One of my favorite things about coaching is that I get to hear a lot of people’s great ideas for businesses and services they want to create. I tell them there is a market for everything and to follow their heart. Crowd funding is a great way to make these dreams come true.
Scientists join world of crowd funding.
NEW YORK (AP) — Duke University professor Kathleen Pryer has received her share of grant money. But for her newest project, she’s getting help from a retired nurse in Canada and a 17-year-old in Arkansas.
It’s her first foray into the modern-day world of crowdfunding, the practice of using the Internet to raise relatively small amounts of money from a lot of people to finance a project. It’s quite a departure from the normal sources of funding for scientific research, chiefly industry, government and philanthropies. Read More
