September 20, 2013
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PayPal Pledges to Overhaul Approach to Crowdfunding
PayPal this week promised to review how it handles crowd-funding efforts after several projects had their funding frozen by the online payment service. In a blog...
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September 20, 2013
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NANA: A café for nanas, run by nanas, seeks crowd-funding
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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Crowdfunding: The New Way To Finance Your Personal Life
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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How Bluetooth LE And Crowdfunding Are Accelerating The Connected Hardware Boom
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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What You Need to Know About the New Equity-Crowdfunding Model
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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RSA: Crowdfunding – Where to, what's next and what are the limits?
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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Real estate has a place for crowdfunding
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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Crowdfunding Events Platform Fully Funded on Seedrs
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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How Established Businesses Can Benefit From Crowdfunding
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...