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....
September 27, 2013
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Hab hits £1.5 million crowdfunding target
Kevin McLoud’s Hab housing company will close its crowdfunding investment campaign on a high this Sunday after banking more than £1.5 million The cash was...
September 27, 2013
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Star Citizen passes $20 million in crowd-funding
Cloud Imperium Games' crowd-funding campaign just keeps on giving Chris Roberts' Cloud Imperium Games has announced that its crowd-funding campaign for the PC space-sim Star Citizen...
September 27, 2013
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The crowdfunding caveat: Most campaigns fail
In April 2013, Dustin Driver looked like a poster boy for Kickstarter success. His tech-savvy backpack venture, Packswell, exceeded its funding goal by 33 percent. He...
September 27, 2013
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Exclusive: George Galloway will fund his London mayoral campaign using crowdfunding
In a soon-to-be-aired episode of “The Keiser Report,” British MP George Galloway will announce he is exploring a bid for London Mayor, financed with crowdfunding....
September 27, 2013
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What Is The Next Crowdfunding Evolution?
It’s been said that crowdfunding is less of a straight-forward investment and more like buying wine futures. You’re essentially paying a discounted rate for next year’s crop....
September 26, 2013
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Issue municipal bonds? No thanks, we’ll crowdfund instead
When most towns need trash cans, they use money raised from taxes or municipal bonds. But when a city that emerged from bankruptcy less than...
September 26, 2013
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Nicola Horlick: "Crowdfunding is a drug going straight into the lifeblood of the economy"
Ms Horlick launched a crowdfunding “experiment” in July of this year. She created the project on Seedrs, a platform which allows ordinary people to pledge...
September 25, 2013
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The rise of Crowdfunding, Peer-to-Peer and Peer-to-Business platforms
In 2006, Jeff Howe coined the term crowdsourcing to describe what he saw happening increasingly around him, primarily as a result of the internet. In...