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The general purpose of this chapter is to describe and analyse the financing
phenomenon of crowdfunding and to investigate the relations between crowdfunders,
project creators and crowdfunding websites. More specifically, it also
intends to describe the profile differences between major crowdfunding platforms,
such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The results showed that both Kickstarter and
Indiegogo are among the most popular crowdfunding platforms. Both of them have
thousands of users and these users are generally satisfied. Most of them rely on
individual approaches for crowdfunding. Despite this, Kickstarter and Indiegogo
could benefit from further improving their services. Furthermore, according to the
results, it was possible to observe that there is a direct and positive relationship
between the money needed for the projects and the money collected from the investors
for the projects, per platform.
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Keywords
Crowdfunding Crowdfunders
Citation
Zohrabyan, Shavarsh; Fernandes, Paula O.; Lopes, Rui Pedro; García, José Álvarez (2017). Connecting funding to entrepreneurs: a profile of the main crowdfunding platforms. In Peris-Ortiz, Marta; Ferreira, João J. (eds.) Cooperative and Networking Strategies in Small Business. Springer International Publishing. p. 97-129. ISBN 978-3-319-44509-0-7
Publisher
Springer International Publishing