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Crowdfunding Sites Offer 5 Hidden Benefits

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To start, Crowdfunding is the process of getting a group of regular individuals (versus banks, venture capitalists or angel investors) to collectively fund your venture. Blowfly Beer, through emails and internet word of mouth, got 40,000 people to invest in their company. This word of mouth marketing can be worth millions of dollars.

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Startup Tools

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Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.