Crowdfunding’s Future: Local Online Ecosystems

The Happy CrowdThere’s an essential question I’ve been thinking about recently that I believe underlies one of the most powerful and transformative possibilities of crowdfunding…

The question is… how important is “local” to the crowdfunding movement?

I wanted to share my vision for local communities and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the U.S., and globally, and how I see they will be empowered and funded collaboratively.

For starters, I recently wrote about the power of community-based investing.

In some ways, the Internet has made “place” irrelevant. We live and work in a global marketplace — we can connect, interact and collaborate with virtually anyone, anywhere. However, as we all know, just because we connect with a person or company online, it doesn’t mean we have an actual relationship.

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