Becoming your own boss can be an exciting but equally terrifying prospect. For students looking to start their own business during, or straight from, university – it is often a lack funding puts them off.
In the last few years as ‘crowdfunding’ has been gaining ever more momentum and producing viable and innovative opportunities to raise money, the possibilities for students and young people with a great idea and a passion to make it happen have increased.
Crowdfunding is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet”.
The concept is hardly new; in fact crowdfunding in one form or another has been around forever. However, with the power of the Internet, the potential that crowdfunding has for startups has completely transformed the business world.
Here at From Student to Startup, we have put together a list of some great crowdfunding platforms for you to check out. Please do let us know if there are any not in there that you want included, especially any specialist or niche platforms that we may have missed out.
In the last few years as ‘crowdfunding’ has been gaining ever more momentum and producing viable and innovative opportunities to raise money, the possibilities for students and young people with a great idea and a passion to make it happen have increased.
Crowdfunding is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet”.
The concept is hardly new; in fact crowdfunding in one form or another has been around forever. However, with the power of the Internet, the potential that crowdfunding has for startups has completely transformed the business world.
Here at From Student to Startup, we have put together a list of some great crowdfunding platforms for you to check out. Please do let us know if there are any not in there that you want included, especially any specialist or niche platforms that we may have missed out.