With all the negativity and skepticism swirling around the SEC’s recent proposition to liberalize the laws of equity crowdfunding, it’s time for some contrarian content that sheds some more positive light on the topic. For those of you who have not been keeping current with recent developments,...
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A compact smartphone battery pack that charges itself every time you charge your phone has smashed its crowdfunding target on Kickstarter, after receiving significant media attention at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The device, known as Jump, consists of a 800mAh battery attached to a...
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In a recent piece for the Center for Digital Ethics and Policy, I discussed the ethical limits of crowdfunding: should platforms host campaigns that promote hatred? How should they handle campaigns that are legally dubious? Should they be worried about their success crowding out the activities...
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When Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss helped lead the charge to launch investment crowdfunding in the U.S. they couldn’t have guessed at its global impact. Now, having completed a months-long report to the World Bank on the likely economic impact of crowdfunding in the developing world, they...
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3m people backed projects on the website, with 19.9k of them successfully hitting their targets. Crowdfunding website Kickstarter says visitors pledged $480m to projects in 2013, up from $319.8m the previous year. The stats were released as part of its end-of-year report, which also revealed that 3m people...
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While many of us have a lot to thank our parents for, Danae Ringelmann credits hers with inspiring her to help establish a new global industry. Ms Ringelmann is one of the three co-founders of Indiegogo, one of the world's first - and now one of...
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The UK Crowdfunding Association is a newly formed membership association for the high-growth crowdfunding sector in the UK. Information on the UKCFA is here: http://staging-ukcfa.mystagingwebsite.com/. We are now recruiting a crowd manager to support the day to day running and promotional activities of the UK's crowdfunding trade association. Please...
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LEXINGTON, Ky., -- Martin Nielsen, equine parasitologist, veterinarian and assistant professor at the University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Center, has launched the first research crowdfunding project at UK and possibly the first such effort in the field of veterinary science. Crowdfunding is a relatively new term...
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Will 2014 be the year equity crowdfunding arrives in big way for us? Maybe, if we get our act together. The world's most popular crowdfunding site is Kickstarter, whose pioneering experience highlights crowdfunding's huge upside potential, as well as its downside risk. Kickstarter started out as...
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There is no shortage of crowdfunding websites out there, vying to help you raise cash for your big idea but the two highest profile outfits remain Kickstarter and Indiegogo — the former having the reputation of the 800 pound gorilla in the crowdfunding room. According to...
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