Yesterday was a great event to get to from Funders and founders "Crowdfunding Your Startup - The Future of Startup Funding", dedicated to the problem of obtaining funds to implement an idea or a project from community members. I was glad to learn that Anna Vital a community organized originally from Kharkiv, she moved to San Francisco about 10 years ago. As it turned out to invest in the project may not be everyone, it needs to meet certain criteria. In addition, many projects simply are not born due to lack of funds to implement the prototype, and its not really worth to go to the angels without it. This issue formed the basis for the implementation of a special platform IndieGoGo - which allows you to collect money from other people who can help release your idea.
Based on the experience - Representative Eric Leibowitz IndieGoGo says that it is best to present information honestly and truthfully.
In America, many people are willing to help and provide just the amount to be involved in any project .. If you have an idea of technological products - lay out information and share their ideas. Update the information in the course of the project! If for some reason you could not realize - most likely no one will blame you.
Very good helps to ensure a means of compiling a list of thanks - for example, you can send to everyone who has allocated an amount X greeting ecards, or t-shirt project. Questions were raised taxes - there is a certain threshold amount, which you can get. Also - have been affected by interesting ideas start of the project using a pre-purchase. For example, you want to open a coffee shop and talk about what you discover in advance for a cup of coffee - the ones who give you money to actually fund the business. Your task - to try to fulfill the obligations and start working. By the way, do not talk about it as the only way to get funding. Crowdfunding can complicate getting the following investments.
By the way, the yield on Facebook IPO is not justified the need for funding and the requirement of the State of re-training company in the public if it has more than 500 shareholders.
In general a lot of information learned - perhaps it would be an interesting idea for a similar project in Ukraine. And of course it's worth a try in action - now placed our Picuzzle - let's see how to actually get money for the project for the Ukrainian team ..