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Crowd Supply is a
crowdfunding platform based in Portland, Oregon.
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[3] The platform has claimed "over twice the success rate of
Kickstarter and
Indiegogo ",
[7] and partners with creators who use it, providing mentorship resembling a
business incubator .
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Some see Crowd Supply's close management of projects as the solution to the fulfillment failure rate of other crowdfunding platforms.
[11] The site also serves as an online store for the inventories of successful campaigns.
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Notable projects from the platform include
Andrew Huang 's
Novena , an open-source laptop.
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Endorsement by Free Software Foundation
In 2015, Crowd Supply became compliant with the
Free Software Foundation 's Free
JavaScript campaign and was endorsed as the FSF's preferred crowdfunding platform.
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See also
References
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"Crowd Supply, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek" .
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"Crowd Supply: A soup to nuts Kickstarter challenger offering consulting, fulfillment, and ecommerce" . 20 March 2013.
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c Byfield, Bruce.
"Crowd Supply Boosts Open Hardware » Linux Magazine" .
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"Mouser acquires Crowd Supply" . 3 October 2018.
^ Markowitz, Eric (2013-03-20).
"New Crowdfunding Site Aims to Understand Manufacturing" .
Inc. Retrieved 2016-08-01 .
^ Dishman, Lydia.
"Inside Crowd Supply: How the Kickstarter Challenger Plans to One Up the Crowdfunding Competition" . Forbes . Retrieved 2016-10-12 .
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"Launch | Crowd Supply" . www.crowdsupply.com . Archived from
the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-08-02 .
^ Lehman, Don.
"What You Need to Know about Crowd Supply, the New Crowdfunding Platform for Product Designers" .
Core77 . Retrieved 2016-08-01 .
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"Crowd Supply nudges up against the $1M funding round mark - Portland Business Journal" . Portland Business Journal . Retrieved 2016-08-01 .
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"Crowd Supply raises $580K to develop 'highly-curated' version of Kickstarter" . GeekWire . 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2016-10-12 .
^ Swanner, Nate (2015-12-09).
"Crowd Supply is succeeding where Kickstarter and Indiegogo are failing miserably" . The Next Web . Retrieved 2016-10-12 .
^ Mims, Christopher.
"Why everything geeks think they know about Kickstarter is wrong" . Quartz . Retrieved 2016-10-12 .
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"Crowd Supply nabs $585K seed - PE Hub" . PE Hub . 2015-04-10. Archived from
the original on 2017-01-02. Retrieved 2016-10-12 .
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"Founder of GNU bestows blessing upon open hardware-focused crowdfunding site" . Ars Technica . Retrieved 2018-10-28 .
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