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title: Crowd(funding) Control
date: 2014-06-10T13:44:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://terp.umd.edu/crowdfunding-control"
section: Articles
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# Crowd(funding) Control

*June 10, 2014*


Your extra $10 is more powerful than you think, thanks to the booming trend of crowdfunding. Instead of one person giving $10 million to a cause, now a million people with $10 can do a lot of good. Joe Bailey, a research associate professor of finance and executive director of the [QUEST](http://www.http//www.rhsmith.umd.edu/programs/undergraduate-programs/academics/fellows-special-programs/quest) honors program, walks us through how pooling our money can turn a mini-investor into a movie producer, a banker, a mortgage lender, a venture capitalist or a philanthropist.

![](https://umd-terp.files.svdcdn.com/production/images/Innovation-flow-chart.webp?s=a80dc12dcbe69bbfe7f44f1ef799653d)




**Issue:** [Spring 2014](https://terp.umd.edu/editions/spring-2014)


**Types:** [Innovation](https://terp.umd.edu/category/innovation)