The largest online crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has been around for five years and is celebrating this with a launch in the Netherlands. As of April 29, 2014, it is possible to start projects in euros with a Dutch bank account. This has removed a considerable threshold for small Dutch initiatives to easily find their way to the global pot of funds and enthusiastic backers.
Kickstarter started in 2009 as a way to crowdfund creative projects in particular, thereby belarus mobile phone number list offering small independent projects the opportunity to be successful. After five years, it turns out that more than six million people have supported more than sixty thousand projects with a total value of more than a billion. Even leaving aside the many projects that failed and still fail daily on Kickstarter, that in itself is a great success.
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Crowdfunding brings producer and consumer very close together. This is scary because your future customer gets involved very early in the creation process, but the chance it offers to show yourself weighs much more heavily.