There are lots of kinds of crowdfunding–starting with asking for donations to selling stock in your company. Clearly asking for donations is going to result in a lot less money than offering a discount for pre-ordering a product or selling shares of stock....
by Gary Simon — It is tough to find capital to build a business around a new piece of hardware. VC’s have lost interest. Why? Here are some conclusions from some recent studies: Products that involve new engineering and new hardware invariably take...