SUMMARY:One of the most spectacularly successful crowdfunded journalism startups is a website based in Holland called De Correspondent, which has raised more than $1.7M and has almost 25,000 subscribers tweet this We’ve been writing a lot lately about online journalism startups like Matter — which was acquired...
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The British platform will have some immediate advantages over local rivals as it leaps across the English Channel, namely cross-border scale and a higher funding limit than that available in some mainland European countries. The British crowdfunding platform Seedrs, which offers investors equity rather than “perks”, has...
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Before entrepreneurs rush to a crowdfunding site with dreams of glory, they should think hard about how their prototype and eventual product will scale. Here are a few steps to avoid a mess. Remember the old days of launching a new hardware product? The process went...
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Before designers and entrepreneurs spend all their savings making a product idea come to life, crowdfunding platforms like Indiegogo allow them to test the demand for their product and even develop new features. The hardest part about designing a new product or service is that you...
Continue ReadingSource: GigaOm Commissioners at the Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to go forward with a proposal that will let small businesses raise money on the internet from mom-and-pop investors without having to go through cumbersome SEC procedures to register securities. In an open meeting webcast...
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