crow funding assignment
Crowd Funding Assignment and Rubric.
The purpose of this assignment is to have you become familiar with the concept of crowdfunding. As such you should do the following:
1. Google crowd funding, visit crowd funding web sites, and learn about crowd funding. One of your later assignments in this class is to create your own crowd funding video – so find out what this is and what it will take.
4. Identity three crowd funding projects that you like, which are of high quality (ie, solve an important problem or leverage a significant trend) and to which you would contribute or lend. Try to find projects that are business /entrepreneurship focused (rather than arts / crafts etc).
Describe each project (venture, company, start up), and what you liked about their crowd funding campaign. What exactly was compelling about their story and the way that they told the story? Watch for and include things like photos, videos, language etc. Complete the following information for each project:
For each project, include:
Project Name:
Description:
Link:
Platform Name: (eg: Kickstarter)
What you liked about the project / the problem that the project solves / the trend that it levrages:
Point 1
Point 2
Point 3
Photos: Number, content, strengths, weaknesses
Videos: length, content, strengths, weaknesses
Prototype: availability, dates,
Other: project plan, launch time lines etc.
Call to Action: What is the amount that they are asking for? Would you donate? Why or why not?