Today’s crowdfunding feature is about acoustic solo artist James Hersch. Hersch is a pioneer user of Gig Funder, a donation-based crowdfunding platform that allows musicians to fund their tours. Hailing from Minnesota, Hersch has also spend time in music meccas Los Angeles and Nashville. He has played the college/church/community concert circuit for 33 years, including [...]
View Post 52 Songs, crowd funding, crowdfunding, crowdfunding feature, donation-based crowdfunding, James Hersch, music, reachwithme, tourFunding Launchpad Chief Marketing Officer Dave Milliken recently wrote a guest blog post for public relations firm Leverage PR titled “Crowdfunding Explain- An In Depth Look” (we did not name it, but it sure sounds great). This post provide a brief history of crowdfunding and describes the four types of crowdfunding in broad use today. [...]
View Post crowd funding, crowdfunding, donation-based crowdfunding, explained, investment crowdfunding, Joy Schoffler, Leverage PR, microfinance, peer-to-peer lendingToday we feature a crowdfunding project which recently successfully funded. Ubooly is a cuddly critter powered by your iPhone or iPod touch. Using a custom voice recognition app, Ubooly delivers educational and entertaining activities for children. Monthly WiFi updates keep the content fresh. Carly Gloge and Isaac Squires, founders of Ubooly, got production quotes [...]
View Post crowd funding, crowdfunding, donation-based crowdfunding, UboolyEarlier this month Crowdsourcing.org published their “Crowdfunding Industry Report” based on survey responses from 170 crowdfunding sites. (We view it as a nice supplement to our “Consumer Interest in Investment Crowdfunding” white paper, which is based on consumer research.) This blog post is the first of several that will analyze this research. Over the past [...]
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