What is Crowdfunding?
Crowdfunding, which is also known as crowd financing or crowdsourcing, is a new finance-sourcing mechanism in which members of a network (usually an Internet network) pool their money to finance social or commercial ventures initiated by other people or companies. These ventures can be anything from making a movie to helping disaster victims to creating open source software to online journalism to start-up funding to making music.
Crowdsourcing finance has been made possible because of the social structure of the …