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Thesis: Crowdfunding

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Crowdfunding - Statistics & Facts. 92834651-Massolution-abridged-Crowd-Funding-Industry-Report1.pdf. Dollar for dollar raised, Kickstarter dominates Indiegogo SIX times over — on startups. While freelancing in the crowdfunding space, Edward (@ejunprung) and I noticed a huge size discrepancy between Kickstarter and Indiegogo.

Dollar for dollar raised, Kickstarter dominates Indiegogo SIX times over — on startups

We decided to fully size Indiegogo up and compare their numbers with Kickstarter’s publicly available statistics to see just how much bigger Kickstarter is. 6 Eye Opening Insights Cumulatively, Kickstarter (KS) has over 110,000 campaigns while our scrape found 44,000 campaigns on Indiegogo (IGG). However, through multiple scrapes over a month, we discovered that IGG de-list failed campaigns that raised less than $500.KS ($612M) has successfully raised over 6 times more dollars than IGG ($99M).KS has had 40 projects raise $1M+ while IGG only has had 4.The average success rate on KS is 44%. Based on the total number of campaigns we found in our scrape, we calculate IGG’s success rate to be 34%. See the full side by side comparison table.

Our Thoughts Caveat Methodology See the raw data here. Notes: Mart EversMart Evers. Kickstarter vs Indiegogo – By the Numbers. The Ubuntu Edge campaign, which raised $10,267,352 on Indiegogo from more than 22,053 contributions, highlighted the enormous potential of crowdfunding campaigns.

Kickstarter vs Indiegogo – By the Numbers

At the same time, it also highlighted the limitations of Indiegogo as compared to Kickstarter, since the campaign fell far short of its desired goal of $32 million.Kickstarter and Indiegogo, both launched at around the same time in 2008-09, are unquestionably the two big dogs in this arena. But which one is better? To be more precise, which one is better suited for your project? Let’s hash out the numbers and examine each platform’s policies. Until recently, it was hard to compare Kickstarter vs Indiegogo because Indiegogo does not reveal statistics about the number of projects, pledges and total amounts raised.

Here’s the Kickstarter summary (as of Sept 3, 2013) As mentioned above, Indiegogo does not make stats similar to those above public. Indiegogo’s performance Policies are much more flexible on IndieGoGo. Review of Crowdfunding Regulation 2013 - Symbid. Interpretations of existing regulation concerning crowdfunding in Europe, North America and Israel The ECN Review of Crowdfunding Regulation 2013 considers the varying applications of the single market legislation to Crowdfunders across Europe both now and in the foreseeable future.

Review of Crowdfunding Regulation 2013 - Symbid

Furthermore it takes a look at the Crowdfunding regulation in other relevant countries abroad.. Published by: European Crowdfunding Network, Belgium (2013). The rise of crowdfunding over the past decade is a result of the on-going digitalisation of processes and communication in our society, with easy access to high-speed internet and digital devices. But crowdfunding has recently been moved to the forefront in the discussion on access to finance. The ECN Review of Crowdfunding Regulation 2013 considers the varying applications of the single market legislation to Crowdfunders across Europe both now and in the foreseeable future.

Global crowdfunding volumes rise 81 percent in 2012. Crowdfunding Nederland. Welcome to Forbes. CROWDFUNDING REPORTS. Crowdfunding Nederland. Investment Crowdfunding Data.