Additionally, I expect there to be a flight to quality among crowdfunding portals which will kick-off a cycle that allows only the highest quality crowdfunding sites to thrive.
"If there's too much uncertainty, no one will want to take the first step, " John Paglia, a small-business researcher at Pepperdine University, says of kick-starting the cycle of credit, spending and growth.
Inferences from difficulty may not only impact immediate deliberation, but may kick off a quicksand cycle that leads people to spend more and more time on a decision that initially seemed rather unimportant.