kickstarter

http://www.kickstarter.com/

That’s a real deal!! You can fund directly the actual creator of… anything!! You may become a sort of micro-venture-capitalist talking directly to ideators.

As an example, I was looking into comics book writer/designer: you can fund them at various levels (giving from few bucks to 100 and more) gettin’ different “rewards” over the product itself.

Clever. Smart.