{"id":43299,"date":"2011-08-24T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=13627"},"modified":"2011-08-24T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T23:09:31","slug":"raising-funds-on-google-vs-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/24\/raising-funds-on-google-vs-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising funds on Google+ vs. Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/07\/quest-for-the-malagasy-genotype\/\">looking for a Malagasy genotype<\/a>. I found one. Or at least a potential one. At this point I need to have the person genotyped. I&#8217;ve sent the kit overseas, and within 1-2 months I should have a post up analyzing the ancestral affiliations of this individual (who is of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betsileo\">Betsileo<\/a> background<\/a>). All that being said this costs money, and I&#8217;m willing to pay for it myself (in fact, I have). But the total costs is ~$280, and that&#8217;s not trivial. I&#8217;d like to do this sort of &#8220;crowd-sourced&#8221; analysis in the future, but not at this personal cost (I&#8217;m not including my labor hours, just the bare minimum fixed costs of shipping the materials, and typing the sample).<\/p>\n<p>\nSo I started thinking of various ways to fund this project, as I have a large number of people who follow this blog, and, who are enthusiastic about personal genomics. After considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/\">Kickstarter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/tour\/\">gofundme<\/a>, I went lower-tech.  <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/109962494182694679780\/posts\">I put up a post on Google+<\/a>, asking for a &#8220;pledge&#8221; of at least $10 for the project. <b>I quickly received ~$200 of pledges<\/b>. After sending the Paypal funds requests I &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/Tb8qOYxU--M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know I&#8217;ve been looking for a Malagasy genotype. I found one. Or at least a potential one. At this point I need to have the person genotyped. I&#8217;ve sent the kit overseas, and within 1-2 months I should have a post up analyzing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43335,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43299\/revisions\/43335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}