The Essentials of Crowdfunding | Online

About this class

The extraordinary success of Kickstarter projects like Pebble, Printrbot, and the Elevation Dock offers an exciting new model for turning your prototype into a mass-market product. According to Massolutions, a market-research firm, the forecast shows that $2.8 billion will be raised globally in 2012 via crowdfunding, an 87 percent increase from 2011.

In this crowdfunding workshop, David Harvilicz and Melissa Choi from crowdfunding website When You Wish will be introducing students to crowdfunding and it’s place in our evolving economy. This workshop will take you through all of the major steps involved in the planning and execution of a crowdfunding campaign.