E23 - Crowdfunding with Chris Blauvelt from LaunchGood.com

This episode covers:

 

• Picking a career path 
• The importance of low-risk experiments like internships 
• How LaunchGood started, and what all this "crowd-funding" business really is 
• Challenges with crowd-funding specific to the Muslim community 
• How crowd funding is changing as it grows, and a critical look at personal/individual crowd-funding campaigns 
• LaunchGood's filtering process for what they allow on their site, and promoting responsible crowd-funding. 
• Providing a means of giving sadaqah in a directly impactful way 
• Misconceptions about crowd-funding 
• Should you donate to relief projects through crowd-funding instead of established charities? 
• Should you use crowd-funding to get out of personal debts? 
• Why LaunchGood turned down a Masjid's crowd-funding campaign, and how they ended up raising the money anyways 
• People raising funds for Islamic education, challenges dealing with your local community, and accountability 
• Chris' favorite LaunchGood project 
• Creating win-win crowd-funding campaigns 

 

Links: 

• Website: http://launchgood.com
• Launchgood on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/launchgood
• Launchgood on Twitter: https://twitter.com/launchgood

 

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