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Crowdfunding can be defined as a practice of funding startups or small firms or a project by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people utilizing online social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other specialized blogs. It is an organized collective effort of many non-professional people who are embedded in trust to finance a venture via the internet. It is a market-based approach to finance entrepreneurial firms that lack capital for growth and development.
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Adhikary, B.K., Kutsuna, K., Hoda, T. (2018). Crowdfunding—A Conceptual Talk. In: Crowdfunding. SpringerBriefs in Economics(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1522-0_1
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