Tag: crowdfunding
How One Man Crowd-Funded Graduate School
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Alvaro Salas crowd-funded his way to a full-ride scholarship to Cornell University’s Masters in Public Administration program. To do that, he raised support from 657 people using a sophisticated email, Internet and event campaign in his home country of Costa Rica.
GoEnnounce Is A New Crowdfunding Platform For Students
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Thanks to GoEnnounce, a new crowdfunding platform, students have a way to cut down on costs.
New Crowdfunding Site Lets You Choose Which Authors Get Published
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Drawing on the success of crowdsourcing tools like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, U.K.-based Unbound is a new way for you to play a critical role in the publishing of books. It's a familiar layout on the site and shows how far along each book / project is in terms of fundraising.
Help Crowdfund the Thesaurus of the Future
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A new visual thesaurus app for the Apple iPad promises to inspire students to discover and explore words, in an inexpensive or free app. In a twist, the app developers have turned to crowd-funding site KickStarter to raise funds to build the app, and then release it for schools, parents, or anyone else to download for free or 99 cents.
