Crowd Supply is a crowdfunding platform based in Portland, Oregon.[ 5] [ 6] [ 3] The platform has claimed "over twice the success rate of Kickstarter and Indiegogo ",[ 7] and partners with creators who use it, providing mentorship resembling a business incubator .[ 8] [ 9] [ 10]
Some see Crowd Supply's close management of projects as the solution to the fulfillment failure rate of other crowdfunding platforms.[ 11] The site also serves as an online store for the inventories of successful campaigns.[ 12]
Notable projects from the platform include Andrew Huang 's Novena , an open-source laptop.[ 13]
Endorsement by Free Software Foundation
In 2015, Crowd Supply became compliant with the Free Software Foundation 's Free JavaScript campaign and was endorsed as the FSF's preferred crowdfunding platform.[ 14] [ 3]
See also
References
^ a b c "Crowd Supply, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek" .
^ "Crowd Supply: A soup to nuts Kickstarter challenger offering consulting, fulfillment, and ecommerce" . 20 March 2013.
^ a b c Byfield, Bruce. "Crowd Supply Boosts Open Hardware » Linux Magazine" .
^ "Mouser acquires Crowd Supply" . 3 October 2018.
^ Markowitz, Eric (2013-03-20). "New Crowdfunding Site Aims to Understand Manufacturing" . Inc. Retrieved 2016-08-01 .
^ Dishman, Lydia. "Inside Crowd Supply: How the Kickstarter Challenger Plans to One Up the Crowdfunding Competition" . Forbes . Retrieved 2016-10-12 .
^ "Launch | Crowd Supply" . www.crowdsupply.com . Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-08-02 .
^ Lehman, Don. "What You Need to Know about Crowd Supply, the New Crowdfunding Platform for Product Designers" . Core77 . Retrieved 2016-08-01 .
^ "Crowd Supply nudges up against the $1M funding round mark - Portland Business Journal" . Portland Business Journal . Retrieved 2016-08-01 .
^ "Crowd Supply raises $580K to develop 'highly-curated' version of Kickstarter" . GeekWire . 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2016-10-12 .
^ Swanner, Nate (2015-12-09). "Crowd Supply is succeeding where Kickstarter and Indiegogo are failing miserably" . The Next Web . Retrieved 2016-10-12 .
^ Mims, Christopher. "Why everything geeks think they know about Kickstarter is wrong" . Quartz . Retrieved 2016-10-12 .
^ "Crowd Supply nabs $585K seed - PE Hub" . PE Hub . 2015-04-10. Archived from the original on 2017-01-02. Retrieved 2016-10-12 .
^ "Founder of GNU bestows blessing upon open hardware-focused crowdfunding site" . Ars Technica . Retrieved 2018-10-28 .
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