agriculture, healthcare, and increasing transparency in politics. Entrepreneurs have created mobile applications that help farmers access market information, verify authenticity of medicines, and monitor political violence.
This document provides an overview of the 23 companies selected as Technology Pioneers for 2013 by the World Economic Forum. The pioneers are developing innovative solutions across several fields including information technology, telecommunications, energy/environment, and life sciences. Some key trends among the pioneers are solutions to address climate change and sustainability issues; technologies that simplify machine interfaces and adapt to users; and approaches that make advanced tech more affordable and accessible. The document profiles each pioneer company and the problems they are working to solve through technological innovation.
Risk and Responsibility in a Hyperconnected World assesses cyber resilience and the impact of cyberattacks. It examines necessary action areas, analyzes response readiness through interviews and surveys, and sets out three alternative future scenarios. The report finds that cyberattacks pose strategic risks and could slow innovation worth $1-21 trillion. While large companies acknowledge interdependence, most lack mature cyber risk management processes. The report concludes collaborative action is needed across sectors to build cyber capabilities and develop a framework for participants to enhance resilience. It proposes a 14-point roadmap to facilitate cooperation.
This document discusses crowdfunding and provides an overview of its history, types, advantages, disadvantages, opportunities, and risks. Specifically, it notes that crowdfunding has grown significantly since the 2008 financial crisis as a way for entrepreneurs and projects to access funding outside of traditional channels. There are four main types of crowdfunding: donation-based, reward-based, lending-based, and equity-based. The advantages include accessing early-stage funding and feedback while the disadvantages include the risk of not meeting fundraising goals and lack of privacy. The opportunities are that good ideas can access cash through popularity while the risks include the possibility of failure and lack of vetting compared to traditional investors.
I have explained what Crowdfunding is all about. It also includes some of the success stories of entrepreneur who use crowdfunding as their fund raiser.
PluribusFund presented at the Washington, DC Economic Partnership's (WDCEP) & Small Business Administration's (SBA) Alternative Sources of Funding event held on September 26, 2013. PluribusFund, a new DC-based startup, is a Crowdfunding Portal designed to channel investment in local DC Metro projects that strengthen and enrich our communities.
In this presentation, we are going to introduce Crowdfunding from different aspects. Some websites that cater to a Crowdfunding environment will also be listed. Moreover, we will go through a statistical analysis of the Crowdfunding success story.
For more information please visit http;//crowdfundingbank.com
This document provides an executive summary of a study analyzing crowdfunding in the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). Four organizations - the Aspen Institute Prague, Creative Industry Forum, Res Publica Foundation, and Budapest Observatory - collaborated on the study. They organized meetings in each country to gather data through interviews with local crowdfunding experts. The study found that while crowdfunding totals are not large, the amounts raised have been growing. Local platforms primarily fund arts and social projects, while technology startups use global platforms like Kickstarter. No country comprehensively regulates crowdfunding, and taxation of funds raised is unclear. The study concludes by recommending the establishment
The document lists and summarizes 17 different crowdfunding websites, including Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, GoFundMe, and Funding Circle. It provides a brief 1-2 sentence description of each platform and its purpose, such as allowing users to fund creative projects, raise money for charitable causes, or connect small businesses with local investors through crowdfunding. The overall document serves as a resource for comparing different crowdfunding options.
Crowdfunding - Will it work in India? Samir Bhatia
Samir Bhatia, Founder and CEO of SMECorner.com tackles an interesting topics - crowdfunding. He talks about the concept and examines whether this novel idea will take a strong footing in the emerging Indian Market.
OOMI Crowdfunding
Here's What You Don't Know About Fundraising That Could Save You Time, Energy and Money
How 3 Crowdfunding Platforms are Changing the Paradigm
http://www.oomifunds.org/
OOMI Crowdfunding, OOMI, Crowdfunding, Crowdfunding Platforms
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What is Impact101 Crowdfunding Business Opportunity I want to give special thanks to Planet M for releasing Impact101 Crowdfunding Plan In Hindi | Know Everything About Impact101 Plan In Hindi
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For this reason, the Impact 101 Crowdfunding platform includes digital products in the form of marketing tutorials for those using the service to raise money
Copyright @ 2 Crowdfunding
So I began researching how to make passive income a reality with impact101 crowdfunding.
introduction to the impact101 crowdfunding platform. impact101 is an amazing crowdfunding platform where anybody can get donations directly to his bank account without the interference of any third party...
this platform is the best in the crowdfunding industry...
impact 101 crowdfunding fast review. 5050 crowdfunding is the world's initial crowdfunding system permits you to get fifty percent of whatever that occurs in your matrix permanently!.
p2pprofit membership is designed to help you succeed with your crowdfunding campaign..
impact101 crowdfunding honest review.
