Fifty Shades of Crowdfunding - 50 Worldwide Crowdfunding Platforms Reviewed

By Davide Magrini

This book, first of all, wants to be a quick guide for those who are looking to fund their projects using a crowdfunding platform. In this book you can find 50 of the most working crowdfunding platforms, described for their main features, so that you can make your selection and finally choose the right platform that should be useful to fund your project.
This book is written after a previous scan of dozens of websites and crowdfunding guides and after a previous check of more than 400 crowdfunding platforms websites, that eventually led us to the selection of 50. In the meanwhile some changes could have happened, in that case we'd be glad if you report it to our email you an find inside. We would be glad, anyway, to receive your opinion and specially recommendations to improve this guide. As you understand this guide could be edited again, brushed up and with more platforms reviewed, so please help us doing that!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Feb 21, 2014
• ISBN: 9781291755381

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Introduction

This book, first of all, wants to be a quick guide for those who are looking to fund their projects using a crowdfunding platform. It won't explain you what is crowdfunding, its story, how to apply and get funded and so on, there are a lot of such guides for beginners and for experts. Looking in the bookstores, instead, you can find that there's a lack of guides to find the right platform for your project. Yes, there are various websites that are trying to collect as much platforms as possible, but often those websites merely report URLs, headoffice, emails, and a very short description of one-two lines. In this book you can find 50 of the most working crowdfunding platforms, described for their main features, so that you can make your selection and finally choose the right platform that should be useful to fund your project.

This book is written after a previous scan of dozens of websites and crowdfunding guides and after a previous check of more than 400 crowdfunding platforms websites, that eventually led us to the selection of 50. For the descriptions of platforms we helped using Wikipedia, when possible and useful, using platforms websites, of course, and in some cases other useful sources. This work has been done from October 2013 to February 2014, so in the meanwhile some changes could have happened, in that case we'd be glad if you report it to the email [e-mail]. We would be glad, anyway, to receive your opinion and specially recommendations to improve this guide. As you understand this guide could be edited again, brushed up and with more platforms reviewed, so please help us doing that!

Instructions

Hereafter there are few tips to let you understand how is the guide written.

Platforms are reported in alphabetic order.

For every platform you will find these features described:

Name of the platform.

Website.

Funding Model: KiA means Keep it All, AoN means All or Nothing. You can find other models. If you don't know the meaning we suggest to look for it in the web.

Focus: shows you the topic of projects you can fund by this platform.

Fees: It's the fee retained by the platform (usually only on funded projects). You can find here credit cards operator fees too.

Country: It's the country from where is possible to apply for a project.

Available languages: useful tip to know if the platform is usable in your language.

About: Main description of the platform.

Notes: Some shots useful to know.

Communication tools: social networks sharing buttons, apps, blog, embedding tools for your website, and so on. It's very useful that the platform you use can make you easy to share and communicate your project.

Now you're ready to go! Have a good tour and make your best choice!

1and700

Web: www.1and700.com

Funding Model: AoN.

Focus: Angel Investment, Arts & Entertainment, Earth & The Government, Education, Family, Media, Religion.

Fees: 10% on every donation that is made.

Country: US, worldwide.

Available languages: English.

About: 1&700 is a Faith-based social crowd funding in Christian companies and projects solving the world's biggest needs. We enable everyone to invest and show love through giving. Make a social impact, and earn financial rewards. 1&700 believes in giving; "It is more blessed to give than to take. 1and700.com is a portfolio for Manna Holding and Sponsored by the MANNA FOR ALL Foundation.

A featured project is Rapture A Kimber Eastwood Production, the storyline is: a compelling tale of a group of people encountering their quest to find the Lord and their final destination. All focusing on the heavenly afterlife and the hope of mankind in the end time. The second film project is Chariots at the Gate: Eric Liddell is about finding awe in the darkest of places. It is a story of love, bravery and sacrifice. A story about someone who felt God’s heartbeat and through unquestioning faith walked in His Love.

1and700.com was created by Christian missionaries to reclaim the 7 mountains of society by using the innovation of crowd funding in the Christian Community. 1 stands for God’s Kingdom and 700 stands for 7 mountains of society. 1and700.com aims to bring God’s Kingdom to 7 mountains, building heaven on the earth. 1and700 will help Christian to make the mandates OF Loving each other a reality by providing funding and resources.

Notes: The MANNA FOR ALL Foundation will defeat hatred by bringing love to this world. If each of us contribute a little, the world will be full of love. 1and700.com is the first project the foundation initiated. The MANNA FOR ALL Foundation’s second project is SOLOMO mobile application, a location-based mobile phone app that connects global Christians together through real-time position tracking. When people of Faith are connected and united through our technology initiatives, the foundation will advance God's territory by affecting the seven spheres, or mountains of society; business, government, media, arts/entertainment, education, family and religion.

Notes: Nowadays there are no active campaigns.

Communication tools: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, iOS App.

AppSplit

Web: www.appsplit.com

Funding Model: KiA or AoN.

Focus: Apps, Software.

Fees: 10% fee of total funds raised for open campaigns – 5% fee for all-or-none campaigns.

Country: US, worldwide.

Available languages: English.

About: Appsplit is a San Diego, California based company founded in 2010 that provides an online platform to raise funds, find freelancers or sell apps via crowd sourcing. It