This Kickstarter for Startups Will Trade Equity for Funding

Kickstarter may have provided millions of dollars in seed funding for startups such as Pebble Technology, but the company — which has raised more than $200 million for 22,000 products — has no intention of becoming a crowdfunding hub in the literal investment sense.

“We’re not gearing up for the equity wave if it comes,” Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen said in a recent interview with GigaOm. “The real disruption is doing it without equity.”

The Really Big Guide Of Small Business Success Tips

In business, size does matter, especially if that size is small. Independent businesses with fewer than 500 employees represent 99.7% of all employer firms, according to the SBA’s Office of Advocacy. They employ about half of all private sector employees, which make up about 43% of the country’s private payroll. And more than half are based out of an owner’s home. Incidentally, don’t knock the domicile as a business incubator. After all, that’s where Apple, Hershey’s, Mary Kay Cosmetics, and Ford started.

What is Crowd Funding? [BAF Workshop Series]

To get ready for the November 29th Workshop on New Marketing Techniques, we are posting videos from the summer mentee workshop; Access to Funding Resources and Tools to Grow Your Business.

In this first video, the panel discusses Crowd Funding and how it can be beneficial to start ups.