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"FORTUNE &amp;#8212; Donald Trump is putting his stamp of approval, but not his name, on a new crowdfunding platform that is scheduled to launch tomorrow. He&amp;#8217;s also an investor in the site, and each week will personally contribute to one or more projects that strike his fancy.\nIt&amp;#8217;s called FundAnything, and was the brainchild of The Learning Annex founder Bill Zanker.\n&amp;#8220;People in tech and some Brooklyn hipsters know about crowdfunding, but it hasn&amp;#8217;t been brought to the masses yet,&amp;#8221; Zanker explains. &amp;#8220;This is a very big idea &amp;#8212; like eBay or online dating &amp;#8212; and we&amp;#8217;re just in the beginning stages.&amp;#8221;\nIn many ways, FundAnything resembles existing\u00A0crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. It offers users a way to raise money from other users, and takes a matchmaking commission (5% for fully-funded projects, 9% for projects that don&amp;#8217;t meet their goal). What&amp;#8217;s different, however, is that\u00A0FundAnything neither screens projects nor has any real exclusions. For example, FundAnything projects could include tech inventions, new uniforms for a school sports team, helping out someone with a medical emergency, etc.\nThe other difference is Trump&amp;#8217;s involvement. Not only will he personally back new projects each week &amp;#8212; tomorrow he&amp;#8217;ll unveil the recipients of his first personal investments &amp;#8212; \u00A0but he&amp;#8217;ll also promote those choices via his Twitter feed (which currently has 2.2 million followers).\nZanker understands that Trump is a polarizing political figure, but does not believe such sentiments extend to the business world.\n&amp;#8220;Everyone knows Donald is a genius businessman,&amp;#8221; \u00A0Zanker says. &amp;#8220;We&amp;#8217;re not talking about politics here. If you want to fund anything, there is no better person in the world to have supporting you than Donald Trump.&amp;#8221;\nAs for FundAnything&amp;#8217;s business model, expect the commissions to be just the start. Zanker says the site is planning live events &amp;#8212; such as how to raise money for real estate ventures &amp;#8212; and that it already has people on the ground to expand into non-U.S. markets. When asked if the site would expand to equity-based crowdfunding once the SEC sets such rules, Zanker was noncommittal.\nSign up for Dan&amp;#8217;s daily email newsletter on deals and deal-makers:\u00A0GetTermSheet.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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