For the past week, Brian Meece was lecturing at college campuses across the country about the power of crowdfunding. He also took some time to give Handshake360° his thoughts on the importance of crowdfunding within higher education.
Handshake360°: If you look at the crowdfunding portals today, you have the “catch-all platforms” and the “niche-platforms” that focus on a specific target audience. Are you more of a niche player or more of a catch-all platform?
BM: We are a very broad and open crowdfunding community. Most fall under one of four categories: arts, science/academic, entrepreneurship/small business, and social good. Virtually every funding campaign falls into one of those four buckets. The DNA of the company is then built around three things: liberating ideas, how crowdfunding builds community, and teaching the world how to use crowdfunding. So we present opportunities to everyone.
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