Crowd sourcing of funding and -investment market

                Crowdsourcing is a form of practice that connects millions of people for the same purpose just like increase efficiency, problem-solving and often innovation. Crowdsourcing is going to utilize the web 2.0, social media and the latest technologies of its effective working. In different industries, crowdsourcing is going to used and also reached a higher level. It is also helpful for smooth connectivity that connects every person to share the funds, expertise, time and ideas for any specific reason. Crowdsourcing is belonging to mobilization to some extent. This act provides many opportunities to an organization that handles in many different matters like help in reducing cost, optimization the task, opportunities for co-creation, deeper consumer engagement and new and innovative ideas and their solutions. So it can be said that the crowd is a platform that connects millions of people on the internet and they can easily share their thoughts and ideas and information related to all type of projects. It also provides localized information and also solves tricky problems that enhance the knowledge and wisdom of the people. So it can also state that crowd using by the organization make very closely with their stakeholders and they create and find new ways and values of performing the groundwork. In an increasingly connected world, the future belongs to human-based, its ability to create new terms and also participate with its skills in all type of projects. (crowdsourcingweek.com, 2019)

                For an organization to reinvent and rethink the conventional processes offer new opportunities and organization working at board level that the business models are open innovation, collaboration, co-creation and crowd funding that are now going to use to determine new ways and methods. The crowdsourcing is going to change all previous methods of the market, making, and research, hiring and working in the organization. As it interacts with different businesses and also touches to all social media links and websites. It also offers new opportunities to the people to increase their voice and also utilize the empower of citizens. Crowdsourcing also accelerates innovation and focus on problem-solving techniques in science and health are departments. It also challenges the conventional banking and investing system and revolutionizes the new system. So crowdsourcing is very helpful in different fields like reinvesting financial models, reinvest work model, reinvest business model, increase efficiency, engage consumer and citizens, share ideas, save cost, co-create and accelerate innovation among many organization and industries and utilize the efforts and ideas of new and fresh mind that can think more innovatively and also bring such attractive ideas that enhance the credibility of the business and that will attract more customers and enhance the future scope because the market requirement is going to change with the passage of time and people want to new and innovative products according to their needs and requirement so the crowd souring is very helpful in this regard and open new ways to get new ideas and expertise and get more information among people. (study.com, 2019)

Funding and investment markets:

                Funding means that utilize the money at some resource to generate some better results. Investment id also using the same term as an investment means to spend your money at some specific place that generates some product and at the end give some benefit to the investor. So the investment markets are also very common in the business field and many investors are willing and still investing their money in such markets because they want to utilize their money and they invest their money in a specified time period and then earn profit against their investment. If the investor didn’t want to get the advice of any professional related to their investment then there are also many platforms that give many options to the investor and they can hold share, any other asset of funds at the same place. The platform is the place of service used by a consumer of financial advisors to administer and view their investment portfolio and all details related to their investment. The platform also provides custody for customer assets related to arrange and aggregate for the sale and purchase of an investment. There are many investors that prepare their investment portfolio in such a way that they presenting the mix of risk through their portfolio and also use the asset classes list to get detail information. (CHEN, 2019)

             It is better for an investor to start with simple investment at one place and after some time then invests in multiple places and generates its investment portfolio. Before selecting the real estate, and stocks it is better to select the mutual funds or ETF exchange-traded funds because in start investor didn’t know what the major and minor issue related to investment are. People are very busy that they cannot easily determine their portfolio at regular intervals so they utilize the index fund to determine the situation of the market and also consider their own investment in what direct going to move. There are multiple types of investment and funds that an investor is going to present and utilize any type of its investment opportunities such as cash, bonds, stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and many different investments like commodities, hedge funds, and private equity funds and real estate. So its depend on the investor that at what method he is going to utilize to invest its investment and get benefit from that source because every type of investment has some benefits and also have some drawbacks. So investors take its decision after complete investigation and satisfaction. Many types of markets are there that are utilizing the investment of different investors and give them enough return against their investment. These different type of investment is very beneficial for the business and also for different organization and also promote the utilization of money among investors because they money can give many benefits if it utilizes incorrect direction and also promote the economy at the right direction with the help of investors. (Murray-West, 2015)

A platform for the crowing sourcing:

                Crowdsourcing funding organizations are very helpful to provide funds in all type of industries. There are many types of crowdsourcing organization who are willing to invest in the business and also help different projects in their making and also for completion. Some examples of the crowdsourcing are;

