The magic of crowdfunding

Inventions funded by Kickstarter
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In this system, investors are offered several ways of infusing funds and choosing their type of returns. Companies who run crowdfunding platforms then earn through receiving a percentage of the funding or through fixed service fees. The most common type is the “reward-based” crowdfunding where investors get to participate in developing the business and receive a gift or the product developed. Growing popularity in this area are small video game developers who reward their investors copies of the game that they created or when developers of VR modules hand out the first batch of VR devices to their benefactors.