Crowd Funding

See blog post for crowd funding report.

=Free or Open Source Platforms=
 * http://giveloop.com/video - free service
 * http://beex.org/ - open source platform; free
 * https://elveos.org - website, dedicated to financing open source, developed under AGPL

=from Ira Mollay at http://iramollay.net=
 * http://www.wikando.com/
 * http://www.thepoint.com
 * http://www.bettertheworld.com
 * http://www.betterplace.org/
 * http://www.greedyorneedy.com/
 * http://www.wishdom.com (those are actually more about getting wishes fulfilled ...)
 * http://www.chipin.com/
 * http://www.createafund.com/
 * http://firstgiving.com/
 * http://www.fundable.com/
 * http://laraghfinance.com/
 * http://www.pledgebank.com/

=From Ben Lipkowitz=

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system

rational street performer protocol http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/rspp

open source hardware bank - unfortunately they only seem to be promoting their own projects. http://www.oshwbank.org/

From: MichaelNorton  Date: 2009/5/7 Subject: Notes on crowd fundraising To: MichaelNorton 

Dear all

Thank you for coming to our session on crowdfunding yesterday.

I am enclosing a note which I prepared for you.

If you are interested in becoming a pioneer venture, then please come back to me. The next step then would be for you to answer a questionnaire (which I am preparing) and then for us to meet together to flesh out the “offer” to ”believers”. At the moment we have no clear date for launch, but are hoping it will be in the autumn. If you are intersted, please contact me.

For those who expressed an interest in becoming crowd investors, I will also be preparing a prospectus, and at this stage we want to log your interest in making an investment in our venture (so at the moment this will be without any firm commitment on either side), and will launch our investment offer when certain aspects of our venture have been finalised. Four of those attending expressed interst to us. If anyone else wants to express an interest, please contact me.

Best wishes, Michael Norton