Crowdfunding is taking over in Germany. First mover www.startnext.de offers crowdfunding for art and cultural projects. They have a 40% success rate, which means that 40% of the projects get funded. Co-founder Tino Kressner provides some insights on the process of starting startnext, which was actually inspired by sellaband.com rather then kickstarter.com. The plattform is so far bootstrapped and realized as an non-for-profit business. They have ambitious goals to be realized till the end of the year. Well, just check yourself what Tino has to say about crowdfunding in Germany.