November 6, 2013
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Crowdfunding: Empowering Planet Entrepreneurs
Editor's Note: The following is a guest post from David Drake, founder of LDJ Capital and the Soho Loft. Drake writes in to discuss a new...
November 6, 2013
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Who Let the Dog Out: On New Crowdfunding Rules and Why It Is Time for Us to Wise Up
If equity crowdfunding had the same alert system color code as Homeland Security, it would have jumped from green to orange on October 23rd, 2013. For...
November 6, 2013
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Crowdfunding lets you test the market for your product before you even make it
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...
November 6, 2013
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Crowdfunding for charities, social enterprise and socially responsible investment
Kieran Garvey @Microwdfinance Government spending since 2007 has been cut drastically across the board. According to Dr Simon Duffy (Centre for Welfare Reform, 2013,) social...
November 5, 2013
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II. Why crowdfunding is rising: demand for greater autonomy and control over our money
Simon Deane-Johns, company secretary of Zopa, the world’s first debt based, peer-to-peer crowdfunding platform, asserts alternative finance is not merely driven by recession, (ACCA, 2013.)...
November 5, 2013
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'Superwoman' Nicola Horlick on crowdfunding venture
Investment manager Nicola Horlick - known as 'Superwoman' - has been telling BBC Breakfast about her new 'crowdfunding' venture, Money&Co, which enables small companies...
November 5, 2013
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Success of Kannada thriller 'Lucia' brightens prospects for new model called 'crowdfunding'
NEW DELHI/CHENNAI: The commercial success of Kannada thriller "Lucia", amongst a handful of Indian movies to have raised money through the crowdfunding route, is expected to boost...
November 5, 2013
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GE becomes first corporate partner for equity crowdfunding in OurCrowd deal
Crowd-sourcing platform OurCrowd on Monday announced General Electric’s venture-capital unit, GE Ventures, has signed on as the first corporate funder for the platform. “We do...
November 5, 2013
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Why Crowdfunding Rocks
There's no doubt that the Internet has changed the way we do many things. I cannot remember, for instance, the last time I visited my...