August 12, 2013
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Designer and Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud has raised £1 million through a crowd-funding website for his innovative house building firm Hab Housing. The cash...
August 12, 2013
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This guest post is by Dr Emma Wilson, senior researcher and energy team leader at the International Institute for Environment and Development. How do you raise $1...
August 12, 2013
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In the last few years, the buzzwords for Internet businesses have been “crowdsourcing” and “crowdsavings”. Of late, “crowdfunding” has caught the imagination of the tech...
August 12, 2013
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Like many people, I have thought a lot about the subject of poverty. Growing up in Oakland, California, I lived in relative wealth, while just...
August 12, 2013
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NEW YORK — For years, independent bookstores have taken creative steps to fight off challenges from Amazon.com and the superstores by building in-house espresso bars,...
August 9, 2013
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We’re noticing an increasing number Skoll Awardees using crowdfunding for specific projects, and wanted to share more details in case you’re contemplating doing the same....
August 9, 2013
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In the startup world people pitch ideas quite often in the shorthand of "we are X for Y", drawing on an existing (and successful) "X"...
August 9, 2013
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Funding Circle – a UK based Peer 2 Peer crowdlending platform – has announced that it is expanding the type of organisations it will broker loans for....
August 9, 2013
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When IRobot (IRBT) first sent Scott Miller to Asia a decade ago to help oversee manufacturing of the Roomba, its robotic vacuum cleaner, he saw it as a...