1. Traditional Sources of Finance
AKA where does a firm traditionally get money from to get started/(or even just to carry on)?
It sells shares
It sells any Assets
It gets a Bank Loan
It approaches a Venture Capitalist

2. Alternative Sources of Finance
What exactly is Crowdfunding?
Problems with Crowdfunding

3. Kickstarter are the main ‘crowd-funding platform’
Kickstarter.com are one of the major crowd funding organisations

4. Crowdfunding

5. AS Business Studies Summer Task 2017 Crowdfunding
Your Task:
Click on all the links and read about exactly what crowdfunding is
Choose 3 of those ‘Crowdfunding’ case studies and write a half page summary on who/what/why these firms have decided to crowdfund.
Using the internet, find another crowdfunding story of your own and write a half page summary of it.
Evaluate (i.e. discuss the good and the bad) of crowdfunding as a source of finance, i.e., what are the advantages and disadvantages to a firm who choose crowdfunding as their source of finance (at least 1 page of writing)