Saturday, June 8, 2013

Advantages Of Crowd Funding Entrepreneurship

By Lora Jones


There's a new trend in the business industry and it has captured the attention of everybody, even the whole world. Crowd funding entrepreneurship is another option that young and eager yet obviously low funded entrepreneurs to get some pledges and finally have the funds to support their business or product.

Crowdfunding is simply a community that supports each other and fund dreams, projects and ideas. It also describe a group of people coming together to support other individual's or organization's projects through funding. Although it's one of the latest and newest option for one to generate money for his project the concept of such transaction is not exactly new.

It came from all sorts of business investing such as microfinancing, microlending which then evolved into peer to peer lending and lastly crowdfunding. Both established and potentialsmall business owners can make used of crowdfunding platforms to be able to star his project. Though there have been several success through such transaction, that does not mean it's all good in here.

To be able to start a project or product, the company or a person has to post his idea and the amount of cash he needs to generate and how would he pay their money back, if such option is indeed applicable. Technological advancements play a big role on this industry, with the efficiency and accessibility of the internet, starting the process was easier.

However, crownfunding has its own disadvantages too. For an instance, it could offer limited amount of funds, the generated funds could be subject to security regulations and gives a higher chance that your idea could be copied as you expose it to the public. There have been several websites or platforms for this one and most of which are gaining popularity as well as improving their business.

Indeed, entrepreneurs have to prove to their backers, who so willingly donated their money that their products will be of great use and with great quality. Backers can donate any amount of money, some sites allow potential backers to donate as little as one dollar. Obviously, modern technology plays a major part on the success of crowdfunding.

These websites or platforms offer support to several ideas such as mobile applications, creative projects, inventions, business start ups. There are those that help fund local small businesses and struggling artists, social entrepreneurs whose projects are related to supporting the community and so on. With modern technology almost nothing is impossible.

This concept would most probably be laughed at many years before. More so, without the advancement of technology communication has become more convenient and easy. Any form of business can be funded through these websites from leisure and tourism, food and drink, professional business, consumer products, oil and gas, even financial services.

To ensure success on your business, it is highly essential to make a very entertaining and informative crowd funding entrepreneurship campaign. You have to story tell and engage funders to your idea, offer rewards, stay active in social network sites, offer them incentives or anything great, make videos and lastly, be creative and always remember to show your personality.




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