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[[Crowdfunding]] firms typically take a 5% commission and charge a 3-4% payment-processing fee." | [[Crowdfunding]] firms typically take a 5% commission and charge a 3-4% payment-processing fee." | ||
(http://www.economist.com/node/16909869?story_id=16909869&CFID=149765222&CFTOKEN=41065834) | (http://www.economist.com/node/16909869?story_id=16909869&CFID=149765222&CFTOKEN=41065834) | ||
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"Kickstarter has been around online for just over two years, and various artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and designers have used the site to raise more than $75 million for 10,626 “creative projects,” to use Kickstarter’s preferred term. That money has come from 813,205 “backers” — individuals making mostly modest contributions (the most common is $25) to support specific efforts." | |||
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/magazine/the-trivialities-and-transcendence-of-kickstarter.html) | |||
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[[Category:Peerfunding]] | [[Category:Peerfunding]] | ||
Revision as of 04:55, 3 September 2011
= people pledge money for projects to happen. If the money is raised, the project happens, and the people who pledge get what they've been promised.
URL = http://Kickstarter.com
Description
"Kickstarter lets donors fund art shows, movies, short films, dance, graphic novels and theatre productions. It helped Diaspora, an open-source social-networking project, raise $200,000 during the recent controversy over Facebook’s privacy policies. IndieGogo supports filmmakers, writers and game designers. Some sites specialise: Sellaband helps bands raise money to fund professional recording of albums, and Spot.us raises money for journalistic projects.
Yancey Strickler, Kickstarter’s chief community officer, says the firm accepts about half the projects submitted to it. “We turn down projects that are charity, that are just straight business expenses, or ‘my dog has cancer’,” he says. Of those that are accepted, about half meet their funding goals: around 1,600 projects had been funded by July 2010.
Crowdfunding firms typically take a 5% commission and charge a 3-4% payment-processing fee." (http://www.economist.com/node/16909869?story_id=16909869&CFID=149765222&CFTOKEN=41065834)
Status
2011
"Kickstarter has been around online for just over two years, and various artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers and designers have used the site to raise more than $75 million for 10,626 “creative projects,” to use Kickstarter’s preferred term. That money has come from 813,205 “backers” — individuals making mostly modest contributions (the most common is $25) to support specific efforts." (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/magazine/the-trivialities-and-transcendence-of-kickstarter.html)