This document provides an overview of crowdfunding, including definitions, types of crowdfunding, tips for successful crowdfunding campaigns, and platforms. It discusses reward-based and equity-based crowdfunding. Key tips include preparing well, telling a compelling story, building an audience in advance, focusing on the backer's benefits, and delivering on promised rewards. While some campaigns achieve large sums, crowdfunding requires ongoing effort to succeed and not all ideas will be funded. The bubble for crowdfunding is unlikely to burst given the focus on stories and personalities. The document emphasizes the importance of asking for funding in the right way.
26. What is Crowdfunding?
Types of Crowdfunding
Tips for Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding Platforms
Is Crowdfunding easy money?
Will the Crowdfunding bubble burst?
The Art of Asking
Questions
59. Investors in crowdfunding equities
like stories and personalities. Celebrity
types have spotted this demand and, as
is normal, in markets are testing the
limits of exploitation
74. I think people have been obsessed with
the wrong question, which is, "How do
we make people pay for [music]?" What
if we started asking, "How do we let
people pay for [music]?"
77. Articles
Forbes - Proven tips to raise funding
Why KickStarter Campaigns Fail
Ten Crowdfunding Secrets
EasyProperty Funding Round
Amanda Palmer
Original Kickstarter Project
Current Patreon Fund
One-o鍖 Donations
Amandas TED Talk
The Art Of Asking - Book
Useful Links
Creative Industries - Routes to Finance (PDF)
Wayra - Startup Accelerator
The School For Startups
SEIS The Case for the New Investor (Video)
Platforms
CrowdCube
Syndicate Room
Kickstarter
IndieGoGo
Patreon
Useful Things
My Projects
TicketGun
Inn Style
The Noun Project
Society6
Recommended Reading
Rework
The Lean Startup
Zero to One
Delivering Happiness