The Mothly Fool – Buried in crowd-funding web site Indiegogo this month is an unusual proposal for those wishing to get in on the occasionally lucrative music business. Start-up Gideen wants you to contribute to its website development costs via Indiegogo, and in return Gideen will...
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Production company Movie Mogul (PANIC BUTTON, SHORTCUTS TO HELL) have taken to equity crowdfunding website Seedrs.com in a bid to raise £25,000 towards the post-production of their next film; supernatural horror thriller THE SLEEPING ROOM, which will go into production by the end of the...
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British television presenter Kevin McCloud’s design-led housing development firm has broken the world record for equity crowdfunding by securing investments in excess of £1.9 million from members of the public via online platform Crowdcube. Established by the presenter of television series Grand Designs to build well-designed,...
Continue ReadingOriginally published in the Vancouver Sun Forget the rubber-chicken lunches and campaign cheques. A Coquitlam politician has turned to the crowdfunding site Indiegogo to raise campaign funds for the upcoming Coquitlam council byelection. But while Coquitlam candidate Bonita Zarrillo reached her funding goal in a few weeks,...
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From time to time I will start highlighting some groups that are finding new ways to solve some of the many energy financing challenges that we face. I will be looking at both groups that are finding ways to fill gaps as well as companies...
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Ok, that’s a ridiculous oversimplification, but not completely untrue. I’m currently in the midst of a crowdfunding campaign to raise post-production funds for my first feature film, Sidewalk Traffic (a comedy/drama about a struggling filmmaker and new father in post-Great Recession NYC), which I wrote, co-produced and directed...
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