Crowdfunding has become more and more popular way for financing new and creative start ups. Starting companies usually can't get a business loan, because they have no history and no assets to secure the loan. This makes crowdfunding an exceptional way for starting entrepreneurs to find the money they need for their ideas. Billions of dollars has been invested this way and hundreds of thousands of new businesses has been launched.
On the following infographic, made by the starting business consulting company
Foundersandfounders.com you can see some information about the top 4 crowdfunding platforms. Below you can read a word or two about each of them.
if you don't know what exactly crowdfunding is, yo can read
this blog post about it.
The Biggest Sites of That Kind
http://AngelList.com/ - a big site, suitable for bigger projects, the minimum is $150 thousands of capital.
http://selfstarter.us/ - here you can download an open source crowdfunding platform, install it on your server and make your own site of that kind.
http://kickstarter.com/ - a great and very popular site, where your idea has a good chance to be noticed.
http://indiegogo.com/ - another big site, where you will receive the money for your project, even if you don't reach your money goal.
Additional information on the matter you can see on Wikipedia
here.
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