These series of guest posts are written by the teams attending the Tetuan Valley Startup School 2012 Spring Edition. This post is from the www.mituyuu.com team, formed by Carolina Rojas, Chandini Jeswani and Ángela M. Rojas
With the current economic crisis, people losing their jobs, a growing distrust in banks and institutions, people began to search for new forms to collaborate between each other and try make business out of the conventional manners.
What began in the early XXl century with a photographer trying to sell her work, filmmakers trying to produce their movies, developers looking for a way to create new features, share and maintain their applications, ends in an important tendency; nowadays, there exists a successful way to share work among professionals (Crowdsourcing, see video here) and the platforms to find investment for any kind of project (Crowdfunding). Like governments or NGO´s find helpful donations in the crowd, people also hungry for investment or for investing in new projects finally find a cool way to do it.
Crowdfunding has also become a business; these companies work as intermediates between projects and investors charging a fee over the investment. Is some kind of primitive bank. But the impòrtant thing is that people have here a good opportunity to collaborate collectively whether as a philanthropic donation, some kind of loan with negotiable interest rates or an investment which involves a some participation in the project as a return.
85% of the crowdfunding platforms are in North America and Europe (some famous platforms are kickstarter, Indiegogo, startsomegood or crowdcube). Here in Spain you can find a total of 13 platfoms where you can share your big idea and find investment. So, startupers, when friends, family and fools investment option became extinct, you can have your chance in crowdfunding. Here are some Spanish platforms:
Partizipia, Verkami, Lanzanos, Fandyu, Volanda, Injoinet, Kreandu, Goteo, Seedquick.
