Since President Barack Obama enacted a law intended to spark business growth by encouraging “crowdfunding” of startups a year ago, new sites have sprung up employing different crowdfunding models toward raising money for biopharmas and researchers. (You can learn about two of them, Poliwogg and Microryza, here.) Have you jumped on the crowdfunding bandwagon?

Poll Question:
Have you ever used crowdfunding to raise funds for research?

Yes, and it was great!
1

Yes, but it was a bust
0

No, but I’d like to give it a try
3

No, it seems like a waste of time
6

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