Download or read book Crowd Funding How to Raise Money with the Online Crowd written by David Gass and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Crowd Funding is becoming one of the best approaches for finding money for just about any project. Crowd Funding gives you the ability to raise money for any idea or business without acquiring debt or giving up equity. Crowd Funding websites are explained in this book and how to best use them to raise the money you need for your business, project or idea."--amazon.com kindle ed.

Download or read book Kickstarter 101 written by Thomas Buffett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crowdfunding has been around for a long time, yet it is only recently that this versatile and amazing fundraising tool has become a household name. Businesses both big and small have learned that crowdfunding is one of the best and least risky ways to get a project off the ground, while many startups have found their dreams realized only through the efforts of crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Simply put, this type of sourcing is a way to put an idea on the web and entice stakeholders or potential clients to invest. This tactic is marketed directly at the people who will actually use or benefit from your project or product. You gain capital to create it and in turn, they receive the product as soon as it is done, or a package deal that may include extras you put forth based on an investment scale. But how do you create a Kickstarter Crowdfunding campaign that will be successful? This guide breaks down all the walls and reveals the tricks and tips that will take your idea from stagnant to funded. How to write your proposal, create an eye catching video, how to get the word out, which type of campaign to run - it's all here. If you have a question about Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, then this book is for you.

Download or read book Crowdfunding Confidential Raise Money for You and Your Cause written by Kristen Palana and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crowdfunding Confidential is a friendly, funny, clear, and EFFECTIVE guide to successfully planning, crafting, and launching a crowdfunding campaign that meets its goal for you or someone in need. Who will you help today and what are you waiting for? Grab this quick yet powerful guide and get your successful crowdfunding campaign off on the right foot so you can help others in need starting today. This easy to follow handbook, written to be conversational and accessible will empower YOU to plan, create, and manage your first successful online crowdfunding campaign even if you have no previous fundraising experience and no idea where to start. Busy working mother, college professor, and serial crowdfunder Kristen Palana, has raised over $100K online for 90+ housing, health, education, and income generation projects for needy children and their families since 2004 in her so-called spare time. This book delivers eleven years worth of her best hard-won advice and tips for successful online fundraising for a cause so that you can get started helping others in need powerfully and effectively right away. Here's what you'll find inside: An action plan for mapping out a crowdfunding campaign that has the best chance of being funded, even before it goes live A rundown on popular crowdfunding platforms and which is best for your project Tips for fundraising from your own website and how to partner with nonprofit organizations and small businesses to extend your reach and influence How to harness the emotional power of text, color, and imagery to win hearts, minds, and donations for your cause Learn the top crowdfunding mistakes to avoid BEFORE you begin Craft compelling email and social media campaigns to jump-start the donation process Maximize every dollar/euro donated with a full array of donor-boosting and fundraising ideas Learn HOW and WHEN to ask for donations, follows, and shares Learn how to engage and interact with your donors and cultivate their trust when fundraising for social change Tips for overcoming the fear of asking people for money Learn clever ways to leverage the power of urgency to help spark momentum How to rebound and relaunch a stalled or flailing campaign Learn best practices for what to do before, during, and after your successful campaign has funded to make a continued impact Learn tried and true fundraising basics and gain insights into successfully fundraising for nonprofits. ...and much more! This book is a companion to Kristen Palana's online Udemy course by the same name.

Download or read book The Crowdfunding Handbook written by Cliff Ennico and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IPSs are expensive, and venture capital nearly impossible to attract. Crowdfunding is changing the game for private companies. Are you taking full advantage? Think Kickstarter® is just for artists and people who don’t really want to work for their success? Think again! In 2012 President Obama signed the JOBS act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups), empowering privately owned companies to raise capital from investors without going through the rigorous IPO and private placement processes. Your private company can now crowdfund your way to success! Now that the SEC has handed down the last regulations, the floodgates will open and companies will be free to compete for funding. Thankfully for you, small business and legal expert Cliff Ennico has followed the equity crowdfunding story since its inception and has translated the regulations into a clear set of dos and don’ts for entrepreneurs and small business others looking to get in early. In The Crowdfunding Handbook, burgeoning crowdfunders can learn how to: Decipher whether crowdfunding is their best bet Choose between funding platforms Pitch a project to the public Reach the most promising investors Figure out disclosure documents and report requirements The Crowdfunding Handbook reveals the tips and tools to helo you raise money for your small business or startup with equity funding portals.

