Money Fix: Crowdfunding to raise capital

... $2.7 billion in 2012, up 81 percent from 2011. But is it for you? Tobias Holler, an associate professor at the New York Institute for Technology in Old Westbury, raised more than $30,000 on Kickstarter to help build a student-designed recycling ...

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