Crowdfunding Skeptic Gifts

The Potato Salad Society

"I agree, the place was a tear-down, but I just remembered we were only renting it."

Bernard Madhoff $50-billion Ponzi financial scheme.

"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."

'So, a bailout is like a Ponzi scheme for automakers?'

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

Kick me

"Waldo starts a GoFindMe."

'Stocks dropped today, proving once again that life sucks.'

Guide to Working Class Investing

"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."

Be thankful we didn't invest social security funds in the stock market.

"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."

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

'Good Lord, what is it this week? New equipment for your kid's soccer team?'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'I need a small, temporary tax hike - I found a great investment opportunity in Nigeria.'

"You know it almost BEGGARS belief that so many people are unwilling to pay for professional pension advice."

"I invested $1000 in Nortel and now my shares are worth 18 cents."

'Rumors...'

Home improvements do not always represent a sound investment.

Mobsourcing

'Well, I'm AGAINST adding a course in business methods to the curriculum....

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

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

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

"Mr. Jones, I'm taking you out of stocks and into kickstarter."