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The most crucial fact about all of these sites is that they are essentially investment workflow platforms, NOT investment promotion services.

A company needs to do their own promotion among investors to raise money, there aren't waves of investors at these sites eager for new opportunities.

This is actually how Kickstarter works, and the reason that effective promoters are the ones who succeed at raising money, rather than the cleverest inventors.

> FundersClub, Wefunder, and other sites like SeedInvest, CircleUp, and EquityNet offer crowdfunded investments on their sites that are mechanically similar to KickStarter.




For the companies we have raised $1 million for, 60% to 70% come from their own users or customers. The rest from the Wefunder community.

Generally, it's a pretty good investment signal when you personally love using a product. So lots of customers invest for most high-quality companies.




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