How Micro can Micro-investing be?

The way people put up their campaigns on the various crowdfunding sites is maturing all the time.

The latest trends, for example, are a) for people to include "stretch goals" - what they'll do if backer pledge more than they originally ask for, and b) to include descriptions of the various rewards in the body of the text of the campaign, even though the "rewards" section is fully visible. But they can go into more detail and generate more excitement this way.

If you look at a crowdfunding campaign - I'm talking only of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo now, but I am confident that any other crowdfunding campaign will have the same capability - it doesn't matter what their minimum pledge amount is ($5, $10, $100) you can always bid a small amount - $1.

For Kickstarter, in the green button where you pledge, it will say, "Minimum pledge $1", and on IndieGoGo you can input the amount you want to pledge, starting at $1.

So if you are a micro-investor, and I hope through FAEO that we will introduce hundreds of thousands of people to the micro-investment ranks, you don't need to pledge $5 or $10 or more - though obviously that would be nice.

You can pledge a single dollar.

What good is a single dollar? Well, if a thousand people who just want to "help out" a project pledged a single dollar, that's $1,000 right there.

The goal of FAEO is to let that thousand people know of a really great - or at least interesting - campaign that they can contribute a tiny sum to, and watch it all add up and make an entrepreneur's ambition come true... and the backer will hear the bell as he or she gets his angel's wings. (Okay, that's an analogy from It's A Wonderful Life, and I have to work on it so it sounds a bit more clever, but you get the idea.)

Help Restore a Vintage Art Trailer for At Risk Youth

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/151482183/on-the-move-art-studio-help-us-restore-a-vintage-t?ref=hero_thanks

is the URL ... and this is another fun project. They are two-thirds of the way to their goal, they only need another $1,500. Micro-investors, now's the time to give them an early Christmas present - if you are an art lover or want to help share the ability to create art with others.

A few paragraphs from their campaign:

We believe in the power of visual arts to empower and enrich the lives of at risk youth. That is why we have purchased a 1969 Streamline trailer to bring art classes to impoverished neighborhoods in our community.

It is our goal to transform this stylin' Streamline into a mobile art studio, offering diverse classes for children to experience the gratification of creating beautiful drawings, paintings, jewelry and more.

Studies support the numerous benefits of art education for children, including a closing of the gap between low and high-income students' academic achievement.

With your support, we hope to build a fun atmosphere to foster creative achievements for at risk youth to experience the many benefits of art!

Only 2 days left to back this fun project: Always Get on the Boat

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/138285656/constance-hockaday-presents-always-get-on-the-boat?ref=thanks

The first few paragraphs of the campaign.

ALWAYS GET ON THE BOAT is a performative and immersive art project on a 175 foot retired coast guard vessel.

What does it mean to always get on the boat?

There is a dwindling wilderness that runs parallel to our modern lives. It’s easy to forget it’s there or that we have access to it.

Always get on the boat is something that my friends and I say to each other when one of us is on shore and the rest of us are on the boat about to take off. The typical "are you coming?" and pleading "Come on, get on" happens and then inevitably the one on shore starts asking:

Should I go?

Do I have everything I need?

Will we make it back in time for BLANK?

Will we survive this?

The answers to these questions are impossible to know. And so, to expedite this process we made a rule.

It sounds like fun and if I lived in New York, I'd go.

If you're in to theatre, alternative theatre, performance art, creative space making, etc. check this out and support them!

Kickstarter: Sasha Daniel Debut Album (Music)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/487943547/sasha-daniel-debut-album is the URL for Sasha Daniel, who is attempting to fund her debut album.

She's got plenty of videos on YouTube for you to check out.

Here's her description of her album from her Kickstarter campaign:

The Album All the songs on this upcoming album talk about heartfelt moments and realizations that I’ve experienced in the past few years. In order to capture those as truthfully as possible it’s important to record and share them now, while they are vivid in my mind’s eye.

On December 14th Dov Igel, Max Oleartchik, Mathias Kunzli and myself are going into a studio to spend three full days recording eight songs. A few days later I will fly to Los Angeles for a week to work 10 hour days with my childhood friend, Anna "Annalog" Feller, an incredibly talented musician and producer. Together we will record vocals, keyboards (and other cool sounds) which will bring the album to completion. In order to do all the above we need to raise $12,000. This money will go toward:

·Rehearsals
·Musicians
·Studio time
·Mixing and mastering
·Art work
·CD printing

If we raise money BEYOND our goal we'll be able to pay for PR services, distribute the music to wider audience, create a new music video and finally, start funding our next tour!