Predictive Track Record · 2003
CROWD POWERED, the methodology
The CROWD POWERED twelve-step framework is taught as a generalized, sustainable model for participatory venture economics — applicable to any industry, structured to refuse single-principal risk and to reinvest ninety percent of revenue back into the business. ArtistShare appeared in the same year for artists only; Indiegogo and Kickstarter brought a narrower, rewards-only application of the same crowdfunding logic to the mainstream five to six years later.
CROWD POWERED methodology developed and taught: a sustainable, virtuous-cycle generalization of crowdfunding for any business in any industry — not extractive.
ArtistShare (2003) launched the same year for artists only. Indiegogo (2008) and Kickstarter (2009) brought general-purpose rewards crowdfunding to the mainstream — five and six years later.
What can be verified.
University of Houston Bauer College / Wolff Center vetting (2005). Montalbano endorsement: "THE most powerful TRUE Economic Stimulus Program ever seen."
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The 2003 development of CROWD POWERED is the methodological centerpiece of the Predictive Track Record. It is the entry at which the discipline is named, formalized, and taught — and it is the entry from which every other track-record claim derives explanatory power. The full essay, From Marillion to CROWD POWERED: Generalizing Crowdfunding to a Sustainable Methodology in 2003, is forthcoming in the Library.