Journal article
Predicting crowdfunding project success based on backers' language preferences
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol.72(12), pp.1558-1574
12/2021
DOI: 10.1002/asi.24530
Abstract
Project success is critical in the crowdfunding domain. Rather than the existing project-centric prediction methods, we propose a novel backer-centric prediction method. We identify each backer's preferences based on their pledge history and calculate the cosine similarity between backer's preferences and the project as each backer's persuasibility. Finally, we aggregate all the backers' persuasibility to predict project success. To validate our method, we crawled data on 183,886 projects launched during or before December 2014 on Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website. We selected 4,922 backers with a total of 442,793 pledges to identify backers' preferences. The results show that a backer is more likely to be persuaded by a project that is more similar to the backer's preferences. Our findings not only demonstrate the efficacy of backers' pledge history for predicting crowdfunding project success but also verify that a backer-centric method can supplement the existing project-centric approaches. Our model and findings enable crowdfunding platform agencies, fund-seeking entrepreneurs, and investors to predict the success of a crowdfunding project.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Predicting crowdfunding project success based on backers' language preferences
- Creators
- Qianzhou Du - Nanjing UniversityJing Li - Nanjing UniversityYanqing Du - Xi'an University of Finance and EconomicsG. Alan Wang - Virginia TechWeiguo Fan - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol.72(12), pp.1558-1574
- DOI
- 10.1002/asi.24530
- ISSN
- 2330-1635
- eISSN
- 2330-1643
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2021
- Academic Unit
- Business Analytics
- Record Identifier
- 9984380434602771
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