Download or read book The Everything Guide to Crowdfunding written by Thomas Elliott Young and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harness the power of the crowd to turn your dreams into reality! Crowdfunding is the newest way to fund projects and start businesses. You don't need to hit up family and friends, max out your credit cards, or get a second mortgage--there are perfect strangers out there who will help you fund your idea. You just have to know how to find them. The Everything Guide to Crowdfunding is a step-by-step handbook to harnessing the power of social media to raise funds. Inside, you'll find real-life case studies and techniques for creating a successful campaign, including: Gaining an online presence Tapping into the crowd Understanding the different crowdfunding platforms Designing a successful campaign plan Promoting your campaign with social media, search engine optimization, and affiliate marketing Dealing with donors after your campaign ends Almost 50 percent of crowdfunding ventures fail to get funded. With this guide, you will learn how to be in the 50 percent that succeed. Whatever your dream or business idea, there is no reason it can't become a reality with the power of crowdfunding.

Download or read book The Crowdfunding Revolution How to Raise Venture Capital Using Social Media written by Kevin Lawton and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE GROUNDBREAKING NEW METHOD FOR RAISING VENTURE CAPITAL THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORKS “The declaration of independence for our industry!” —MAT DELLORSO, WealthForge Inc. “The Crowdfunding Revolution should be on the mandatory reading list for everybody active in the industry or for everyone who’s planning to be.” —CROWDFUND NEWS “Kevin Lawton and Dan Marom have done a great job. . . . A must-read for everybody entering the field of crowdfunding!”—GIJSBERT KOREN, Smarter Money “We recommend this book highly to anyone who is fascinated by this new methodology for funding projects and endeavors. . . . A wonderful read.” —BRIAN MEECE, RocketHub “Read this book if you want to catch the next wave!” —FRED BRYANT, WealthForge Inc. “A must-read for anyone interested in the early stage funding process.” —MANDAR KULKARNI, pluggd.in “The Crowdfunding Revolution offers fundraising inspiration for small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs.” —BUSINESS2COMMUNITY “The Crowdfunding Revolution offers fundraising inspiration for small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs.” —SMALL BUSINESS TRENDS YOUR POOL OF INVESTORS JUST INCREASED BY 2 BILLION . . . Since the day the first human being approached a prospective investor, the province of capital allocation has been controlled by a small and entrenched minority. All this has changed. Now, the power of the Internet—particularly social media—enables anyone to connect with more investors in less time than it used to take to connect with one. The investing pool is open, everyone is in—and The Crowdfunding Revolution shows how to get to the forefront of the new world of venture financing. This groundbreaking guide explains how the explosive growth of connectivity is obviating human-to-human networks and centralized planning of capital allocation—and describes how crowdfunding can be used to tap into a “collective intelligence” for far superior results. Providing a wealth of information that will make your crowdfunding efforts more efficient and productive, the book is organized into three thematic sections: THE ROAD HERE: A thorough overview of what crowdfunding is—and how and why this radical new approach is replacing traditional means of venture financing THE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN: Proven methods for marketing to the crowd, setting clear objectives, building a crowdfunding team, and communicating in a way that inspires action THE ROAD AHEAD: The crowdfunding ecosystem, intellectual property issues, mining collective IQ, new investment models, and regulations More than 2 billion people globally are now active online—and that number is guaranteed to grow at an extraordinary rate. The Crowdfunding Revolution explains all the ins and outs of raising investment capital by using social media and new technologies to draw small sums of money from an almost countless number of sources. Organic. Transparent. Decentralized. This is crowdfunding. This is the future. Read The Crowdfunding Revolution and become the first expert in your crowd on this radical new approach poised to supplant age-old venture financing methods.

