crowdfunding
What happens when we think about Kickstarter and IndieGoGo as fan communities rather than just marketplaces? Funders and founders still congregate in an exchange of money for projects, but a simple qualification introduces us to the superfans who make crowdfunding unique and may stitch the whole thing together. Crowdfunding sells
crowdfunding
Crowdfunding promises to redraw the geography of financing and shift its center from institutions toward individuals. The megabanks and institutional investors aren’t going away; they’re just going to have company. The role of individual investors will expand through crowdfunding platforms that promise to match pent up demand with
crowdfunding
For all its breakthroughs, crowdfunding has realized a slow accumulation of hard truths. Things don’t always go so well. Production gets delayed. The project founders may not be prepared to handle a boisterous and demanding crowd. And then come the cries of fraud and failure. The excitement over seeing
crowdfunding
Dalton Caldwell sparked a debate about what Twitter could have been the other week. Like a disappointed uncle, he waxed on about the two paths Twitter could have taken, and how saddened he felt by their decision to become a media property, organized around advertising. But that wasn’t the
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When people think about markets, they think about stocks, trading, indexes, the closing bell. They think about transactions and money trading hands. But markets are as much about money as they are about information. And crowdfunding sites are no different. Information is essential. Without liquid, reliable information, markets function poorly,