Financing by and for the masses

Financing by and for the masses

1. What is Crowdfunding?

   • The idea that an entrepreneur would raise funds from hundreds of investors, which each provides a small amount
   • Crowdfunding have a diversity of platforms
     • Equity
     • Debt
     • Rewards-Based
     • Charity

2. Crowdfunding and the Entreprenuer

   • It is a great opportunity for Entreprenuers, including women and minority, to raise funds for their own projects and show people and investors what is about.
     • It is a great opportunity because a lot of people doesn't have contacts or know people who want to be an investor for their projects, so with the Crowdfunding people can transmit their ideas and raise funds to make them a reality

3. Crowdfunding and the Investors

   • Although it is a risk to invest in a startup, is really it's enthusiastic to invest in a project that they like. Sometime you have benefits if the project goes well, of coures it's a risk but you never know if they will be the next Apple or Facebook.

4. The future of Crowdfunding

   • although it is a new way for an investment of a project, it appears to be that Crowdfunding will be trending in the future. In some cases there were frauds, but everytime there is more and more security about the project, and more important, about the investors, and there will be a lot of different plataforms that will have more places and projects to invest.