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Introduction to the Impact101 Crowdfunding Platform
impact 101 crowdfunding review presentation q&a 21/02/2018.
Impact 101 Crowdfunding is the name impact101 crowdfunding and 5050 crowdfunding free training.
IBO member Dean Corbitt published a video titled: WHAT IS IMPACT101 CROWDFUNDING
Impact101 Crowdfunding Plan In Hindi | Know Everything About Impact101 Plan In Hindi
That's why you see a lot of posts/videos out there about Impact101 crowdfunding review and they compare it to 50/50 CF
539 Views · What do you think about the Impact 101 crowdfunding platform
How to Make Passive Income & Why You Should
This document defines crowdfunding and discusses its benefits and drawbacks. Crowdfunding is raising money from a large number of people typically online. Benefits include fast financing with no fees, marketing, feedback, and testing ideas. Drawbacks include a large time commitment, fees of 8-12%, high failure rates, and potential damage to reputation if projects fail. The document provides tips for successful crowdfunding such as understanding the process, creating a plan and pitch, securing early pledges, and communicating with investors. It also lists popular crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
This document discusses crowdsourcing and how it drives innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. It provides examples of historical prizes that motivated people to solve problems. It then discusses how challenges can capture public imagination, generate favorable opinions of sponsors, and create communities to solve real problems. Challenges lead people to invest substantial time and resources developing solutions. The document also discusses how crowdsourcing synergizes with social media and provides examples of how organizations use crowdsourcing.
Zum Einstieg in die Diskussion zum Thema "Crowdfunding und Open Innovation" beim Open Innovation Kongress in Karlsruhe am 3.12.2014 habe ich die Teilnehmer kurz in das Thema Crowdfunding eingeführt.
http://gumpelmaier.net/2014/11/30/open-innovation-und-crowdfunding-in-karlsruhe/
Presentation given on Feb 24/2011 at CSI in Toronto to Charities and Non-Profits on the topics of Social Media and Crowdfunding. Attention was paid to Fundchange as a new crowdfunding initiative in Canada sponsored by TELUS.
El documento presenta un libro sobre cómo las empresas pueden ganar el Momento Cero de la Verdad (ZMOT), que es el momento en que los consumidores buscan y exploran información sobre marcas y productos antes de tomar una decisión de compra. El libro analiza cómo ha cambiado el proceso de toma de decisiones de los consumidores en la era digital y ofrece consejos sobre cómo las empresas pueden participar en el ZMOT para satisfacer mejor las necesidades de los consumidores y ganar su lealtad.
Wef global informationtechnology_report_2014Silvia Cardona
The Global Information Technology Report 2014 examines the rewards and risks of big data. It features the latest Networked Readiness Index rankings based on data from 148 economies. Several chapters discuss how organizations can leverage big data through improved data management, policies that balance risks and rewards, and building trust through regulation. Overall, the report advises that both public and private sectors will need to adapt to make sense of and obtain value from the vast amount of new data being created.
The document provides guidance on structuring an effective QR code marketing campaign. It outlines 10 rules for using QR codes, including choosing the appropriate QR code type, customizing the code, ensuring visibility and size, and directing the code to mobile-optimized content. The document also provides examples of both bad and good QR code campaigns, highlighting mistakes to avoid and best practices to follow. The overall purpose is to educate on properly designing and implementing a QR code campaign.
The document discusses how organizations can use social media to become more open. It describes three models of open organizations - organic, centralized, and coordinated - based on how information and decisions are distributed. The organic model develops spontaneously through employee initiatives, while the centralized model gives management strict control. The coordinated model allows decentralization with guidelines. The document advocates analyzing existing openness and finding the right balance between openness, control, and coordination when developing social media strategies.
The document discusses how mobile phones are transforming Africa. It describes how mobile phones have become essential devices across the continent, improving financial inclusion and helping work around infrastructure problems. Innovations like mobile money services have disrupted banking by allowing digital financial transactions without bank accounts. Mobile phones are also transforming agriculture, healthcare, and increasing transparency in politics. Entrepreneurs have created mobile applications that help farmers access market information, verify authenticity of medicines, and monitor political violence.
This document provides an overview of the 23 companies selected as Technology Pioneers for 2013 by the World Economic Forum. The pioneers are developing innovative solutions across several fields including information technology, telecommunications, energy/environment, and life sciences. Some key trends among the pioneers are solutions to address climate change and sustainability issues; technologies that simplify machine interfaces and adapt to users; and approaches that make advanced tech more affordable and accessible. The document profiles each pioneer company and the problems they are working to solve through technological innovation.
