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2019 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
4. The Many Faces of Crowdfunding: A Brief Classification of the Systems and a Snapshot of Kickstarter
Authors : Marco Campennì, Marco Benedetti, Federico Cecconi
Published in: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Economic Modeling
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
In this chapter, we present the complex phenomenon of crowdfunding and its origin, briefly providing some useful definitions and concepts. We then present two different types of analysis: (i) a simple descriptive statistics showing interesting results about the most successful categories of Kickstarter campaigns; (ii) the potentials of adopting a time-series analysis approach to better understand trends in Kickstarter and to perform a simple forecast of future trends of successful campaigns.