crowdfunding

I've heard about Black Hat for some time and just now jumping in. Glad to be here. I am a Crowdfunding Expert, Consultant ... or Guru as some might want to say because the industry is fairly new. I love crowdfunding and the opportunity it allows for just about anyone to make their dream into a...

Hello BHW, A friend just told me about this site and I love it already. Here to learn and advise on crowdfunding whenever I can. Ask me.

3-4 years ago I was heavy into the crowdfunding game. I promoted over 200 projects. Just recently I picked up a smart phone company called Comet on IndieGogo and have given them over 1 million tweets in less than a week and it seems to be picking up. If you have a project out there and are...

Hi Everyone, I have been reading this forum for years but never really had anything to post so I just recently signed up for an account. I want to start by saying sorry if I am breaking any forum rules I dont mean to so if I am please just let me know as I am here to learn. Some Background...

Hopefully this is in an approiate enough section. I am looking for a crowdfunding site that accepts paypal as donation/payment and allows the person fundraising to withdraw via paypal. Patreon is the only one I am aware of right now.

Just wondering if anyone here has used these platforms (or other crowdfunding systems) and how did it go. Thanks

Hey all. I noticed that on several of my favorite aggregator sites they had posted their own 'Worst Kickstarter Projects of 2014' last year around this time, so I figured I might as well kick off a thread to that effect here for 2015. Feel free to post (what you think is) the WORST project (or...

Hi, Looking for some help promoting a crowdfunding technology campaign. Open to ideas around: Forum Posting Blog Posting Reddit Posting Social Media Growth Hacking Email Scraping Anything that can drive relevant traffic and boost the funding number, I'm interested in. If the results are...

I'm an old school hacker who used to run WarezDotCom in the P2P filessharing days so I know the power of the underground to market and promote a project. I'm looking for someone who is proficient in Twitter bot programs as well as all the other tricks in the book to drive massive traffic to a...

Good evening all, My name is Manolis Sfinarolakis. Since last night when I found this site, I probably have spent a good 10 hours on it trying to make sense of all the amazing information in the forums. The community here is informative and collaborative, and I hope to also contribute to the...

Hey guys, I'm a little hesitant to post this but I've come to the point where I'm going to make a public appeal for your help, advice. and guidance. Basically I have a friend, a close friend, who is dying this very moment of pancreatic cancer. I met with him earlier today and they've placed him...

I am in the process of starting a crowdfunding site. A general site like Gofundme Has anyone here started one and have any suggestions on marketing of these types of sites. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have the site design and back end completed just wanted some...

Today I launched my first ever kickstarter style crowdfunding campaign. After years and years of work and preparing for a kickstarter launch they denied us due to a change in the rules of allowing sunglasses on the website. So now we need your help to raise the money and get the word out. Here...

I've got an active campaign with 27 days left. Not getting the funding I need. I've got all the social media sites with a decent following. You might be able to help reach my goal.

My friend and I have recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for a project we've been working on. We're now trying to promote it and I was wondering if you have any tips/suggestions on how to do that "backhat style". It seems that everyting I found so far is a bit outdated, as Kickstarter has...

Hey everyone! So MS just opened up a crowdfunding type of thing for their computers for college students. I just signed up since I started going to school this Spring and would love to get a new PC that I can use on the go! I'm not new to the forums so I'm not one of those people that just...

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Hi, Tonight we are going to start our crowdfunding campaign on indiegogo. It's a unique - never been there - idea but it is also in the notorious "Make Money Online" category. So we maybe need to push it. We gave the script to about 25 people and they all said it looks good and they want to...

Hi all, I want to know if it is possible to do some crowed funding here on BHW. The funding will be for a Tier 1 management program which I have created. The software is using a plugin which costs $400,- but I don't have the money. So I was thinking if it is possible to get 20 members to invest...

My family and I's home burned down in June, we lost everything we owned. We are running an Indiegogo Campaign right now and I need some help. I want to get it featured on the website very badly. I had been putting hours of work into getting the word out before and it was going ok. But I am...