October 22, 2013
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Crowdfunding the arts in South Africa
Source: BBC Money for a Monteverdi melody, and Bach for their buck. The Cape Consort is a Cape Town-based ensemble in search of investment...
October 22, 2013
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It’s Here: The World Bank Report On Crowdfunding
For the better part of a year we’ve been anticipating a report that was to be the product of a joint venture by thought leaders...
October 21, 2013
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Innovation Diary: Why one company has chosen crowdfunding over venture capitalists
Source: City A.M. HOW CAN you decide on the best method of financing your business’s growth? The Harvard academic Paul Gompers, in his prescient...
October 21, 2013
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Could Crowdfunding Replace Traditional Marketing?
Source: Forbes I posed that question this week to my friend Dr. Phil Windley, an expert technologist, Executive Producer of IT Conversations and a serial entrepreneur. He...
October 21, 2013
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WePay’s API pays off, handles 648% more crowdfunding volume than last year
Source: Venture Beat When Occupy Wall Street decided to accept donations, the eclectic group of protestors turned to crowdfunding service WePay, which helped Occupy raise...
October 21, 2013
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Social Web for Good: Crowdfunding Better Communities
Source: Mashable When the San Francisco Department of Public Health banned Virginia Ramos in June from selling the handmade tamales she'd been peddling for...
October 21, 2013
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'Atheist church' seeks £500,000 in crowdfunding to build online platform
Source: Wired The Sunday Assembly, a godless congregation set up by comedians Sanderson Jones and Pippa Evans, is looking to raise £500,000 to build...
October 21, 2013
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'Happy Days’ is here again as a musical with crowd-funding
Source: The Telegraph It may not have graced prime-time British TV for decades, but the iconic American sitcom that made household names of “The Fonz”...
October 17, 2013
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Crowdfunding: putting your money where your values are
As the farm behind the Archers tries to raise £1m, Mike Scott asks whether crowdfunding will continue its exponential rise or be held back by...