Keri Sears Uses the Funding Platform Kickstarter to Solicit Money

question 4

Multiple Choice

Keri Sears uses the funding platform Kickstarter to solicit money to start a not-for-profit organization that promotes folk musicians and revives interest in the folk and traditional forms of music in America.She invites people to fund the business project and she states that donors will be honored on the organization's website.She sets a six-month goal to raise the money.Keri is using which of the following forms of financing?

• A) angel investors
• B) business incubator
• C) threshold pledge system
• D) fund and release system
• E) crowdfunding

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