Crowdfunding vs. Crowdsourcing: Money vs Ideas

Crowdfunding is not new and was born at the same time as Internet. But it was from the social networking boom, in recent years, when the crowdfunding is widespread and growing together with crowdsourcing. 

They were born many platforms focused on getting funding for independent projects that use the structure of a social network and also successfully promoted their most important initiatives, such as Facebook and Twitter. In these users can be assured of not being alone in believing in a particular project and is an effect of sympathy that leads others to participate.

Crowdfunding has gained strength with a number of new services that are dedicated to finding financing for business projects with potential. If the company succeeds or gets to be bought by a larger, donors can receive money for their actions.

Crowdfunding Platforms

1. Kickstarter has become famous because some of the companies that have come to her have secured funding in record time to start developing, including Diaspora, a social network similar to Facebook but which gives its users full ownership of your data. In 2012, on Kickstarter alone, 2.2 million people pledged a total of almost $3.8 million, and successfully funded over 18,000 projects.
2. Indiegogo: this crowdfunding site is aimed to help you raise funds and make you personal project without any difficulty
3. Rockethub The site boasts a 3-step simple process to upload your project. You can then track the progress and status of your project. If you are just interested in crowdfunding, you can go for FuelPad, but RocketHub’s winning feature is the launchpad.
4. Gofundme: If you’re looking to just raise money online, for a cause, or for yourself even, GoFundMe is the best fundraising option you can use. In here, you get supporters to donate for your personal campaign, no matter the subject.
5. Razoo: Claiming to have raised more than $97,000,000 for thousands of worthy causes, the site focuses heavily on causes than profitable projects, but they do have a dedicated section for non-profit fundraising projects. 
6. Sellaband: Since its launch in 2006, Sellaband has coordinated recording sessions of more than 80 music artists, and, over $4,000,000 have been funded to music bands via the site.
7. Appbackr: It offers you a chance to let the backers fund the apps that are currently on sale or in the stage of development, but backers could earn back their money by backing the app!
8. Crowdfunder: allows U.S. startup and small businesses to raise funds by selling equity, debt and revenue-based securities, while attracting Angel Investors and Venture Capital to your company.
9. StudentDonate, as the name suggests, allows people to donate money to cash-strapped students in order for them to afford a higher education.