Crowd Funding

From Anthony

• Successful example with Kickstarter - http://craigmod.com/journal/kickstartup/

from Ira Mollay at http://iramollay.net

http://www.wikando.com/

http://www.thepoint.com

http://www.bettertheworld.com

http://www.betterplace.org/

http://www.greedyorneedy.com/

http://www.wishdom.com (those are actually more about getting wishes fulfilled ...)

http://www.chipin.com/

http://www.createafund.com/

http://firstgiving.com/

http://www.fundable.com/

http://laraghfinance.com/

http://www.pledgebank.com/

From Ben Lipkowitz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system

rational street performer protocol http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/rspp

open source hardware bank - unfortunately they only seem to be promoting their own projects. http://www.oshwbank.org/