Crowd funding
May 19th, 2009 by News
Howzabout this as a heart-warming allegory for the democratising power of the world-wide-web:
Kickstarter.com is a new artist-initiated web community that crowd funds great ideas. A bit like an online ‘Dragon’s Den’ (without the ritual humiliation, tears and smug millionaires), a community of backers donate sums of money to support the realisation of projects they like. Kickstarter’s kickback is that project creators reward their backers in lots of individual ways… none of them financial
