November 4, 2013
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Crowdfunding The Hardware Revolution
Scott Miller is the CEO of Dragon Innovation, a company whose mission is to help hardware entrepreneurs succeed in every phase of the journey from...
November 4, 2013
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Scott Miller is the CEO of Dragon Innovation, a company whose mission is to help hardware entrepreneurs succeed in every phase of the journey from...
November 4, 2013
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File this under “holiday gifts for next year”. A startup called Play-i has opened a crowdfunding campaign to put into production a pair of educational robots that...
October 30, 2013
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SyndicateRoomone of the UK's leading Equity Crowdfunding platforms will be hosting what looks set to be a very timely and interesting event. The crowd can now invest...
October 25, 2013
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Having won the account last month, pitching against three other agencies, creative agency other takes a bold approach to taking InvestingZone to market. Crowd equity platform InvestingZone offer investors a new way of backing companies for people who want the higher returns and excitement of entrepreneurial SME and start-up businesses –and are willing to take understandable risks. Running through October and November, our campaign targets the confident investor with an off and online media mix that includes national press, online space plus ambient channels such as taxis, and oyster card covers handed out at key city underground stations. With crowdfunding noise increasing the challenge was to carve out a unique place for InvestingZone which is the only crowdfunding platform where the directors have direct venture capital expertise. In a series of creative treatments, no-frills headlines – ‘Not for idiots’, ‘Don’t follow the crowd, work it’, ‘Nobody tells you what to do’, ‘The cleverest person you know is you’ - pull no punches to attract the financially savvy to register. Jon Dobinson, Executive Creative Director at other said: “The InvestingZone campaign targets sophisticated investors who have seen plenty of financial marketing. People with the confidence and knowledge to take big, entrepreneurial investment decisions are used to thinking differently and aren’t afraid to back their own judgment. Our work stands out because it speaks directly to them and makes a big impact on a limited media budget. It’s a big departure from traditional old financial advertising, just...
October 25, 2013
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Source: The Fine Print Author: Simon Deane-Johns The FCA has today published its crowdfunding consultation, covering both crowd investment in equities and debt securities (which the...
October 25, 2013
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Source: The Pragmatist Author: Simon Deane-Johns October is 'crowdfunding month' out there in the regulatory world. The European Commission is consulting. The SEC is consulting. Some US states...
October 25, 2013
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Source: IFA The crowdfunding sector has broadly welcomed FCA proposals for regulating the sector though there is some concern amongst platforms over a 10% cap...
October 25, 2013
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Source: MyC4 Last week The World Bank published a new report; Crowdfunding’s Potential for the Developing World. And its worthwhile a closer study. Some of...
October 25, 2013
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Source: Blue and Green Tomorrow The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has tabled tougher regulation for the increasingly popular crowdfunding industry. Crowdfunding allows individuals to...