Crowdfund: crowdful platform is some type guideline or web book and eBook that communicate with different organizations and enterprises that want to get benefit from the crowd power and also move their business at the upward direction with the support and funding of crowd and its members. This platform is very much beneficial for the small business and startups to increase at the level of bigger companies. (indiegogo.com, 2019)

            Kickstarter: this platform is very helpful for scientific projects and businesses. They provide support, innovative ideas and also proper finance for all those who bring new and technological advancement projects and they have a lack of finance in their project making. So this platform provides them proper support and financial help to manage their projects and also get maximum benefits. (kickstarter.com, 2019)

Herod: this crowdsourcing platform is very helpful for all those who want to meet challenges and this provide many solutions for all those problems that users going to face related to their work. And also provide innovative thinking related to their tasks. This platform offer proposals and individuals of satisfactory number and diversity that can manage all type of challenges. (herox.com, 2019)

        Indigo: for big business, this platform also provides a wide range of funds and with this, they offer consumer based ideas that bring innovation and new technologies in the business. This platform allows customers to spend their money ion new product before other competitors get involve in the market for the new product and promote the working of the businesses. (Mearian, 2016)

Crowdfunding: crowdfunding is a platform that raises the funds for the organization and also for individual projects through a donation that collected with the help of other businesses, strangers, friends and family, and many others. With the increasing awareness through social media, people can get more people who are actual needer for the donations. (crowdfunding.com, 2019)

         Groundsmen: this platform allows the users to get the funds for their business or projects. Whatever your goal is the gofundme platform provides huge donation whenever you required. They are only offered to get funds and accomplish their objective.

            Just-giving: this platform provides funds for many purposes more than business or personal projects that include taking action in case of emergency, celebrating any occasion, help people in need and also taking part in the charity events for good purposes. (.justgiving.com, 2019)

Face book: this platform connects millions of people and through this platform, they can help others through funding and also provide innovative and creative ideas belong to any field of study and business.

        Rocket hub: this platform provides funds for the field of art, business, science, and social purposes. When the project achieved successfully then this will also receive a reward from the platform. (Hines, 2014)

        Fundraiser: fundraiser is a platform that can run the fundraising campaign successfully for any purposes. They offer support and help who cannot bear high fees and also need proper help. (fundrazr.com, 2019)

 In Germany, there are three most famous crowding sourcing platforms that mostly used by the users are; Export, Zinsland, and bergfurst.

Exporo: this crowdsourcing platform handles the project more than 52 and also capture the market share of 40%. This platform increases its revenue with the help of e- ventures, BPO capital, sunstone and holtzbrinch ventures.

Zinsland:  this platform starts its working from 2014. And almost 25 projects run successfully and financed them. It uses such an effective plan and development that increase their employment rate every year.

Bergfurst: this platform is earlier started as comper to others and work as equity crowding platform and then it completely belongs to real estate projects and also provide finance t real estate projects.                       

The platform of the funds and investment of Crowd-sourcing

            There are many technologies that are going to use for the purpose of investment ad provide better facilities to invest in the platform that gives guarantee o its user's ad also provide better facilities related to investment opportunities. By using the internet, we can utilize multiple ways to invest and also get financial practice and trusting the things that handle on the internet at large scale. Before selecting the best platform all the factors related to investment must be considered with attentively because it is not easy to invest in one place and after that invest at some other place. So there is multiple platforms for the investment that includes Predictlt, Fanduel sportsbook, coinbase, fringe investment platform, acorns, stash, Robinhood, TD Ameritrade, ally invest,E-trade, and Fidelity Investments. These platforms are very helpful in investing with multiple benefits and also offer many benefits to the investors. Every platform has unique attributes and also handle all the issues of the investor in a very effective manner so that investor feel very comfortable and also obtain many benefits by investing in these platforms and also consider its investment portfolio in a very better way. (Boricha, 2019)

Conclusion on Crowd-sourcing,-funding and -investment market

        In the end, we can conclude our discussion in such a way that the crowdsourcing and funding and investment markets are the laces or platform that is making or developed for the benefit for the users. Crowdsourcing provides a platform to keep in touch or stay connected millions of people at the same time and at the same place and get better ideas and advice related to their work and about their projects and also resent new and innovative ideas that support the newcomers and also provide them suggestion related to professionals and experts. Because there are many issues arises when a person going to start its work and having no idea related to its after-effects so such platforms are very helping and supportive for such type of people. Investment and funding platforms are very helpful to provide better opportunities to invest their money and also help them to promote the investment opportunities in better way and get the better results because investment is very important for every organization or business and every person who have sufficient money want to utilize its money in a better way and also want to get more benefit by utilizing it.

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