FunderThunder

FunderThunder is taking the power of the Internet to reach large numbers of people through social media like tools and using that power to help fund various projects and ventures which otherwise might never happen.

This company was founded by a group of like minded entrepreneurs who have cumulatively spent over a hundred years raising money for various companies and projects. The team has experience in ecommerce, entertainment, logistics and inventing new products. We feel that a platform like FunderThunder will help new ventures get their start and hopefully improve the economy by creating new jobs in the United States and around the world.

The projects and ventures can be commercial projects like new inventions and products or creative endeavors like music albums or films. At this time we are unable to work with charitable groups at this time, we hope to begin working with them shortly.

People need to be engaged with your project, they need to feel that contributing money to your project provides them with a benefit as well. A good starting place is a series of escalating awards for larger and larger individual contributions.

Contributors also like to be able to share in your experience of succeeding. Who does not know someone who talks about they helped a friend or family member succeed at some goal. That same dynamic is work here but on a broader scale. We help the world empower you to reach you goal and the world gets to tell everyone how they helped make it happen. So in your project listing make sure to explain to potential contributors how they can help you become a success and be a part of it as well.

The appropriate funding goal is a different equation for each project. You need to make sure you have figured out your budget to make your project happen, and don’t forget to figure in our fees to the amount of your goal so you don’t run short of contributions to make it happen.

Small projects are great for a platform like FunderThunder and can often be funded quickly if everything is done correctly in setting up your project and the contributors feel it is worthy of their money. Unfortunately from time to time what the contributors feel is worthy and you as the project proponent feel is worthy can be vastly different. This can sometimes be fixed by redoing your project listing other times there is great value to be gained from learning a project is not deemed valuable before you have spent a tremendous amount of time and money on it.

As to what projects may be too big for FunderThunder feel free to see how other similar projects are doing on FunderThunder and use them as your guide. Do not make the mistake of assuming that the past projects are an upper limit on your success, we hope to be continually growing the reach of our platform which should allow for progressively larger projects being funded all of the time.

The reason we ask you to determine how much money you need to make your project a reality is that no one else can figure out how much money you really need. Then to make sure that our contributor’s money is spent correctly we don’t release any contributions until the funding goal is met. Once the goal is met we charge additional contributions when they are pledged. Funder Thunder will not be sending you any funds until the project is fully funded.

We receive five (5%) percent of the contributions for our base fee. We may from time to time offer additional marketing opportunities which anyone can decide if they want to participate or not. We take no ownership interest in any of the projects on the platform, unless we decide to run a project ourselves in which case we will let you about it. We also pass along a flat 3.5% percent fee of the total contributions. This fee covers the cost of processing the contributions. This is the fee is charged to us by our credit card/payment processing partner.

To start a project, click on the "Launch A Project" tab. If you are not logged in then you will be prompted to login first, if you are already logged in you will be taken to the appropriate page to start creating a project. You do need to have created an account in order to be able to launch a project. We advise that before going to the "Launch a Project" page that you do some prep work first and have material prepared for entry into the project form. Things like Project Title, Short Description, Long Description, Project Image. You can create your long description in MS Word and copy and paste directly into the form. Having this material ready will enable you to more efficiently create your project.

Make sure you’re logged in to FunderThunder and click on the "dashboard" link in the header area, and then click on the "Setting" tab. This will allow you to change various attributes of your account including your name.

Make sure you’re logged in to FunderThunder and click on the "dashboard" link in the header area, and then click on the "Notifications" tab. This will allow you to change the various email notifications you can recieve.

At the bottom of the login page click "Forgot your password?"

You can sign in with Facebook using the Facebook login button on the login page or in the header area.

Various rss feeds are available.

Here are some examples.

General feed for all projects.
http://funderthunder.com/all/projects/index.rss

General feed for projects in Phoenix (replace phoenix with your city of interest).
http://funderthunder.com/phoenix/projects/index.rss

General feed for all projects in a particualr category (example shows all 'art' project, replace art with a category name from the list of categories on the site).
http://funderthunder.com/all/projects/category/art.rss

General feed for projects in Phoenix in a particualr category (example shows all 'art' project in Phoenix, replace art with a category name from the list of categories on the site, and replace phoenix with your city of interest).
http://funderthunder.com/phoenix/projects/category/art.rss

General feed for all 'recommended' projects (replace 'all' with your city of interest to just see projects from that city).
http://funderthunder.com/all/projects/filter/recommended.rss

General feed for all 'almost funded' projects (replace 'all' with your city of interest to just see projects from that city).
http://funderthunder.com/all/projects/filter/almost_funded.rss

General feed for all 'popular' projects (replace 'all' with your city of interest to just see projects from that city).
http://funderthunder.com/all/projects/filter/popular.rss

General feed for all 'ending soon' projects (replace 'all' with your city of interest to just see projects from that city).
http://funderthunder.com/all/projects/filter/ending_soon.rss

General feed for all 'small projects' projects (replace 'all' with your city of interest to just see projects from that city).
http://funderthunder.com/all/projects/filter/small_projects.rss

General feed for all 'hall of fame' projects (replace 'all' with your city of interest to just see projects from that city).
http://funderthunder.com/all/projects/filter/hall_of_fame.rss

General feed for a particual project (replace the project name in this example with one you are interested in).
http://funderthunder.com/project/the-adventures-of-heaven-leigh-and-loyal.rss

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