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August 13, 2013

Equity Crowdfunding Is Set to Begin This Fall for Small Business Owners. Are You Ready to Snag $1 Million?

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra needs money to "Preserve The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Legacy," according to its Internet campaign on Kickstarter.com -- an online, donation crowdfunding portal. More specifically, ASO's said to prospective backers, "Your donation will enable the ASO Archives to purchase technology necessary to convert three videos of the...

August 12, 2013

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Crowdfunding hope for postgraduate support

StudentFunder aims to become ‘one-stop shop’ for those in need. A social enterprise start-up is hoping to help fill the gaps in support for postgraduate education in the UK. The London-based firm StudentFunder is an online “crowdfunding” platform designed to help students who fail to secure scholarships, family backing...

August 12, 2013

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Grand Designs presenter raises £1m via crowd-funding for his house building firm

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 was raised via CrowdCube, which uses the internet to attract private investors to projects and firms. More than 300 individuals invested in...

August 12, 2013

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How crowdfunding offers the fast route to decentralised energy

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 trillion dollars of investment in 17 years? That’s what the International Energy Agency says is needed to achieve the UN’s goal of universal energy...

August 12, 2013

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Will crowdfunding for real estate boom in Singapore and nearby regions?

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 business community with the success of online crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Razoo. Some of the early adopters and...

August 12, 2013

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Self-Reliance is the Key to Eliminating Poverty

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 down the hill people struggled to put food on the table. The contrast bothered me. As I grew older and...

August 12, 2013

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For bookstores, crowdfunding to the rescue

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, hosting members-only lunches with authors, and selling birthday cards, toys, and trinkets. In 2013, it has come to this: asking their...

August 9, 2013

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How Skoll Awardees are Using Crowdfunding for Fundraising Success

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. In June, Landesa launched its first crowd-funding effort with Catapult.org. In this pilot effort, they featured their legal aid project in Andra Pradesh, with...

August 9, 2013

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Beyond the Kickstarter model for science crowdfunding

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" and a new market or audience "Y". It's very convenient, while have to be extremely careful not to be sucked...

August 9, 2013

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Peer to Peer Crowdfunding Continues to Grow

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. Till now it has accepted only limited companies but this week will see the arrival of non limited companies, some...

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