Risk and Responsibility in a Hyperconnected World assesses cyber resilience and the impact of cyberattacks. It examines necessary action areas, analyzes response readiness through interviews and surveys, and sets out three alternative future scenarios. The report finds that cyberattacks pose strategic risks and could slow innovation worth $1-21 trillion. While large companies acknowledge interdependence, most lack mature cyber risk management processes. The report concludes collaborative action is needed across sectors to build cyber capabilities and develop a framework for participants to enhance resilience. It proposes a 14-point roadmap to facilitate cooperation.
This document discusses crowdfunding and provides an overview of its history, types, advantages, disadvantages, opportunities, and risks. Specifically, it notes that crowdfunding has grown significantly since the 2008 financial crisis as a way for entrepreneurs and projects to access funding outside of traditional channels. There are four main types of crowdfunding: donation-based, reward-based, lending-based, and equity-based. The advantages include accessing early-stage funding and feedback while the disadvantages include the risk of not meeting fundraising goals and lack of privacy. The opportunities are that good ideas can access cash through popularity while the risks include the possibility of failure and lack of vetting compared to traditional investors.
I have explained what Crowdfunding is all about. It also includes some of the success stories of entrepreneur who use crowdfunding as their fund raiser.
PluribusFund presented at the Washington, DC Economic Partnership's (WDCEP) & Small Business Administration's (SBA) Alternative Sources of Funding event held on September 26, 2013. PluribusFund, a new DC-based startup, is a Crowdfunding Portal designed to channel investment in local DC Metro projects that strengthen and enrich our communities.
In this presentation, we are going to introduce Crowdfunding from different aspects. Some websites that cater to a Crowdfunding environment will also be listed. Moreover, we will go through a statistical analysis of the Crowdfunding success story.
For more information please visit http;//crowdfundingbank.com
This document provides an executive summary of a study analyzing crowdfunding in the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). Four organizations - the Aspen Institute Prague, Creative Industry Forum, Res Publica Foundation, and Budapest Observatory - collaborated on the study. They organized meetings in each country to gather data through interviews with local crowdfunding experts. The study found that while crowdfunding totals are not large, the amounts raised have been growing. Local platforms primarily fund arts and social projects, while technology startups use global platforms like Kickstarter. No country comprehensively regulates crowdfunding, and taxation of funds raised is unclear. The study concludes by recommending the establishment
The document lists and summarizes 17 different crowdfunding websites, including Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, GoFundMe, and Funding Circle. It provides a brief 1-2 sentence description of each platform and its purpose, such as allowing users to fund creative projects, raise money for charitable causes, or connect small businesses with local investors through crowdfunding. The overall document serves as a resource for comparing different crowdfunding options.
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Crowdfunding involves raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically over the Internet. There are three main types: donation-based, rewards-based, and equity-based. Donation crowdfunding involves donating to a cause without an expected return. Rewards crowdfunding offers contributors rewards in exchange for funding. Equity crowdfunding allows contributors to invest in a company in exchange for shares. While crowdfunding has helped fund many projects and small businesses, many campaigns ultimately fail to reach their funding goals.
This document provides an introduction and overview of crowdfunding in the European Union. It defines crowdfunding as raising funds online from a large number of individuals for a specific project or venture. The document then summarizes the main crowdfunding models (donations, rewards, lending, equity), potential benefits for the economy, project owners, and contributors, and concludes by inviting the public to provide feedback on crowdfunding in the EU through an online questionnaire.
Crowdsourcing donations: getting free money for your startup in EuropeDenis Duvauchelle
Crowdsourcing donations: it's tough getting invested in in the first place, so startups have to look at more than just the usual options of getting an investor, getting a bank loan or getting help from family and friends. Crowdsourcing (or crowdfunding), if done right, can be a great, budget-friendly way of accessing capital. This slideshare tells you what it is, where to get it in Europe and how to do a successful campaign (with some awesome examples).
Crowdfunding can benefit large corporations and professional investors in several ways:
1) It allows them to validate market demand for new products before significant investment, gain customer insights, and identify partnerships.
2) Established companies are using crowdfunding for reputation management, innovation development, and monitoring trends.
3) Professional investors are diversifying investment portfolios by investing in crowdfunding platforms and loans.
4) Major banks are creating their own platforms to support small business customers and improve loan underwriting.
Understand what is crowdfunding, what are the best practices, what to take under consideration when developing a crowdfunding campaign and why is this important!
The document provides an overview of crowdfunding and discusses traditional funding methods for entrepreneurs. It defines the four main models of crowdfunding: donations-based, rewards-based, lending-based, and equity-based. The document also highlights that crowdfunding transactions are expected to exceed $34 billion in 2015 and overtake venture capital funding. It features perspectives from leaders in the crowdfunding industry on topics like peer-to-peer lending and increasing financial inclusion through alternative credit scoring models.
