Wondering if crowdfunding platforms might be a boost for your new business venture? We are here to empower businesses looking for help & strategies around asking for donations. What is crowdfunding? Crowdfunding is where you get a lot of people to invest in your idea, rather than finding one person to come up with everything you need. Crowdfunding is basically crowdsourced money. Everyone chips in a little bit to achieve the ultimate goal. But while you can ask your friends and family to each kick in some cash, you don’t necessarily want to ask 500 people to write you a check or hand you 20 bucks. For one thing, it can be uncomfortable and awkward. For another, it’s time-consuming. Instead, you can use a crowdfunding platform to manage all the collections and give you a central location to share your ideas, along with the materials and videos that explain what you’re trying to accomplish. In this video, we cover 4 different platforms in this video, but here is a list of 20 that you could use for your business: