Ask PG: Can you start a HN crowd-funding venture?
I don't think crowdfunding is good for startups.  For startups, having large numbers of investors is bad, and having inexperienced investors is bad.  So having a very large number of inexperienced investors is the worst scenario possible.<p>The right way to get money from large numbers of people is to sell them your product, like Inpulse did, not to sell them your stock.