Crowdfunding Archives

5 Ways to Get Your Startup Funded in 2024

Funding one’s startup can be challenging, especially if this is one’s first foray into business ownership. As we venture into 2024, an estimated 3.2 million people are going to be kicking off their businesses. They...

byJT Ripton

February 14, 2024

Transforming Crowdfunding Prospects into Solid Backers: A Guide for Startups

While most ideas are fleeting thoughts, forgotten within seconds, everyone once in a while, a great one comes along that’s worth pursuing as a business. Turning that great idea into a thriving business requires capital...

byAmy Remark

August 11, 2023

From Startup Nonprofits to Major Players, the 6 Keys to Growth in 2023

In order to make an impact in the nonprofit sector, it is important for organizations to understand and embrace the primary growth factors that will be at play in the coming year. While there are...

byGaurav Belani

January 4, 2023

10 Tips on Running a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign for New Entrepreneurs

Over the past decade, crowdfunding has revolutionized the way startups generate capital and secure investment. In fact, in 2019, the global crowdfunding market reached a massive $13.93 billion, with this figure estimated to triple to...

byYasmine Mustafa

April 14, 2022

14 Funding Tips From Entrepreneurs Who’ve Been There

As an entrepreneur, what is your best tip to secure funding for a startup? To help you with securing funding for your startup, we asked small business owners and entrepreneurs this question for their best...

byBrett Farmiloe

April 4, 2022

Crowdfunding is on the Rise: Here’s What That Means for Entrepreneurs

It's fair to say that starting a business is bittersweet, especially in 2021. On one hand, it's exciting to realize your entrepreneurial dream, but on the other hand, common challenges like raising business capital can...

byJudd Hollas

December 15, 2021

Ask the Experts: Armando Ojeda, Angela Barbash, and Marcia Dawood on StartupNation Radio

On this week's episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff speaks with StartupNation's subject matter experts from SCORE Mentors: Armando Ojeda, Angela Barbash, and Marcia Dawood. Tune in to the full StartupNation Radio show with Ojeda, Barbash...

byStartupNation

August 30, 2021

WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Angel Funding In Our Local Startup Ecosystem (Episode 273)

On today's Business Beat, Jeff explains the importance of angel investors, featuring a few words from Dan Bober, a successful local angel investor in the Detroit and Southeastern Michigan area. Tune in to the Business...

byStartupNation

August 11, 2021

Female Founders, Get Funding Now with These 4 Alternatives to VC

In 2019, venture capital investment into U.S. startups nearly doubled from $88 billion to $144 billion. So, while it comes as no surprise that 2019 was also a record year for female founders securing these...

byCharlotte DeMocker

July 28, 2021

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs

If you need capital to get your business started, you might turn to crowdfunding to raise those funds. Reaching out to venture capitalists and angel investors is stressful; you’ll need a pitch deck, there’s no...

byAnna Johansson

September 15, 2018

5 Ways That a Kickstarter Campaign Can Launch You Into Retail

Seven months. That's how long it took from the day our Kickstarter campaign ended until we were delivering a purchase order to Toys R Us. And soon after came Bed Bath & Beyond, Hobby Lobby...

byMatthew Damman

January 24, 2018

Perfect Your Pitch to Exceed Your Crowdfunding Campaign Goal

SunPort is a solar startup that blew its crowdfunding goal out of the water by promising to deliver solar energy to anyone with access to an outlet. SunPort’s Kickstarter campaign exceeded its goal by more...

byDaniel Matthews

December 6, 2017

How to Calculate Crowdfunding Shipping and Fulfillment Costs

In recent years, crowdfunding has become one of the most common methods of funding startups. According to CrowdExpert, global crowdfunding is a $34 billion industry with peer-to-peer lending of $25 billion, reward-and-donation crowdfunding of $5.5...

byJennifer Xue

August 11, 2017

What to Do When Your Startup’s Crowdfunding Campaign Fails

Did you try but fail to raise money through crowdfunding? While crowdfunding is a great idea in theory, in execution, only 35 percent of Kickstarter projects earn the requested amount of money. If your campaign...

byDerek Miller

August 4, 2017

How to Make a Killer Crowdfunding Campaign Video [Book Excerpt]

The following is excerpted from "The Crowdsourceress: Get Smart, Get Funded and Kickstart Your Next Big Idea," by Alex Daly. Copyright © 2017. Available from PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of...

byAlex Daly

June 27, 2017

How to Create a Viral Crowdfunding Video Campaign in 8 Steps

Numbers don’t lie. Statistics at Kickstarter show that crowdfunding video campaigns have a higher than average success rate of getting funded. According to Kickstarter’s numbers, campaigns that have videos are 85 percent more likely to...

byFelix Tarcomnicu

May 21, 2017

Social Finance and Retirement Account Loans

The world of finance for entrepreneurs and startups has gradually been changing since the last recession with alternative lending platforms and programs that illustrate the potential beyond the traditional funding sources. Now that new government regulations...

byJohn Rampton

January 8, 2017

Fintech, Venture Capital and Your Company

Venture capitalists have moved on from social media apps and photo filters. The new interest is financial services, especially lending. This may create new options for small businesses looking for new sources of funding. The...

byAnn Logue

November 7, 2016

How to Engage Your Community in a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign

Connecting with an engaged online community is key to a successful crowdfunding campaign. But it’s not enough to just gather followers and share your campaign. Once you’ve identified your community, it’s helpful to fine-tune your...

byAriel Hyatt

October 25, 2016

What Small Businesses Should Know About Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is the most exciting area of business fundraising these days. Instead of presenting financials to bankers, companies bring their product ideas to potential customers and ask for commitments. Kickstarter, the largest crowdfunding platform, had...

byAnn Logue

April 6, 2016