Beauty of Crowdfunding

<p>Crowdfunding is emerging as a new source of financing for creativity and innovation. It promotes the launching and scaling of new projects for different types of creators by providing networked platforms and handy digital tools. </p><p>This book provides insight into crowdfunding and how crowdfunding contributes to our communities and society. The book includes an overview of existing discussions across different disciplines i.e. entrepreneurship information systems marketing and correlates the literature to the best crowdfunding practices.</p><p>The book begins with origins basic notions and antecedents of crowdfunding. In the main parts it demonstrates the five distinguished facets of crowdfunding: Creativity diversity balance connection and change. It also addresses the drawbacks of crowdfunding and subsequent outcomes of crowdfunding success. Finally it provides a perspective on the future of crowdfunding.</p>