Download or read book Crowd Funding written by Modwenna Rees-Mogg and published by Crimson. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crowd Funding by business-funding expert and business angel Modwenna Rees-Mogg is the first book to get to the heart of this exciting and fast-moving new business phenomenon. Discover how to raise capital and investment for your business, project or idea in the way that works best for you. Modwenna has talked to scores of people at the cutting edge of this new way of doing business - investors, entrepreneurs, fundraisers and founders of crowdfunding sites, those who have got it spectacularly right as well as spectacularly wrong. Crowd Funding explores: The different types of crowdfunding What the crowd likes to fund How to persuade the crowd to invest in you What happens once you've got venture capital How to invest as part of the crowd The perils of using crowdfunding as a fundraiser and as an investor Crowd Funding includes inspiring stories of people who have abandoned banks as investment sources, profiles of global crowd funding sites such as Kickstarter, and real-life examples of how to get what you want. It's the only book on the subject to be crowd researched! Modwenna Rees-Mogg is the founder and CEO of www.angelnews.co.uk - the leading news web site for the private investor community. She is a private investor herself and has spent over ten years working closely with investors and entrepreneurs. She is also the author of Dragons or Angels? published by Crimson. She has over 1,800 followers on Twitter: @modwenna.

Download or read book The Crowd Funding Services Handbook written by Jason R. Rich and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crowdsource funding is the new way to finance start-ups in a networked world Entrepreneurs, small business owners, investors, artisans, or those who merely have a good idea for a business venture have a new and attainable means of securing capital to grow their dreams. Gone are the days when the only options to raise funds for a new business were venture capitalists, angel investors, or Wall Street. Web-based crowdfunding services are now plentiful and offer a variety of options for the aspiring entrepreneur. However, these services are not typically as well-understood as the more traditional means of raising capital. In The Crowdsource Funding Services Handbook, author Jason R. Rich offers a step-by-step overview of the various crowdsource funding services available on the Web, as well as the necessary documentation required to launch a successful crowdfunding campaign. Contains details on how to evaluate and select the best online platform for crowdfunding efforts Provides details on creating a business plan to the specifications require to raise capital via crowdfunding Provides an overview of the financial projections that will be required for a crowdfunding initiative Proposes a specific approach to creating a "pitch video" to succeed with a crowdsource funding campaign The Crowdsource Funding Services Handbook is a thorough, well-developed resource for those seeking to raise capital to start a business or fund the development of an innovative idea. Author and crowdfunding expert Jason R. Rich provides this definitive, hands-on guide to raising capital in the new economy.

Download or read book Crowdfunding Personal Expenses written by Salvador Briggman and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes, it's true, crowdfunding is a NEW way to help pay for personal expenses. These could include medical bills, emergency costs, and memorial funds. Crowdfunding can also be used to help pay for your education expenses or volunteer efforts. But, that's not all. Crowdfunding isn't just for charity or personal cause campaigns. Believe it or not, more and more newlyweds are turning to crowdfunding to pay for their honeymoon! Some are even using it to pay for travel expenses! I've been writing about crowdfunding since 2012 and have seen more campaigns that you can imagine. Last year alone, I helped nearly 400,000 individuals raise money from the crowd through my website, podcast, newsletter, and forum. Even though crowdfunding is an amazing tool, there's a right and a wrong way to raise funds online. That's where I come in. I'm going to guide you through the murky waters and share with you the best techniques, strategies, and give you the inside scoop on some of the crowdfunding platforms or websites out there. I'll also give you a heads up on costly MISTAKES TO AVOID when launching your first campaign. Believe me, you don't want to make a fool of yourself or learn the hard way. I'm going to make it dead simple and give you the step-by-step guide for raising money online. All you'll have to do is copy it!

Download or read book The JOBS Act written by William Michael Cunningham and published by Apress. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On April 5, 2012, President Barack Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, better known as the JOBS Act. The act is designed to “reopen American capital markets to small companies,” defined in the act as Emerging Growth Companies. This is one of the most significant legislative initiatives in finance since the Securities and Exchange Acts of 1933 and 1934, and it opens up funding to a slew of companies previously shut out of the capital markets. Here’s the good news: Small businesses and startups will be able to raise up to $1 million in equity (or debt) funding online via what are called Crowdfunding Platforms—online communities and websites. Imagine an eBay-like site that allows you to post your idea for a commercial venture online and then allows investors to purchase equity shares or stakes in it. As one journalist put it, it’s “social media meets venture capital.” How can you get in on the new funding opportunities? That’s what The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups is all about. Investment expert William Michael Cunningham shows how the new law will enable you to use the internet to raise significant amounts of capital funding for your startup. After discussing briefly the development and implementation of the law, what it means, and how it will impact the business startup marketplace, he delivers the nuts and bolts of how to take advantage of the JOBS Act to access new sources of capital for your small business or startup. As you’ll see, the act has the power to unleash a new wave of innovation, increase employment, and set many more average entrepreneurs and investors on the road to wealth. Not just for entrepreneurs, The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups will benefit investors, securities lawyers, community development specialists, educators, venture capitalists, and those offering services in the new crowdfunding arena. It is, simply, the most current and most comprehensive compendium of information on the law and its impact on this new market.

