Crowdfunding for GreEn
Published in Books and Articles, Business Skills on December 20, 2010
As the experience has shown innovation can be measured by 2 factors: exceptionality of your idea/product/service/ and the success rate in terms of finances. Innovation never comes only with one of these two features. But as we all know, usually the hardest thing to do is to wrap up your idea into a real action-plan and to launch it.
Failure is the worst. But the beginning could be worse.
Hearing the great thoughts of the young entrepreneurs during the Co-Creation Workshop on GreEn lead me to the conclusion that even a small motivation can give you the push, which you need. In that case usually (although being a social innovator) you need money as every normal start up. The problem is that usually you have no idea how to find the needed starting capital to take any further action and to feel empowered.
I would like to present you the Crowd funding model as one of the most successful strategies and solutions with minimal risk for young entrepreneurs and change makers.
According to Wikipedia, the term describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money and other resources together, usually via the Internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations. Crowdfunding occurs for any variety of purposes, from disaster relief to citizen journalism to artists seeking support from fans, to political campaigns, to funding a startup company or small business.
Bellow you will find the list of several crowdfunding platforms, where you can promote your project, idea or campaign:
Enjoy!
Thank you, Lucy
That sounds interesting and usuful. I will review them as soon as I have time.
so good, excellent overview Lucy! I like the crowdfunding/sourcing idea a lot : )
Thank you Lucy,…
This is brilliant. Regards to everyone!
Happy to hear such positive comments. Would some of you try out the platforms with some real initiatives? That will be a real case study to prove that this method works for everyone if the project is good enough! Action, people!