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My first week crowdfunding - and the lessons learnt
PleaseFund.Us is not a charity. Simples.
Whilst it’s important to support our friends and family who raise money for good causes, I for one am slightly fed up with being inundated with ‘JustGiving’ requests. I’m fed up with the guilt. It’s guilt that comes with neglecting numerous donation requests, and that overrides my initial good karma from the first £50 that JustGiving debited from my account. Regardless of how good the cause, I simply can’t keep up with the amount of people asking me for money.
Beans, Recession and Crowdfunding
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.