User talk:Sydneymdavison/sandbox

About

The site was founded in 2008 and was one of the first sites to offer crowd funding. The site allows people to solicit funds for an idea, charity or start-up business. Nine million people from all around the world visit the site on a monthly basis. Indiegogo is a rewards-based crowd-funding site, meaning donors, investors, or customers are willing to pre-order a project or a product and receive a gift rather than an equity stake in the company. Although CEO Slava Rubin stated that the company is interested in moving towards equity funding in the future once the laws around it become clearer in the U.S.

Terms and Regulations

If you are between the ages of 13-17 you may not use the sight without a parent or legal guardian. You must be at least 18 years of age to use the sight without consent.

Campaign owners are not allowed to create a Campaign that is attempting to raise funds for illegal activities or if a Campaign is claiming to do something impossible or clearly fake.

Registration and account information must be valid and truthful

If the campaign is offering Perks they are not permitted to offer: •	Any form of interest in the company or venture •	Any means of financial incentive •	Cannot offer alcohol, drugs or substance, weapons or ammunition, or any form of lottery or gambling. •	Ideas or opportunities of hate, personal injury, death, damage of property, •	Anything else that can be distributed that violates applicable law or violates another person’s right if distributed.

Community Guidelines

Indiegogo works to eliminate the spread of hatred, abuse, disrespect, profanity, harassment or spam. By using the site you agree to adhere to the community guidelines and agree to not break any of the following: •	Do not use Indiegogo to promote violence, degradation, subjugation, hatred against an individual or group based on race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. •	Your campaign must not contain sexually explicit content or post to sites that contain sexually explicit or inappropriate material. •	Engaging in any activity that interferes or disrupts the proper working of the site or its users. Do not spam comments with inappropriate messages or offers with goods or services. •	Take any action that imposes, in Indiegogo’s sole discretion, an unreasonable load on the Company’s infrastructure. Indiegogo reserves the right to change and alter these guidelines at any time.

Investors In May 2014 the company expanded and welcomed new investors which included Sir Richard Branson founder of Virgin Group, Max Levchin Yelp Chairman and co-founder of PayPal, Yahoo Board chairman Maynard Webb, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Founding partner Tim Draper, Dawn Lepore the former chief Executive of drugstores.com, and former Visa president Hans Morris. The new money and support acquired follows a $40 million Series B financing that will accelerate its international expansion and develop new product features.