23 Popular Crowdfunding Platforms (Updated 2024)
There is a wide array of crowdfunding platforms, each with its own unique spin on raising funds.
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How Well Do You Know Crowdfunding? Put Your Skills to the Test with this Quiz!
This quiz was designed to test your knowledge of using crowdfunding to fund a small business. Are you ready to put your knowledge to the test?
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The 5 Stages of a Funding Plan
Most Businesses Require Some Form of Funding to Get Started. However, Based on What Business Stage the Business Is At, The Sources of Funding Will Be Different. This Is Where Your Funding Plan Comes in To Identify How the Business Will Secure Financing for Each Stage.
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Crowdfunding Primer – What You Need To Know For A Successful Campaign
There are 11 distinctly different steps required to conduct a successful crowdfunding campaign which can take upwards or 20 weeks to complete
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Crowdfunding: Campaign Follow-up
The Campaign Follow-Up Step Involves Making Good on Your Campaign Promises. If You Fail to Meet Your Goal You Still Need to Thank Backers
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Crowdfunding: Campaign Execution
The Campaign Execution Step Is When the Campaign Is Live on The Crowdfunding Platform and Backers Are Pledging Their Support to Your Campaign
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Crowdfunding: Campaign Write-Up
The Campaign Write-Up Step Involves Creating the Campaign’s Landing Page and Includes At Least 8 Elements Necessary for A Successful Campaign
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Crowdfunding: Design Rewards
The Design Rewards Step Pertains to Reward-Based Crowdfunding Campaigns Only and Are a Series of Rewards to Incentivize Backers to Support Your Campaign
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Crowdfunding: Community Building
Crowdfunding Community Building Involves Building Awareness Of Your Upcoming Campaign So When You Launch, Your Campaign Sees Early Success
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Crowdfunding: Campaign Blog
The Campaign Blog Is Actual Part of Community Building but Is So Vital to Your Campaign Success That It Should Be Considered Its Own Step
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Crowdfunding: Campaign Influencers
Campaign Influencers Involves Finding and Engaging Journals, Publications, Bloggers, and Any Other Influencers That Cover Your Area
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Crowdfunding: Going Social
Going Social Involves Creating a Facebook Page & Getting Involved in Other Social Media Platforms/Groups to Bring Attention to Your Campaign
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Crowdfunding: Campaign Support
Campaign support is about introducing your campaign to a list of people that might be interested in not only supporting you but in helping you throughout the process. In most cases, campaign support should take you about 2 weeks or so to do effectively. At this point in the process, you are making people aware
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Crowdfunding: Campaign Research
Campaign Research Involves Talking to Several Campaign Owners and Asking Them If They Would Be Willing to Discuss Their Campaign Experience
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Crowdfunding: Platform Research
Campaign Platform Research Involves Finding What Projects Worked Best on Each Platform to Determine the Best Platform to Launch Your Campaign
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Crowdfunding: Process Overview
So, you have a gem of an idea and want to get it off the ground. The first question is how much will it cost and can you come up with the money. We know that going to a lending institution like a bank to secure a business loan is an unlikely option and attracting
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Taxes and Crowdfunding
While crowdfunding is becoming more and more common, tax support and guidance for the campaign creators continue to remain unclear on many points. At a minimum, the tax treatment of funds generated through crowdfunding depends on whether the campaign is reward-based, donation-based, or equity-based. Moreover, if it is reward-based, the value of any reward offered
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Information Asymmetry in Equity Crowdfunding
When it comes to equity-based crowdfunding, start-up investments are characterized by a high degree of information asymmetry between the entrepreneur and the investors. To obtain a positive return, investors need to accurately assess both the qualifications and ability of an entrepreneur. They also need to accurately assess the potential of the entrepreneur’s idea. Traditional institutional
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Some Equity-Based Crowdfunding Statistics
CrowdCube is the largest equity-based crowdfunding platform in the United Kingdom. Since its founding in 2008, it has facilitated more than $60 million in transactions to date. Combined, those transactions have involved nearly 88,000 investors and over 140 successfully funded ventures. The average individual equity-based investment was approximately $4,000, although investments ranged from as little
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Crowdfunding 101
Generally speaking, crowdfunding is divided into creative campaigns, reward-based campaigns, and equity campaigns. In creative campaigns, such as a Michael Moore movie, the backers support the message or the “art” and make donations to help promote the cause. Creative campaigns have been around forever, however reward-based and equity campaigns are relatively new. In reward-based campaigns,
The Hidden Value of Crowdfunding
Traditionally, entrepreneurs had 2 options to raise funds to start their business. They could either get a loan or give away ownership to investors. Enter crowdfunding as a third option.
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