What is crowdfunding and how does it work?

What is crowdfunding?
What is crowdfunding?

What is crowdfunding? Like many others, crowdfunding is a funding/investment tool used by many people around the world. Nowadays, it has become very popular among startup founders. When starting a project, it is difficult to obtain external financing, and crowdfunding is a good solution to that problem. Early stages are always the most difficult ones regarding the economic situation of the business, but you can learn about how to raise funding for your startup by reading our article.

Going back to crowdfunding, it is very likely that the term sounds familiar to you, but what exactly is it about? Crowdfunding platforms allow people from all over the world to contribute their money to all those projects they have found interesting. You could say that these small investors are like micro-sponsors.

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Startup Q&A Session with Brant Cooper, author of “The Lean Entrepreneur”

Brant Cooper, the author of The New York Times Bestseller “The Lean Entrepreneur”, gave an insightful startup Q&A session at Itnig.

Brant Cooper about startups
Brant Cooper Q&A session at Itnig

Brant answers the following questions:

  • What does ‘brand’ mean for a startup?
  • How can a startup find its market segment?
  • Should a startup focus on a large market or a niche market?
  • How should a startup scale?
  • How can a startup get more users?
  • The problems of launching a product without being prepared
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RevenueCat: Building a Company in Silicon Valley with YCombinator

RevenueCat, a San Francisco-based startup, is a simple API that allows developers to analyze and manage their app subscriptions on both iOS and Android devices. They have raised more than 16 million euros, have gone through YCombinator and have been invested by people like Jason Lemkin.

RevenueCat on Itnig Podcast
Bernat Farrero (Itnig) and Jordi Romero (Factorial) interview Miguel Carranza, cofounder of RevenueCat
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