[SpaceProgram] Fwd: Shaping Crowdfunding 2.0 | Entrepreneur.com

[Jerry Isdale]

Here's an article on RocketHub - the science oriented crowd source (kickstarter) site I mentioned last week....
   http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/223551 

I talked with Alon Hillel-Tuch (CFO) at Maker Faire.  He had some interesting suggestions ...
1) RocketHub.org is a site that helps train scientists, etc to do crowd funding
2) To help vet grant proposals, have them do a crowd funding project ... this shows how well they can interact and promote their project.  If they can't get funding, they probably are not worth the grant $$.
3)  if they do get crowd funding, there are sources that may provide matching funds.   A project could do a $1000 crowd funding, get $1000 matching from HSP and another $1000 from RocketHub's match program.

hmmm.
 
Jerry Isdale
isdale at gmail.com



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