Download or read book How to Successfully Use Crowdfunding written by Pat Gunning and published by Patrick & Gina Gunning. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crowdfunding is a Quick Way to raise Money for almost any Need... If you do it Right!

Download or read book Nonprofit Crowdfunding Explained written by Salvador Briggman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Right now, we're in the middle of a historic shift in charitable giving behavior. The rules of nonprofit fundraising are being re-written as we speak. With the emergence of social media, smartphones, and the web, opportunities for budding nonprofits are finally opening up. What were once tried and true methods to engage donors are quickly becoming archaic and ineffective. Believe it or not, you are living in the golden age of fundraising. A handful of nonprofits have caught on and are absolutely crushing it online. They've harnessed the power of technology to run massive online giving campaigns and reach thousands of supporters across the web. It's a complete no-brainer, but not everyone realizes that yet. In this step-by-step guide, I'm going to be introducing you to several of these organizations that have caught on to and are riding a soaring trend. I've written about many of these orgs on my popular blog, which has been cited by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and more. I've also spoken with many on my podcast. After talking with these nonprofits, I realized one thing. They're not special. What they're doing isn't all that sophisticated. They're run by ordinary folks, just like you and me. In fact, if you follow the steps that I outline in this book, you'll be able to replicate their results. You'll finally get badly needed funding for your organization. Take a second to imagine just how great it will feel to log on to your computer and find your email inbox overflowing with donation messages. Wouldn't that be awesome? I'm not saying that it's going to be easy. Quite frankly, you're going to be treading into uncharted waters. A lot of the tools, websites, and techniques I'm about to cover might seem unfamiliar and at first, confusing. But, I promise you that I'll hold your hand every step of the way. By the end of this ebook, you'll have a clear step-by-step plan for executing an online crowdfunding campaign and know what to do next. More importantly, you'll be able to stay true your org's mission and serve humanity.

Download or read book A Better Way To Crowd Fund Success Kit written by Matrix Thompson and published by Pamper Me Network. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kickstarter alone has successfully funded over 100,000 crowd funding campaigns. And believe us when we tell you that each crowd funder had to design and implement some creative strategies to meet their goals. But nevermind Kickstarters' clients, what about you? How can you supercharge your crowd funding efforts, sell more crowd funding services or grow your crowd funding portal? Well, “A Better Way To Crowd Fund Directory: The #1 Source For Finding Public Relations & Promo Opportunities For Driving Crowd Funding Success” is the answer. We wrote this essential tool for crowd funding vendors, crowd funding portals, experts, inventors, small business owners, business opportunity seekers and, or entrepreneurs who have heard great things about crowd funding and wish to create their own success story. The ebook catalogues hundreds of media sources, websites, journalists, bloggers and social influencers that will: * Share your message; as well as; * Showcase your projects or expert advice to their followers, viewers, listeners or readers. Use A Better Way To Crowd Fund Directory: The #1 Source For Finding Public Relations & Promo Opportunities For Driving Crowd Funding Success to learn the secret techniques for accessing thousands of additional sources for promoting your crowd funding campaign, expert business, ideas and events including podcasts, blogs, retweet networks, and many more. Reference our sources and implement our strategies immediately—and create your own crowd funding success story. But that is not all. We provide real-life examples of experts that are embracing crowd funding with tremendous success including military veteran and first time author John Lee Dumas who generated $453,803 in pre-orders in just 45 days to finance his book and expert business. Once you have read A Better Way To Crowd Fund Directory: The #1 Source For Finding Public Relations & Promo Opportunities For Driving Crowd Funding Success you will realize that it is more than your standard ebook. It is a dynamic, constantly evolving web and email service that updates you daily with a growing list of: * Online sources that wish to promote your crowd funding projects and business; * Podcast show bookers/producers, radio producers, tv producers, print & online journalists, bloggers and related media sources that are interested in interviewing experts like yourself; * Social media influencers that will retweet or share your announcements free of charge simply by mentioning their account or keyword in your posts; * Event planners that wish to feature you as a keynote or guest speaker; * Websites that wish to feature your crowd funding project(s) or great ideas. With the lessons learned in the A Better Way To Crowd Fund Directory: The #1 Source For Finding Public Relations & Promo Opportunities For Driving Crowd Funding Success you will: * Save thousands of dollars in public relations expenses; * Make money even if your crowd funding campaigns fail; * Generate more retweets, Facebook likes and Google + shares; * Get guaranteed media listings, social media shares & fan support; * Learn how to transform your social media followers into self-replicating virtual sales people whom are rewarded to promote your crowd funding campaign, content, products and services, FOREVER; * Book more on-air (television, radio and podcast interviews); * Identify more speaking & networking opportunities; * Recruit more donors, affiliates and social influencers; * Forge more strategic alliances & build larger opt-in email lists; * And of course, close more business and secure more donations. Choose from the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Directory Edition, that includes over 150 public relations, media and influencer sources or the Success Kit that includes weekly email and web delivered updates of NEW public relations, media and influencer sources (for 90 days).

