Crowdfunding : Why People Are Motivated to Post and Fund Projects on Crowdfunding Platforms

By Elizabet Gerber, Julie Hui, Pei-Yi Kuo. 2011

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Three is a crowd? Exploring the potential of crowdfunding for renewable energy in the Netherlands (2016, background): “, 2013), building legitimacy and exploring new communication channels with clients (Lehner, 2013), community building (Gerber et al., 2009), experimenting with novel ownership structures model (Harrison, 2013), identifying potential demand for a proposed product and creating public interest in new p”
It's never too late: Funding dynamics and self pledges in reward-based crowdfunding (2018, background): “Gleasure and Feller [2016c], Mollick [2016] and Giudici et al. [2018] report case studies that document the relevance of community feedback.”
Does the Possibility to Make Equity Investments in Crowdfunding Projects Crowd Out Reward–Based Investments? (2015, background): “Furthermore, given that we based our motivation types on the currently available inductive research on crowdfund investors on Kickstarter (see Gerber et al., 2012), we did not include other possibly important and relevant factors, such as being motivated simply because the activity is fun or…”
Social identity and signalling success factors in online crowdfunding (2016, background): “Gerber, Hui, and Kuo (2012) argue that understanding identity is important for the ongoing engagement with the crowds.”
Crowdfunding (2013, background): “Unlike traditional fundraising methods, such as applying for funds from banks or foundations, crowdfunding allows creators, people who request resources, to appeal for funds directly from supporters, people who give resources, through online platforms [Gerber et al. 2012].”
Crowdfunding for renewable and sustainable energy projects: An exploratory case study approach (2016, background): “To summarize, crowdfunders participate in donation-based or reward-based crowdfunding out of altruistic or normative motives, arising from their sense of belonging to a community [26] or the outcomes of the project [9].”
The language that gets people to give: phrases that predict success on kickstarter (2014, background): “, IndiGoGo, RocketHub) allow the project creators to mention their monetary goals, time line by which they plan to achieve their goal, category of the project, etc [17].”
The role of venture capital in the emerging entrepreneurial finance ecosystem: future threats and opportunities (2019, background): “…the need to meet their specific funding needs is the desire to replicate the successful experiences of earlier campaigns and the opportunity to use the Internet to test the market for a future product or to easily and quickly reach potential customers (Gerber, Hui, and Kuo 2012; Mollick 2013).”