" Several very large businesses have in recent years turned to running campaigns on crowdfunding sites. One of the more important reasons these businesses use such platforms is that it affords them the opportunity to ______ their concepts, under the assumption that concepts that see good traction on these platforms will see good traction in the general market, and conversely concepts that see poor traction on these platforms will see low demand in the general market and should thus be abandoned. "

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