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Some of the Year’s Strangest Crowdfundings

Year end lists have to include strangest crowdfunding campaigns. My list includes: Brony Fair 2016, potato salad, a new line of designer condoms that sport artistic designs, a guy who would, for $1.5M delete his (Sam Pepper’s) YouTube account (a … Continue reading

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Crowdfunding No Longer the Exception

Crowdfunding independent films is now almost expected. Look at the stats: 10% of this year’s Sundance selections and 16.5% of the upcoming South By Southwest film selections were crowdfunded, mostly on Kickstarter. That site said that 17 films raised over … Continue reading

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