Download or read book Step by Step Crowdfunding written by Joseph Hogue and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this step-by-step guide, you will find the actual process you need from idea conception through pre-launch and fulfillment to make your crowdfunding campaign a success. I skip all the history of crowdfunding and why it is a great tool for your business to go straight to the point, how to put your campaign on the path to beating its funding goal. * How to put your idea together and avoid budget or timeline pitfalls* How to research prior campaigns to find your campaign's magic number* How to find journalists, bloggers and other influencers that will spread the word about your crowdfunding campaign* How to get the most bang for your crowdfunding marketing buck* How to build community and keep your backers motivated* And more...I have been consulting with crowdfunding campaigns for years, from business ready for equity crowdfunding to small projects just looking for a few thousand to get off the ground. Check out my blog at Crowd101 and you'll see what I mean. If you are ready to get your crowdfunding campaign started right and don't want to risk wasting months of your time by not meeting your crowdfunding goal, you MUST know the process. Skip the libraries worth of books talking about the history of crowdfunding or why it is such a revolution in finance. Buy the only book that offers a step-by-step approach to crowdfunding.

Download or read book Crowdfunding for Beginners written by Learn2succeed.com Incorporated and published by Productive Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than $2.7 billion in crowdfunding is raised every year by charities and non-profits. Rewards-based fundraising is used to launch books and theatre productions. Debt crowdfunding is used for personal debt. Equity-crowdfunding is gaining traction but is struggling under a regulatory burden in the US and Canada.

Download or read book Reward and Donation Crowdfunding written by Rohit Gupta and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is informative, apt details for both beginners and experienced Fundraisers. This book covers the basic idea of Reward Based Crowdfunding and Donation Based Crowdfunding. The main headlines of this book are:- • Reward-based crowdfunding: This type of Crowdfunding is also known as the non-equity way of funding your project. It has been widely used for funding campaigns like supporting a free development of software, promotion of motion pictures, aiding scientific research and development of inventions, etc. The people who are funding are hopeful of returns from the project. • Donation-based Crowdfunding: The best example for this would be raising funds from individuals to support personal or social causes. Applications Of Crowdfunding 1. Crowdfunding for personal & Individual Use 2. Crowdfunding for real estate 3. Crowdfunding for startups 4. Crowdfunding for businesses 5. Crowdfunding loans 6. Crowdfunding college debt

Download or read book Advances in Crowdfunding written by Rotem Shneor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of knowledge on the state of crowdfunding research and practice. It considers crowdfunding models and their different manifestations across a variety of geographies and sectors, and explores the perspectives of fundraisers, backers, platforms, and regulators. Gathering insights from a wide range of influential researchers in the field, the book balances concepts, theory, and case studies. Going beyond previous research on crowdfunding, the contributors also investigate issues of community, sustainability, education, and ethics. A vital resource for anyone researching crowdfunding, this book offers readers a deep understanding of the characteristics, business models, user-relations, and behavioural patterns of crowdfunding.