The Daily Dose

In just a few years, crowdfunding has found a firm place in the tech industry, with many companies launching campaigns to fund their products. Current Kickstarter stats tell us that almost $2 billion have already been pledged on the platform by 9.5 million people. Traditionally, Kickstarter and Indiegogo had been the places for startups working on a shoestring to get a chance of funding without giving up equity or selling founders’ houses. However, that has changed. With crowdfunding going mainstream, we started to see larger companies resorting to it, although apparently they don’t struggle to find enough money to launch another…

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