How to Save on Your Midlife Crisis
Of course, it is possible you're stuck in a dead-end job. If so, you can always quit (the right way) and start that business you've been thinking about for years. There are plenty of tools in today's connected world to help get your idea off the ground.
With a good idea and a decent mock-up of the thing, you can follow in the footsteps of thousands of entrepreneurs before you and try your luck on Kickstarter, the community-funding website that leverages micro-donations to finance aspiring entrepreneurs' big ideas. Among the site's notable successes are the more than $3 million pledged to produce a video game, $65,000 to produce a children's book and $250,000 raised to develop a "windowfarm" home gardening kit, proving that a simple idea can sometimes launch a significant revenue stream.
--Written by Greg Emerson in New York
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