November 5, 2013
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Crowdfunding is growing up. GE Ventures, the venture capital wing of General Electric, today entered a co-investment partnership with Israeli crowdfunding platform OurCrowd that will...
November 4, 2013
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Agrawal et al. (2010) described the rise of CF in the context of three factors: (i) the shortage of capital engendered by the current global...
November 4, 2013
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Crowdfunding raised almost £1.8 billion in 2012 for tens of thousands of ventures. This is set to...
November 4, 2013
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Sir David Attenborough hopes to raise £110,000 to help save the mountain gorilla, through his first ever crowdfunding campaign. Sir David Attenborough has launched his...
November 4, 2013
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London businesswoman Nicola Horlick is planning to start a crowdfunding business named Money&Co early next year that would help businesses to source financing directly from...
November 4, 2013
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Former fund manager Nicola Horlick is launching crowdfunding business Money&Co early next year. The new venture will allow investors to finance loans to small businesses...
November 4, 2013
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Skoll - Social Entrepreneurship We are entering the fifth week of the Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge on CrowdRise. So far, the organizations have raised more than...
November 4, 2013
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In recession era Europe, much talk is of ‘innovative’ or ‘alternative’ financing for sustainable energy – meaning money other than the public purse. In 2012...
November 4, 2013
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The crowdfunding service Kickstarter reached an important milestone last week. The company’s website reported that Kickstarter has now funded over 50,000 projects, with pledges coming from...