Indiegogo and kickstarter: crowd funding innovative technology and ideas for libraries

Indiegogo and Kickstarter are the stars of crowd-funding platforms for products with innovative technologies that are looking for funding to move to production. Providing funding for these products carries with it some risk that the product may never come to market. Each product has a target that the entrepreneurs need to reach to move to production but in some cases, if that earmark is not reached, funders may lose their money (I know from firsthand experience). But, there is an advantage in that early (and in many cases later) funders are given incentives of much lower prices than what the...