There’s a brand new crowd funding website in town, and its name is Petridish.org. Like Kickstarter, it allows aspiring project creators to pitch their ideas in the form of video and text to the open Web, offering promotional material in exchange for donations. Like Kickstarter, Petridish takes a 5 percent cut of all successfully funded projects for operating expenses and leaves the rest to the project creators to use to turn their ideas into reality.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=100593