1. Utilizing Social Graphs – Implementing social graph application programming interfaces (APIs) for crowdfunding platforms will make it easy to see friends of friends who are investing in crowdfunding campaigns due to popular social media networks such as Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, Meetup, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube and others. Data mining and big data services will become very sophisticated services for the crowdfunding industry. Once these services get started it will be very hard for fraudulent companies to succeed because they will vetted by millions of investors working together to form a policing crowd.

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