Introduction to crowd funding, p2p investing and crowd sourcing, especially for media, broadcasting and content companies; includes practical examples. The presentation especially focus to describe models, how to get crowd funding and sourcing to work with more traditional models.
15. Crowdsourcing is, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary,
the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by
soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and
especially from an online community, rather than from traditional
employees or suppliers.
Crowd funding or crowdfunding (alternately crowd financing, equity
crowdfunding, or hyper funding) explains the collective effort of
individuals who network and pool their money, usually via the
Internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations.
Crowdfunding is used in support of a wide variety of activities,
including disaster relief, citizen journalism, support of artists by
fans, political campaigns, startup company funding, motion
picture promotion, free software development, inventions
development, scientific research, and civic projects.
Source: Wikipedia