3 Solid Reasons Why Kickstarter Money Is Far Better Than Foundation Grants
Every early entrepreneur dreams of getting funding especially funding free from constraints. Flexibility and freedom to do what it takes to build the startup can be amazingly empowering. With dreams comes some amount of dread in the form of the magical investor and their mysterious ways. New articles are published every day about approaching investors, talking terms and long fund raising cycles. What if I told you there is another way an enchanting path that gets you to your funding dream only on the basis of your idea or product, the demand for it and some creative marketing. I present Kickstarter and the rise of crowdfunding. I must admit, until now I never fully understood the power of crowdfunding and how its so much better than traditional funders like Foundations — at least not until I spoke to Meredith of Ricefield Collective. Meredith recently raised a close to $100k dollars using Kickstarter to set up a social enterprise to help the indigenous people of the Philippines. Her idea was to teach these indigenous folk who have been …