[yrochat]

More than a million: two years ago, Double Fine crowdfunding project revolutionised video game industry and revived a genre long-time abandoned by major companies: adventure games https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-...

It is the best known proof that it works, that people can be heard when someone is ready to listen them. And they will give money for that.

And this, this will probably never happen in Spain.

Edit: > million (reason for this answer).

[omegant]

I´don´t mean that crowdfounding doesn´t work, I mean that reaching a million (like Kickstarter projects do) is going to be very difficult for any Spanish startup. There is no culture of giving money to help a business

Not so for "popular" projects, that are promoted via TV programs or so.. those will surely reach 1 mill easily.

On the other side, charity is very popular and people donates money (small and big quantities) when they see a need.

Of course it can always become fashionable, with everybody crowdfounding something, but that´s when a big scam will take place, with a scandal in the media and crowdfounding getting hit hard.

Edit I changed crowdsourcing for crowdfounding