This document provides an overview of crowdfunding as a concept. It begins with definitions of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing, noting that crowdfunding derives from the broader concept of crowdsourcing. It then discusses various typologies of crowdfunding including crowddonations, crowdsponsoring, crowd pre-selling, crowdlending, and crowdequity. The document also provides examples of prominent crowdfunding platforms and enterprises, such as Prodigy Network, IndieGoGo, Kickstarter, and Little Big Money. Overall, the document serves to define crowdfunding and provide context around its various models and applications.
Louis BELLOIN - Report on Crowdfunding - 2013Louis BELLOIN
This document provides an analysis of crowdfunding and which organizations can benefit from it. It begins with definitions of crowdfunding, discussing its history and general idea. It then examines the different types of crowdfunding and projects, as well as the position of crowdfunding in the market in terms of its evolution and in the French market specifically. Real case studies are discussed, including the case of Antabio. The document also covers the limits and regulation of crowdfunding before concluding with recommendations. Interviews were conducted with professionals in the crowdfunding industry to inform the analysis.
Crowdfunding involves pooling together small amounts of capital from various individuals in order to finance a new business.
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A Brief History of Venture Capital Innovation from 1946 to Today, from Sand Hill Rd to Startup Studios, Accelerators, Crowdfunding, AngelList and ICOs.
Transformación Digital, enfocada Al E-Marketing para el sector turismoSilvia Cardona
Este documento describe los componentes clave de una estrategia de transformación digital y marketing digital para el sector turismo. Explica que la transformación digital implica integrar tecnología en todas las áreas de una empresa para cambiar fundamentalmente cómo opera y brinda valor. También incluye un cambio cultural y la reelaboración de productos mediante el aprovechamiento de la tecnología. Luego, detalla las etapas clave de una estrategia de marketing digital como definir objetivos, conocer al cliente, medir resultados y fidelizarlos. El objetivo general es centrarse
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Crowdfunding
What‘s in it for development aid?
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2. Crowdfunding is the latest fundraising buzz word. One project, one website,
through which hundreds or thousands of donors not only raise money for
their cause but also spread the word all over the Internet by asking friends and
followers for support. With social media at work, crowdfunding has turned
into a fundraising hype. There are already more than four hundred operating
platforms worldwide. But those who pioneered this fundraising instrument
have long discovered that crowdfunding is not about the money at all. Crowd-
funding wins feedback, volunteer support, public debate and open innovation
processes that also results in direct improvements to the fundraiser’s work.
Crowdfunding has the potential not only to be a game-changer to organi-
sational structures but also to the aid industry in a broader sense - it levels
hierarchies by directly linking people short of funds to people with money.
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3. in music-crowdfunding. One of the industry’s
first major crowdfunding successes was ac-
complished by the platform: fans of American
Hip Hop-legends Public Enemy pledged over
€ 59,000 to support the band’s comeback-plans.
In the 1870s, French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste
Bartholdi came up with the idea of building
a colossal monument of iron and steel, today
known as the Statue of Liberty.1
It was a gift
to the United States from the French people
to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the
American Declaration of Independence. Both
countries agreed to co-finance the project: the
statue itself was to be funded by the people of
France, Americans were to provide the pedes-
tal and the site. But fundraising proved difficult
on both sides. To raise money for this unique
project, the French-American Union organized
a lottery and other events, Bartholdi even sold
miniature statues, on which the name of each
buyer was engraved.
But despite these efforts the project still lacked
funds even when the body of the statue was fin-
ished, ready to be shipped from Paris to New
York. To close the financing gap, Joseph Pulitz-
er, publisher and owner of “The World”, initi-
ated a fundraising marathon, promising to men-
tion the name of every donor in his newspaper.
After six month it was done: in August 1885
more than $120,000 were raised by the Amer-
ican population to complete the pedestal and
transport the statue to the United States. Most
of the contributions were smaller than a dollar.
The Statue of Liberty is thought to be one of
the first documented crowdfunding projects.
A break-through for the industry was the launch
of the web-based service Kickstarter. The plat-
form focuses on all kinds of creative projects,
ranging from art to music and film, but also
publishing and technology projects. It had its
first major success with Diaspora, a decentral-
ized social network often referred to as the
“Anti-Facebook”, in which users can fully keep
control of their data. Within six weeks, more
than 6,400 backers pledged over $200,000 and
the project received tremendous attention from
both online and offline media. Kickstarter ben-
efited from this huge success of one of its pro-
jects as well and soon became the global market
leader in terms of crowdfunding. In a way, Dias-
pora’s campaign also marked the beginning of a
crowdfunding hype that continues to date.
