E23 - Crowdfunding with Chris Blauvelt from LaunchGood.com - a podcast by Debt Free Muslims
from 2015-03-23T14:14:57
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This episode covers:
- Picking a career path
- The importance of low-risk experiments like internships
- How LaunchGood started, and what all this "crowd-funding" business really is
- Challenges with crowd-funding specific to the Muslim community
- How crowd funding is changing as it grows, and a critical look at personal/individual crowd-funding campaigns
- LaunchGood's filtering process for what they allow on their site, and promoting responsible crowd-funding.
- Providing a means of giving sadaqah in a directly impactful way
- Misconceptions about crowd-funding
- Should you donate to relief projects through crowd-funding instead of established charities?
- Should you use crowd-funding to get out of personal debts?
- Why LaunchGood turned down a Masjid's crowd-funding campaign, and how they ended up raising the money anyways
- People raising funds for Islamic education, challenges dealing with your local community, and accountability
- Chris' favorite LaunchGood project
- Creating win-win crowd-funding campaigns
Links:
- Website: http://launchgood.com
- Launchgood on Facebook: https://www.
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