Do something big. My experience has been that funders are pretty persuaded by the impressive cost-to-impact ratio. But the trick is to go after funders for the

Do something big. My experience has been that funders are pretty persuaded by the impressive cost-to-impact ratio. But the trick is to go after funders for the particular field you're in, not general technology funding. So for a book-related project I did, we went after funding from library groups. They're much more excited by the power of tech than tech groups.