Are you an artist and thinking of crowdfunding your project? Do you know how to do it? Sure?
At present, crowdfunding is primarily used for creative projects. Creative minds come together and pitch their ideas to the public in hopes of funding for their artistic projects. The conflict here is in the fact that creative people do not always have the right mindset for business pitching, be it to small investors or multimillionaire angels. There are mavericks indeed – Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Jay-Z – just to name a few. Yet the hermit artists with l’art pour l’art mentality are struggling to get their projects funded. With gratitude and appreciation I take my hat off to this breed of artists, and I want to help them benefit from crowdfunding as well.
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