Crowd funding platform

Local economy is controlled by giant conglomorates. How can we rescue local SMEs?
Is crowdfunding a perfect solution? Have you heard about 'locavasting' (local + investing)?
Local investment is more than just exchanging money...

Look at some of crowd funding webistes.

http://vimeo.com/33226941
http://www.kickstarter.com/
http://www.quirky.com/
http://www.startupaddict.com/
http://www.seedrs.com/

And the next stage for crowd funding
https://flattr.com/

http://appsplit.com/

Incubation instead of inestigation...
(I need to read this page: http://trendinsight.biz/archives/72427)