In 2006, Berlin-based company Betterplace
started its crowd donation services, addressing
“charitable organisations, but also small grass-
roots initiatives round the corner from you, or
anywhere in the world,” according to its web-
site. After the devastating earthquake that shook
Haiti in 2010, more than €750,000 were donated
to disaster relief measures through Betterplace.
In the same year, the term “crowdfunding” was
coined by fundavlog founder Michael Sullivan
to explain his approach of building and financ-
ing a network for video-blogger:
Since then, many other projects have been re-
alized with the help of private donations. But
it was only with the advent of the Internet that
this alternative form of project funding could
develop towards an open and transparent fi-
nancing tool with its own infrastructure in the
form of crowdfunding-platforms (CFPs). Ac-
cording to the Crowdfunding Industry Report,
published by private company Massolution,
there are currently more than 450 CFPs world-
wide, a decade since the first platforms emerged
shortly after the turn of the millennium.
The first sectors to embrace crowdfunding were
the music and film industries.
In 2000, ArtistShare was founded by Brian
Camelio, launching its initial project in October
2003. The platform is dedicated to music pro-
jects, using a so called “fan-funding” approach
that enables the general public to follow the
funding and recording process and later get ac-
cess to the final product (e.g. a CD) or other
special rewards.
A few years later, in 2006, Netherlands-based
company SellaBand launched its crowdfunding
services, also focusing on music projects. In
2010 the platform filed bankruptcy, but soon
relaunched as SellaBand GmbH with new own-
ers and headquarters in Munich. Since then, the
platform has established itself as a major player
Figure 1: Illustration from U.S. Patent D11023, Filed Jan 2,
1870 by Bartholdi. (http://static.neatorama.com/images/
2007-05/bartholdi-liberty-patent.jpg)
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5. All or nothing?
Once there is a project that needs funding,
crowdfunders need to choose between using
an existing crowdfunding service or follow a
D.I.Y. (do it yourself) approach by using their
own website, software and existing personal
network of connections to successfully manage
and conclude a campaign. Individually set up
campaigns can either be implemented by us-
ing crowdfunding widgets and donation forms
such as IgnitionDeck or ChipIn, which can be
embedded into a self-hosted blog or website.
Another option is a white-label crowdfund-
ing solution, offered by various CFPs, such as
FirstGiving, InvestedIn or Mimoona, just to
name a few.
According to The Crowdfunding Bible by Scott
Steinberg, following the D.I.Y. approach “re-
quires that you possess a user-friendly, accessi-
ble and stable solution for promoting and pro-
cessing pledge efforts, as well as the capability
to engage, motivate and retain the attention of
a sizable fan base that believes in your brand,
your company or your project.”. He further
continues, that “unless your project or team has
a large existing built-in audience of fans, or the
ability to self- motivate large crowds, for most
people, using one of the crowdfunding services
[…] will likely prove more productive.”
In fact, it is the infrastructure of CFPs that make
them useful for both individuals and organisa-
tions, as they include the following features:
• verified payment solutions
• supporter management tools
• clear structured project-pitching page
• social sharing tools
• projects success progress bar
• update/blog area
After choosing the right crowdfunding approach
(equity-, lending-, donation-, reward-based) and
the platform for a project, the crowdfunding
campaign kicks off. Most projects target a cer-
tain amount that they seek to raise within a de-
fined timeframe. The majority of CFPs uses this
all-or-nothing approach, whereby the funds are
only disbursed to the project if the threshold
is reached.
»Most projects target a certain
amount that they seek to raise
within a defined timeframe.«
Nevertheless, some platforms are offering flexi-
ble or hybrid models, for example project owners
on Indiegogo or Rockethub can choose between
“fixed” and “flexible” campaigns, in which “flex-
ible” means that the campaign will receive all of
the funds contributed within the set time frame.
When planning a crowdfunding campaign indi-
viduals as well as organisations should be aware
that crowdfunding platforms earn income by
charging commission on the money they raise.
This commission is typically calculated as a per-
centage from the total amount of funds raised,
and/or based on achieving a “fully- funded”
goal.” Those platform fees vary between zero to
ten percent of the set target amount. In addition,
project owners should be aware of possible pay-
ment transaction fees, e.g. such as fees charged
by online payment providers like PayPal. There
are also possible taxes payments, such as sales tax
or value added tax, income tax or capital gains
tax.
On their blog, equity-based crowdfunding plat-
form Bloom venture catalyst provide an info-
graphic that shows how to crowdfund in 3 easy
steps, but in the figure’s subtext caution that
crowdfunding is an arduous task:
“We’ve laid out the 3 all-important steps but
remember, each step takes time and effort. You
need to spend time planning your project before
you post it, reaching out to your networks before
you launch, and then repeat steps 2 and 3, keep-
ing in touch with everyone with regular updates,
throughout the duration of your campaign.”
