Earlier this month Berkeley’s Fung Institute hosted an academic symposium on crowdfunding – the first large gathering to include both industry and researchers working in the field. Industry representatives provided some interesting perspectives on the process of regulating from countries including the UK, Korea and the US. The research framing was, […]
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Sustainability is one of the biggest questions marks around crowdfunding and its long-term viability. Campaigns are framed intentionally as time-limited, one time opportunities – a form of gamification that creates urgency and momentum. But once the fanfare of the campaign is over, who will pay for the ongoing running costs […]
As the field of civic crowdfunding emerges and grows, it is spawning many competing visions of what the field is and where its appeal comes from. Lately I’ve been thinking about questions such as: how much is crowdfunding about community and shared values? How much is it about physical places? […]
I was sad to note today that, with 14 days to go, The New York City Opera has raised less than 10% of the ambitious $1 million target the organization set itself on Kickstarter earlier this month. The ‘People’s Opera’ has struggled in recent years. It closed its doors in […]
Spike Lee joins Zach Braff and Rob Ford’s Veronica Mars on the list of celebrities to turn to Kickstarter to fund a project. It now seems that no star is too big — or too cool — to crowdfund. But what does the arrival of big names mean for the future of crowdfunding? With […]