Crowdfunding Advocate Gifts

Here's where we differ ... You say "pickpocketing," I say "crowdfunding."

"HR-bill 9495. Cutting down non-profits."

"See? A huge surge in all the major crowdfunding sites right before the Big Bang!"

Cartoon about having many investors for crowd funding.

"I just need help getting started. A little seed money."

'The treasury decided to use bob geldof's speechwriter this year!'

"We probably need to rethink our revenue strategy for the practice."

"I'm sorry, but you'll have to get approval from the offices of Terminology, Evidence, Proof of Demand, Documentation, Measurement and Predictions before I can even think about signing off."

Kick me

"Waldo starts a GoFindMe."

Horace Mann

"I'm doing a Kickstopper project!" "What?" "I was going to write a book... but do we really need another book in this world? So... Kickstopper—people donate money to stop me from writing. I won't write it so I'll never ask you to read it. I'd pay money to not read your book. Thanks." "You're welcome." "I'm also starting projects to not start a band, not write poetry and not tell you about my dreams."

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, give a man a kickstarter campaign and he can write a bad fishing memoir."

'It's someone from the Society for Ethical Treatment of Principals asking for a donation.'

'I haven't been campaigning for a creche all these years for nothing - you're going!'

Now hiring: crowdfunding expert to reduce the US budget deficit.

"It's meatloaf. We didn't make our Kickstarter goal for steak."

"I'm starting a Kickstarter campaign to fund a rival to Kickstarter."

"Flockfunding"? Whatever happened to building your own @#^* nest?

"Sure, revenues are up 25% since we switched from blackmailing the West, to crowdfunding, but where's the pizazz?"

Office of Management & Budget. Now hiring: crowdfunding expert to reduce the U.S. budget deficit.

"If money gets too expensive to borrow, our fall-back is this company GoFundMe page."

"Crowd-funding's fantastic but the crowd-thanking is a real drag."

Do not feed the bears. But you can contribute to our Kickstarter fund.

"Defunding increases aggression."

"It's not just the church that needs evangelists. So does big oil."

If Isaac Newton had lived in present-day America.

"Welcome to Kickstarter."

Mobsourcing

Go-Fund-Me for Start-Up into Alcohol Research

The Potato Salad Society

"It takes money to make money. So my advice is: go on kickstarter first, then come back to me."

"Master, what is the best thing I can do for the poor?"

"Hey, look at this. After only a month, the idea that we spend the last two years developing has attracted $10 on Kickstarter."

I started a Gofundme page to finance my writing of the great American novel. In the comments section everybody told me to go fund myself. Actually, they didn't use the word fund.