Overview of CFPs:
Equity-based
(for financial return)
LENDING-based
(for financial return)
REWaRD-based
(for non-monetary
rewards)
DONATION-based
(for philanthropy and
sponsorship)
GrowVC (INT)
www.growvc.com
Kiva (INT)
www.kiva.org
Kickstarter (INT)
www.kickstarter.com
GlobalGiving (INT)
www.globalgiving.org
Innovatrs (INT)
www.innovatrs.com
Zidisha (INT)
www.zidisha.org
Indiegogo (INT)
www.indiegogo.com
JustGiving (INT)
www.justgiving.com
Seedmatch (DE)
www.seedmatch.de
Prosper (US)
www.prosper.com
Rockethub (INT)
www.rockethub.com
FirstGiving (INT)
www.firstgiving.com
Crowdcube (UK)
www.crowdcube.com
Lending Club (US)
www.lendingclub.com
Startnext (DE)
www.startnext.de
Betterplace (DE)
www.betterplace.org
WeFund (UK)
www.wefunder.com
Smava (DE)
www.smava.de
Verkami (ESP)
www.verkami.com
HelpDirect (DE)
www.helpdirect.org
WiSeed (FR)
www.wiseed.fr
Zopa (UK)
uk.zopa.com
Pozible (AUS)
www.pozible.com
Respekt.net (AT)
www.respekt.net
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6. In fact, community engagement and transparent
communication with all stakeholders are some
of the key factors for a successful crowdfund-
ing campaign. Keeping supporters in the loop
has become much easier with the rise of social
media such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter.
Now supporters can follow a project right from
the start via status updates or blog posts.
Enormous potential
The key findings of the Crowdfunding Industry
Report 2012 show the enormous potential of
crowdfunding for all types of financing seeking
projects:
• As of April 2012, 452 CFPs were operating
globally.
• Almost $1.5 billion was raised by CFPs
world-wide in 2011.
• Reward-based is the largest category in
terms of overall number of CFPs, while
equity-based is the fastest-growing category
by net year-on-year growth.
• More than 1 million successful campaigns
were run by CFPs in 2011.
• The majority of these campaigns fell into
the donation-based category totaling 1067
million, but equity-based campaigns were,
on average, much larger in size in terms of
funds raised.
• Crowdfunding for financial return (i.e., col-
lectively, equity- based and lending-based
crowdfunding) is most effective for digital
goods such as applications or computer
games, films, music, or literature. It also
raises the largest sums of money per cam-
paign. More than 80% of the campaigns in
this category raise above $25,000.
figure 4: Massolution (2012): Crowdfunding Industry Report
- Market Trends, Composition and Crowdfunding Platforms,
page 17
• Donation-based and reward-based
crowdfunding for cause- based campaigns
that appeal to funders’ personal beliefs
(e.g., environment, community, faith) and
passions perform best.
• Donation-based and reward-based crowd-
funding for art and performing arts pro-
jects drive much smaller funding volumes
than the mainstream media suggests. The
campaigns in these categories are much
smaller, with two-thirds of them generat-
ing less than $5,000.
figure 5: Massolution (2012): Crowdfunding Industry Report
- Market Trends, Composition and Crowdfunding Platforms,
page 21
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8. go in the UNCHR’s Meheba Refugee Camp she
promised personalised letters, “USA for UN-
HCR” Blue Key pins or handcrafted souvenirs
from Zambia as rewards. Although her highest
perk was $100 worth, at least 5 people gave
more then the proposed amount of money, not
counting supporters who donated anonymously.
Non-profit organisations get a 25 percent reduc-
tion on the platform fees on Indiegogo. The plat-
forms also offers all US-based contributors to
deduct their contributions to crowdfunding cam-
paigns from ther tax bill. Other platforms such as
Startnext or Sponsume have similar offers.
Some reward-based platforms also enable do-
nors to show sponsor and partner details in
well exposed boxes. As part of her fundraising
campaign for the short film “Schneeglöckchen”
- telling the story of a group of refugees trying
to cross the EU border - Austrian filmmaker
Jenny Gand added various logos of partnering
organisations such as CARE, Caritas or UN-
HCR to the campaign’s pitching page. In that
way, supporting organisations can gain publicity,
even when they do not support a project finan-
cially but merely promote it and spread its word.
Beyond that, many CFPs offer so-called “curat-
ed” pages for companies and organisations to
show all supported or self-initiated projects. For
example, the Kiva Fellows, associated with the
microfinance non-profit organisation Kiva, list
supported projects on Indiegogo.
