{"id":651486,"date":"2013-04-09T19:05:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T23:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=425578"},"modified":"2013-04-09T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T23:05:11","slug":"the-crowdfunding-market-exploded-to-2-7-billion-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/651486","title":{"rendered":"The crowdfunding market exploded to $2.7 billion in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/09\/crowdfunding-money-raised-2-66-billion-425578\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/cycling4.png?w=650&amp;h=700&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Crowdfunding Money Raised\" title=\"Pebble\" \/><\/a><\/center>Crowdfunding websites such as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/kickstarter\">Kickstarter<\/a> and Indiegogo experienced tremendous growth in 2012 and became a significant source of financing for independent businesses, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/04\/08\/us-crowdfunding-data-idUSBRE9370QY20130408\"><em>Reuters<\/em> reported<\/a>. Consumers eagerly backed projects and companies for a total amount of $2.66 billion last year, an increase of 81% from $1.47 billion in 2011. The bulk of money raised came from North American users who invested $1.6 billion in various projects, an increase of 105% from 2011. One of the most popular crowdfunding projects of all time was the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/pebble\">Pebble<\/a> smartwatch, which <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/05\/10\/pebble-smartwatch-kickstarter-sold-out\/\">raised more than $10 million from 66,434 backers who bought 85,000 watches<\/a>. Research firm Massolution believes that crowdfunding will continue to increase in 2013 and could grow as high as $5.1 billion.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/7OgWh2ZV6Mc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo experienced tremendous growth in 2012 and became a significant source of financing for independent businesses, Reuters reported. Consumers eagerly backed projects and companies for a total amount of $2.66 billion last year, an increase of 81% from $1.47 billion in 2011. The bulk of money raised came from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}