[open-science] Science Crowd Funding

Wed Apr 10 19:31:36 UTC 2013

Cindy - thanks for the clarification.  I definitely misinterpreted that.
 So you'll be using WeFunder for the next round or they just profiled you
because you were also in the crowd funding space?  They certainly put a ton
of work into producing a very nicely polished profile for you!

Tom

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Cindy Wu <cindy at microryza.com> wrote:

> Hey Tom, i just want to clarify that microryza is not crowdfunded.
> Wefunder's just shows the amounts we've raised offline. We used traditional
> methods to fund microryza a combination of investment and grants.
>
> Although, crowdfunding is an interesting option for Startups and I am a
> fan of Wefunder.
>
> Cindy
> —
> Sent from Mailbox <https://bit.ly/SZvoJe> for iPhone
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> It'll be interesting to see how many of these crowdfunding sites the
>> market can support and whether we really need a different one for each
>> little niche.  Both Microryza  <https://wefunder.com/microryza> ($162,000)
>> and The Open Science Space <http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-open-science-space--2?website_name=opensciencespace> ($40)
>> are themselves crowdfunded, so why not just use a generic platform like
>> Kickstarter or IndieAGoGo for science/research too?  I smell consolidation
>> in the wind.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Cindy Wu <cindy at microryza.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I'm one of the founders of microryza
>>>
>>
>> "Magic School Bus + Bill Nye the Science Guy + NOVA special + National
>> Geographic = Microryza"
>>
>> Darn!  I was hoping that was going to turn out to be a cool acronym
>> instead of just a string of words.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>
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