Kiva itself can be classified as a lending-based
CFP, which enables individuals to help entre-
preneurs in developing countries by giving them
micro loans. In this way, more than 500,000
loans were made through Kiva, with a repay-
ment rate of 99.00%. In a recent blog post,
Kiva presents three borrowers, one of them is
Luisa, a cloth maker and member of the San
Rafael Group from Peru who used her loan to
buy materials for her sewing business, boosting
her income and helping her to better support
her family. In total, $4,100 were borrowed to the
group, with a monthly repayment schedule for
seven months.
Until now there are almost no CFPs in the area
of equity-based crowdfunding, except for a few
that are just starting to operate. Such as Crowd-
Mission, which claims to be “the world’s first
equity-based crowdfunding platform for social-
ly-driven businesses.”
One of the most important CFPs in the dona-
tion-based segment is GlobalGiving that has
raised just over $78 million since 2002. Projects
range from categories like disaster recovery,
economic development, human rights to sport,
education and even arts and culture. Another
platform is Germany’s Betterplace, also offering
above mentioned “pages” for institutions and
organisations such as the German Red Cross,
UNICEF or CARE, but also smaller organisa-
tions like Tareto Maa.
This feature replicates one of the most impor-
tant mechanism of social media. In social net-
works, some users have the status of opinion
leaders – users that these super-users follow
gain more attention. Users read what these so-
cial sign-posts are reading. Large and reputa-
ble organisations can have the same impact, as
projects that have been endorsed by them on
these pages get more attention than others. This
allows individual projects to gain traction in
their fundraising campaign, but on the flip-side
those many small projects that are not endorsed
may struggle to breach the Internet’s attention
threshold.
»In social networks, some users
have the status of opinion leaders
– users that these super-users
follow gain more attention.«
The UK subsidiary of the humanitarian or-
ganisation CARE International is hosting a
D.I.Y-platform called lendwithcare.org. The or-
ganisation says that in 2012 it helped more than
seven million people improve their household
income, including through village savings and
loan associations. It says it has supported 131
microfinance projects in 39 countries. Falling
under the lending-based model, the online ser-
vice of CARE uses the organisation’s expertise
in microfinancing to build a more direct link
between social entrepreneurs, microfinance in-
stitutions and private lenders.
Especially when speaking of lending-based and
equity-based crowdfunding, the term “social
entrepreneurship” is often used to describe the
funding focus of these platforms. “Social en-
trepreneurs are society’s change agents, creators
of innovations that disrupt the status quo and
figure 6: Cooperation partners of the short movie
“Schneeglöckchen” (Screenshot). http://www.startnext.de/
schneegloeckchen/
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9. transform our world”, according to the Skoll
Foundation, founded by Jeff Skoll, the first
President of eBay. In that context, there’s a va-
riety of niche-platforms, such as lending-based
CFP Energy in Common for supporting those
social entrepreneurs who focus on energy pro-
jects. The platform Kopernik on the other hand
calls itself an “online marketplace of innova-
tive, life-changing technologies designed for
the developing world” and showcases the lat-
est technologies to local groups (NGOs) that
can choose which technology is most needed
in their area and then apply online for funding.
And last but not least Samahope lets you change
a person’s life by financing corrective surgery
for people in developing countries.
In an interview with ikosom, a publication by
the German “Institut für Kommunikation in
Sozialen Medien”, Austrian social entrepreneur
Dave Balzer stated that crowdfunding
“is an excellent tool to draw attention to issues
in developing and emerging countries, because
- when being well prepared - it can spread all
over the Internet without having large advertis-
ing budgets. Thus laying the foundation stone
for two absolutely critical things to solve the
problem: 1) raising public awareness and 2) rais-
ing funds to solve those problem or at least to
simplify them.”2
Together with his family he founded a compa-
ny called KhadiBag, which is an ecologically
and socially sustainable company that supports
the biggest social project in India: Khadi! They
aim to produce bags made of eco-friendly Kha-
di-cotton, designed by themselves and produced
at a village factory in Goa. The Khadi project
dates back to the independence struggle of Ma-
hatma Gandhi who founded the project in 1920
as a peaceful means. Its main goal is to help ru-
ral people.
»They thought it would be too
difficult to get access
to public funding or a bank loan
for such a social project.«
Balzer’s family needed financing to produce
their first KhadiBags, which they tried to raise
through the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.
They thought it would be too difficult to get ac-
cess to public funding or a bank loan for such
a social project. Within a few weeks they raised
€5,000, which were doubled by Google and a
separate entrepreneurship foundation.
