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We’ve all heard of those amazing or ridiculous ideas that people start crowdfunding campaigns for, earning well past their goal and even into the millions in some cases.

How did they pull it off? There are probably a lot of tricks and secrets to the game, but who better to tell us about how to crowdfund the right way than Slava Rubin, the founder and CEO of crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.

Slava got his start through charities.

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Born in Belarus and raised in Pennsylvania, his father died of cancer when he was young. Around a decade later, he started his first charity to fight cancer his way using the internet.

“I wanted to do something good about the fact that my father died of cancer and turn it into a positive.”

But the internet back in 2005 wasn’t the same as we have today which made raising money through it very difficult and frustrating- so Slava and his partners decided to change that.

They created a platform for activists and entrep