SCORE Is Crowdfunding Right for My Business?

Crowdfunding is a new source of business funding as well as a way to get pre-sales of your products. This is a new and fast growing area that allows small businesses and average investors to get involved in an area that was previously open only to very large businesses and wealthy investors. Find out how crowdfunding works and if it is right for you. We will review and compare the five forms of crowdfunding and also compare crowdfunding to traditional methods of financing. The methods discussed will include: • Donation-based Crowdfunding • Rewards-based (or Affinity) Crowdfunding • Debt Crowdfunding • Equity Crowdfunding • Revenue Sharing Crowdfunding Our presenter is Craig Linsky. Craig is a SCORE mentor and Chairman of the Client Education Committee at SCORE in Jacksonville. Craig worked in the financial services industry for nearly thirty years. For the past ten years, he has designed and taught marketing and other business topics both domestically through SCORE and internationally through the Financial Services Volunteer Corp.