Crowdfunding Platforms
topic on 4 shows · 7 statements across 6 episodes
Masters of Scale 
My First Million 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC
7 statements about Crowdfunding Platforms, every show
Wilkinson: Raising from retail investors at inflated valuations is unethical
“I have a fundamental problem with taking money from someone when I know I can't give them a return or there's like a five percent chance and positioning it as, you know, you're investing in this super solid, awesome thing.”
Kahn: Fortune 100 companies use crowdfunding platforms for secret consumer R&D
“In fact, there are Fortune 100 companies doing R&D on the crowdfunding platforms to see what consumers like.”
Andreessen: Crowdfunding platforms stemmed from Obama 2008 campaign fundraising innovations
“A lot of what is now happening with crowdfunding and Kickstarter and CrowdTilt and all these things is kind of, in a lot of ways, sort of derivations of what happened in the Obama campaign.”
Bailey: Crowdfunding Platforms Organize Existing Communities Rather Than Drive Organic Discovery
“And yet I do think that it is a little bit of a myth that like with crowdfunding, a lot of people think that if you go there you know, with, The, you know, the current platforms that are in place, that organic discovery is fairly large, and we've actually foun…”
Teten: Most of the 500+ Crowdfunding Sites Will Fail
“There are also over 500 crowdfunding sites, and most of them will fail, so we're glad we invested in one of the clear winners of that game.”
Seton-Rogers: Equity crowdfunding platforms offer startups higher valuations than VCs
“Just the way I see the pricing happen, they're getting much higher prices on these crowdfunding platforms than investors will give them, than VCs will give them.”