That said, crowdfunding may be a good way to raise sponsor capital, or the amount of equity outside investors require you to have in the deal to have "skin in the game".In summary, I believe crowdfunding is a game changer that will enable thousands of entrepreneurs to seed their ideas.

The stories they tell me about the competition would make your skin crawl.

With no skin in the game and without strict screening these places get trashed often.

That being said, there is no rule that says you have to put in a share, it's just more difficult to raise money from LPs with both no track record and no skin in the game.juan

Plenty of ways to skin a cat, good luck man!  

It's only gonna cost you money and time: thicken tha' skin.

If you go to a higher court, try to access a mediator who isn't worried about their political skin.

Even with hard money and private money, they typically want to see some skin in the game.Hopefully that helps!

It's called a Progressive Tax System for a reason.My opinion is that those investing money and taking the risk of losing it should be treated more 'special' than the common W-2 worker, who has no real skin in the game.

Make sure you hone in on your value proposition to not just the deal but the team as a whole and try to chip in something, even if it is fairly minimalIf I was the money partner in your scenario, I wouldn't partner up with someone who is bringing just the sweat equity without some sort of substantial skin in the game since it is far too easy in a situation like this for them to leave the other partners holding the bag if the project goes sideways