المؤلفون: Goalen, Kaitlyn

المصدر: Gastronomica; Winter2011, Vol. 11 Issue 4, p93-98, 6p

مصطلحات موضوعية: CROWD funding, FUNDRAISING, BUSINESS finance, RESTAURANT finance, MICROFINANCE, COMPUTER network resources

الشركة/الكيان: KICKSTARTER PBC

People: CHEN, Perry, 1976-, STRICKLER, Yancey

مستخلص: The article offers information on the Kickstarter Inc. online forum website that provides crowd funding services and fundraising venue for proposed businesses like restaurants. It says that the site was launched in 2009 and serves as an online microlending platform, in which anyone with business proposals who needs financial support can submit their project to the site. It adds that the site was founded by Perry Chen and Yancey Strickler due to their frustrations in launching creative projects.

المؤلفون: Sangani, Kris

المصدر: Engineering & Technology (17509637); Apr2014, Vol. 9 Issue 3, p82-83, 2p, 2 Color Photographs

مصطلحات موضوعية: CROWD funding, FUNDRAISING, NEW business enterprises, SOCIAL media, ECONOMICS, COMPUTER network resources

مستخلص: The article focuses on the use of crowdfunding, process of asking for money from strangers, practices for the financing of the technology startups and for investing in the risky technology projects. Topics discussed include launching of the open-source crowdfunding platform software Selfstarter, rules and time limits on the campaigns raised for crowdfunding, and importance of crowdfunding for publicity of the startups through social media.

المؤلفون: Sisler, Julia

المصدر: Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ); 2/7/2012, Vol. 184 Issue 2, pE123-E124, 2p, 1 Color Photograph

مصطلحات موضوعية: FUNDRAISING, CROWD funding, MEDICAL care, COMPUTER network resources

مصطلحات جغرافية: UNITED States

People: AUSTIN, Ethan

مستخلص: The article focuses on the use of websites in the U.S. in raising funds to help in paying medical bills. It states that some observers view the emergence of websites including GiveForward, GoFundMe, and YouCaring, as a symptom of the failing health care system in the U.S. GiveForward co-founder Ethan Austin says that the popularity of crowdfunding websites shows how desperate many Americans are when their friends or relative got sick.