October 2, 2013
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Hyperloop To Be Crowdfunded & Crowdsourced?
Crowdfunding and crowdsourcing the Hyperloop? Well, if this happened, it would certainly go down in the history books as a major crowdfunding milestone and a...
October 1, 2013
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Skoll Foundation and The Huffington Post Launch First Crowdfunding Challenge for Social Entrepreneurs
The Skoll Foundation, in partnership with The Huffington Post, is launching its first crowdfunding challenge designed to provide some of the world's leading social entrepreneurs...
October 1, 2013
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Politicians turn to crowdfunding for campaign cash
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...
October 1, 2013
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Can Internal Crowdfunding Help Companies Surface Their Best Ideas?
Crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have proven adept at channeling funding –millions of dollars in cases like the Pebble watch – to innovative new products...
October 1, 2013
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What really happens after a crowdfunding campaign
According to Kickstarter, more than 48,000 companies have been launched through its platform, raising over $775 million. Impressive. But what really happens to these companies? Are they one-hit...
September 30, 2013
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Lumifold's low-cost portable 3D printer exceeds crowdfunding target
This backpack-sized 3D printer has already smashed its $1,500 target on Indiegogo – so can we really expect it to take off? The LumiFold photopolymerisation 3D...
September 30, 2013
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Enterprise crowdfunding: How an IBM experiment improved innovation and morale
This is a guest post by David Drake, of LDJ Capital. Can the principles of crowdfunding work within the walls of an established corporation such...
September 27, 2013
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Ten Ways to Democratize Our Broken Economy
The richest 400 Americans now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million taken together. The political system is in deadlock. Social and economic pain...
September 27, 2013
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Diabetes startup Perle Bioscience crowdfunding $2M
An Atlanta startup that's developing new drugs for reversing Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes is raising $2 million through crowd funding. Perle Bioscience Inc....