September 20, 2013
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The crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter has been used to fund everything from a giant flammable brain at Burning Man festival to life-changing orthopaedic limbs for stroke...
September 20, 2013
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When Kelli Space graduated from Northeastern University in 2009 with $200,000 of student loan debt, she panicked. Given that she had an entry-level office manager job that...
September 20, 2013
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It’s one trend that’s been hard to miss, being mostly clipped and/or strapped in plain sight. To spell it out, hardware startups — and the...
September 20, 2013
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In her book Cash From the Crowd, Sally Outlaw, founder and CEO of crowdfunding website peerbackers, reveals the secrets of funding your business with help from colleagues,...
September 20, 2013
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8NQtREe_E&feature=share Streamed live on 16 Sep 2013 An event to mark the RSA's launch into the world of crowdfunding, when an expert panel gathers to...
September 17, 2013
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After my last two columns about howcrowdfunding might be used to raise cashfor real estate projects, I was swamped with calls from crowdfunding platforms whose principals told...
September 17, 2013
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As reported earlier this month, Exeter based CrowdCanDo – a crowdfunding platform for events of all types – is crowdfunding on Seedrs. The raise was for 10%...
September 17, 2013
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Paul Fulton could have easily turned to his Silicon Valley connections to help bankroll a new product from his startup Cloudsona, which makes and sells wireless wristbands that...
September 12, 2013
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With a click of a mouse, almost anyone can give money today to a Cincinnati business that’s building a new keypad for smart phones, or...