Alissa Quart

Our social fabric is sundered. GoFundMe and the other crowdfunding sites that have proliferated since 2010 are an example of what has sprung up in its place, what I have called America's dystopian social net. That is, we now require private solutions to what are public problems.

American Writer

Charles Best

Whether you're raising money for a cause, a personal need, or a project, most crowdfunding sites center on you hitting up people you already know. These sites make it easier to tap your social network for funds, but only the most compelling cases inspire support from strangers.

American Businessman

James P. Gorman

Traditional consumer banking will come under extreme pressure as its central deposit-taking and lending functions are challenged by online savings vehicles, crowdfunding, and loan syndicating by such nontraditional competitors as insurance companies, pension and hedge funds.

Udo Kier

The interesting part about 'Iron Sky' was crowdfunding. It was financed in a very special new way. Timo Vuorensola is an amazing, concentrated person who was able to make this comedy. When I saw the film for the first time, I liked it very much.

German Actor

Amanda Palmer

One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.

American Musician

Burnie Burns

We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.

Fred Ehrsam

Public crowdfunding still suffers from a tragedy of the commons problem. Everyone will want the benefit of the crowdfunded efforts but is incentivized to sit on the sidelines and hope others chip in.

Sonam Wangchuk

People know crowdfunding, but they know it as something where one pays money for a cause or for products and so on. This is something where you contribute, but not money.

Indian Activist

Alexandra Elbakyan

I started a crowdfunding campaign on Sci-Hub to buy additional drives, and soon had my own copy of the database collected by LibGen, around 21 million papers.

Kazakhstani Activist

Naval Ravikant

Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.

Businessman

Crowdfunding is mostly done online, where many people can see and contribute to projects.

Internet Driven

Individuals usually give small amounts that add up to the total needed for the project.

Small Contributions

Projects can be diverse, including arts, technology, business startups, or personal causes.

Project Variety

 when all Jack's panels awesome celebrations happen music fans will love the G actionable jazz festival held in late May geography buff should absolutely visit during World of nations celebration a huge multicultural fair during late April and finally there's one spark one spark is the world's only crowdfunding celebration it's like an

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 that's it. That's the whole game. And whatever they're doing in the middle is going to cease to be quite so important. Audiences, invest in us. Help us make the movies that you want to see. If you can give a female filmmaker 25 dollars in a crowdfunding campaign, great, do that. If you can invest more seriously

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 but he ran with new power at his back, right? And he said to people, we are the ones we've been waiting for. And he used crowdfunding to power a campaign. But when he got into office, he governed like more or less all the other presidents did. And this is a really interesting trend,

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 and enable local responders to provide health care to their war-devastated communities. We had devised a simple source trusted and impactful local groups, support their development through an accelerator program and connect them to you via our crowdfunding platform,

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 is engaging in crowdfunding getting you and me to raise the money to build the goalposts in the park benches that will actually allow us to deliver better services in our communities no one is better at this activity of actually getting us to engage in delivering

Demand a more...

 and I'm going to encourage torrenting, downloading, sharing, but I'm going to ask for help, because I saw it work on the street. So I fought my way off my label, and for my next project with my new band, the Grand Theft Orchestra, I turned to crowdfunding.

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 I will give one to you. I'm not going to propose, don't worry. Are we good? You can show it around. And we put this online -- Kickstarter campaign, crowdfunding. And people started to preorder it, but more importantly, they started to prepay it.

A smog vacuum cleaner...

 downloading sharing but I'm gonna ask for help because I saw work on the street so I fought my way off my label and for my next projects with my new band the grand theft Orchestra I turned to crowdfunding and I fell into

The art of asking -...

 crowdfunding interesting is that these discussions are an ongoing thing which constantly feedback on initiatives proposals and questions this is not necessarily coming out of nowhere the proposal which is already

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 and parents to crowdfunding treatment for their critically ill children. There are many reasons for this crisis, but one is the outdated patent system that America tries to export to the rest of the world.