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First Week At PleaseFund.Us!

Fri, 02-09-2011, 10:48am

Talking to people about crowdfunding since I have been working for PleaseFund.Us and explaining how it works I always get the same question fired back at me; why would people be interested in backing a cause and getting nothing back in return, particularly if they do not know the person it is helping, and it isn’t for charity?

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Beans, Recession and Crowdfunding

Thu, 01-09-2011, 11:04am

Tired with the City life, constantly surrounded by talk of the "double-dip recession", broke unable even to buy a card for their mother's birthday, and with daily intakes of cheese-on-toast at new all time highs, James Bailey and Tarkan Ahmet decided that the only thing to do, was to 'go it alone'. Armed with a box of highlighters and a MacBook, they went about turning their idea of crowdfunding into reality....6 months on,  223 tins of baked beans down and www.PleaseFund.Us is live.

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A Crowdfunding Baking Class

Mon, 18-07-2011, 9:48am

How To Get Your Slice Of The Cake.

We have taken crowdfunding and rather crassly turned it into a baking session to give you an idea on how to come up with a brilliant campaign to get your project fully funded. If you can’t understand the analogy, don’t worry, there is a pretty good chance that it just doesn’t work!

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