NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Crowdfunding has become much more prominent after Facebook (FB_) recently bought crowd-funded virtual-reality headset maker Oculus for $2.1 billion. In September of 2012, Oculus was financed by nearly 10,000 individuals for over $2 million through KickStarter, a crowdfunding platform.
The crowdfunding principle -- when individual investors finance a project over the Internet or at live events -- can result in more profitable investing in stocks, too. Let's look at Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett -- two of the best investors in history -- Andy Frankenberger, winner of the World Series of Poker, and Dom Einhorn, founder of crowdfunding site Born2Invest, as they talk about investing principles relevant to the new crowdfunding movement.
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