If you spent more than 5 minutes on Crowdsourcing.org in 2012, you probably already know what a big year it was for crowdfunding, both worldwide and here in the United States.
Earlier this month we took a look at the top 5 highest-grossing crowdfunding campaigns of 2012, highlighting the most successful multi-million dollar projects that raised amounts that would have seemed like pure science fiction at the end of 2011.
But mountains of dollars don't paint the full picture of what crowdfunding is today. Not every project needs more than a million -- or even 5,000 -- dollars to be a success. The crowdfunding platforms not only brought in bucks in 2012, they were also platforms for innovation in fields as diverse as marketing, film distribution and citizen science.
To read the original article: The 5 Most Unique Crowdfunding Campaigns of 2012
