First,
traditional crowdfunding platforms do not accept projects from countries where they have no presence.
Not exact matches
Strickler, the 30 - something founder and CEO of Kickstarter — which, since its launch in 2009, has become the most popular
crowdfunding platform in the world — does not yearn for the
traditional talismans of a thriving venture.
These
platforms are positioned to
crowdfund traditional small businesses, mostly with existing operations.
Indiegogo has three main
platforms on its site:
traditional reward - based
crowdfunding, equity
crowdfunding and cause - based
crowdfunding.
Nexba, which has investors including former David Jones chief executive Paul Zahra, is also in the final stages of a $ 3.5 million equity raising, choosing to use a
crowdfunding platform, VentureCrowd, rather than tap into more
traditional funding sources.
That's the premise behind the hybrid model of
crowdfunding in which companies like Inkshares — whose
platform is currently hosting the book campaign for Gary Whitta's first self - published novel — allow the public to fund a book's production through pre-orders before sending it on to a
traditional publishing house.
Similar to the self - publishing
platforms of Smashwords displacing the need for
traditional or legacy publishers,
crowdfunding platforms replace
traditional intermediaries such as venture capitalists and banks, when authors seek to raise funds for the marketing and distribution of their books.
Broken Sword — The Serpent's Curse was launched on the
crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with the aim of allowing Revolution and the creator Charles Cecil to develop the game completely independently away from
traditional games publishing routes.
The full stack
crowdfunding platform publicly announced in August its intent to incorporate tokenized security offerings alongside more
traditional types of securities.
Independent film producers are showing interest in cryptocurrency ICOs, which might change
traditional ways of money attraction and replace
crowdfunding platforms.