Ethan O. Perlstein, PhD. at the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University on the structure and dynamics of a crowdfunding process:

Crowd­sourc­ing Dis­cov­ery our “Open Sci­ence” study of the effects of amphet­a­mines on brain cells, went live last Thurs­day Octo­ber 4th. We kicked off the 45-day crowd­fund­ing cam­paign with an evening launch party at Deweys Flat­iron in New York City.