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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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When IRobot (IRBT) first sent Scott Miller to Asia a decade ago to help oversee manufacturing of the Roomba, its robotic vacuum cleaner, he saw it as a business trip. He wound up spending the next four years in Hong Kong and mainland China, unraveling the intricacies of...
Continue ReadingLondon-based Abundance Generation, an FCA-regulated democratic finance crowdfunding platform, has funded its latest two projects in a crowd-funded £700,000 raise over the past 35 days. The two projects, called Brighter Schools and Oakapple One, will see solar panels installed on schools and new build housing. With 20...
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