There are several reasons why Balzer turned to
crowdfunding, but “besides the aspect of fund-
ing, it was important for us to do a proof-of-
concept for our project at an international lev-
el.”, he said. “We wanted to use crowdfunding
to test the concept and see if there’s a market
for it and if people are open to our project. Fur-
thermore, we received a lot of feedback which
we already were able to use for our first product
line,” he told ikosom.
This can be compared to the product-testing
of some small open source software companies
that constantly publish their new code, to which
a user community then can react and make or
suggest improvements.
In retrospect Balzer states “that crowdfunding
is a relatively simple but time-consuming pro-
cess. (...) All in all crowdfunding is no guarantee
of a successful funding! It is hard work and not
easy money! However, we can speak from per-
sonal experience: you should try it by all means!
Apart from an extremely fast and high learning
factor you get honest feedback directly from the
audience, which can help the project to become
better.”
Conclusion
In conclusion, there’s a lot to be won by includ-
ing crowdfunding into organisations’ existing
set of fundraising tools, both for individual or-
ganisations as well as for the development sec-
tor as a whole. Crowdfunding is already part and
parcel to many organisations’ and individuals’
wish to make the world a better place and help
people around the globe to improve their lives.
Its obvious benefit is raising money. Crowd-
funding is credited with overcoming financing
barriers to small grassroots projects that don‘t
have access to banks and large donors.
But pioneers of crowdfunding discovered
quite early that the concept is not at all about
the money and that “you can sometimes make
much more than you ever intended, or asked
for”, as Scott Steinberg put it in his Crowdfund-
ing Bible.
Crowdfunding not only provides money to or-
ganisations, it also boosts their man power as
the crowd that funds them also puts their in-
stitutional structures on a broader footing. The
supporters unwittingly become an additional
marketing team by promoting the project they
funded to their friends and networks.
Another side-product of crowdfunding there-
for is testing the popularity and effectiveness
of a project with very little means, often before
the project has even started. “An unexpected
benefit of crowdfunding campaigns is that you
will often receive very useful advice – and even
tangible offers of assistance – from backers,
who, after all, want you to succeed and will do
everything they can to help you get there,” said
Dave Balzer in his interview with ikosom.
As an offshoot of crowdsourcing, which in turn
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11. Wolfgang Gumpelmaier is an independent digital media
consultant and one of the leading crowdfunding experts
in Austria. During his media studies at Vienna University
he worked as a film critic and journalist. He is a passion-
ate web user and always on the hunt for the latest trends
in Social Media and Digital Communication. He runs
several blogs, e.g. on gumpelmaier.net he writes about
Social Media in general, in his Social Film Marketing blog
he focusses on developments in terms of digital film
marketing and distribution. As a team member of the
Institut für Kommunikation in soziale Medien (http://
www.ikosom.de) he is observing and analysing recent
trends in Crowdfunding/Crowdsourcing and has writ-
ten numerous articles on that topic. Besides, Wolfgang
is working as a TrendScout for Hamburg-based company
TrendOne and as Senior Consultant for digital projects
at Linz-based agency sery.com. He is a regular speaker at
a variety of workshops and film festivals and is current-
ly working on different projects throughout Europe. In
2011, together with Anja C. Wagner, Bertram Gugel and
Fabian Topfstedt, he founded www.ununi.tv - a “crowd
university for modern life”.
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Wolfgang Gumpelmaier
about the authors
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12. Jörg Eisfeld-Reschke is one of the leading crowdfunding
experts in Germany. He has conducted the first crowd-
funding study in Germany in 2011 and written many
articles since. In 2010 he founded ikosom, the Institut
für Kommunikation in soziale Medien (http://www.
ikosom.de). As consultant he supports non-govern-
mental-organisations and enterprises on how to develop
strategies to social media, community-management and
eparticipation. Together with Claudia Pelzer and Karsten
Wenzlaff he published the „Crowdsourcing Report Ger-
many 2012“ that was awarded best science ebook by
derneuebuchpreis.de. He runs www.sozialmarketing.de –
a blog about fundraising and digital communication for
Non-Governmental-Organisations.
He is lecturer at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magde-
burg for “Strategic Fundraising-Management” and is
head of the working group on Digital Fundraising at the
German Fundraising Association.
Karsten Wenzlaff is co-founder and CEO of ikosom.
ikosom is the leading research institute on Crowdfunding
and Crowdsourcing. He is also the co-author of the first
Crowdsourcing-Report in Germany, which reveived the
Neue Buchpreis at the Book Fair Frankfurt. He is a grad-
uate of the University of Cambridge and the University
of Bayreuth. Karsten has published a wide range of arti-
cles, studies and essays on Crowdfunding, Crowdsourc-
ing and OpenScience. He has co-founded the German
Crowdsourcing-Verband.
Jörg Eisfeld-ReschkeKarsten Wenzlaff
about the autors
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