(CNN) — Things are looking up for entrepreneurs in the Middle East as a new breed of crowdfunding is emerging to help bring life to innovative ideas from the region Based on popular U.S. sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo they aim to connect everyone, from engineers in...
Continue ReadingIt could fund your project, boost our companies, create jobs and maybe even save our entire economy: crowdfunding. Advertised as the go-to digital cash machine if the bank doesn’t get you the money you need, crowdfunding is well on its way to become a major...
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Alternative funders such as Funding Circle and Market Invoice offer great funding opportunities for SMEs says Will King, founder of King of Shaves. The problem is no-one has heard of them. Will King, founder of shaving products business King of Shaves, warns that large numbers of...
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Editor’s Note: This guest post is written by Janky Patel, an author who just wrapped up a successful Kickstarter campaign for her children’s book. It appears exclusively on Crowdsourcing.org. In 2012, former advertising copywriter Jack Cheng had the chance to publish his first novel through Kickstarter, the web’s largest...
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What is the role of curation in crowdfunding marketplaces? Each platform is approaching curation differently. Some are more “open”—accepting a higher percentage of applications onto the platform—while others will be more “closed”, accepting a lower percentage. Neither end of the spectrum is necessarily better or worse;...
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Our neighbors to the North while much smaller in population have already established a vibrant crowdfunding scene. With over 45% of the entire Canadian workforce employed in small business driving 28% of Canada’s GDP, it is clear that the importance of fostering a positive environment...
Continue ReadingApprentice runner-up Luisa Zissman may have failed to persuade Lord Alan Sugar that her baking brand was a winning idea after losing to Leah Totton in the 2013 final - but she had no trouble convincing online investors that Baker's Toolkit is worthy of investment. After...
Continue ReadingCrowdfunding hits another milestone as Crowdcube raises £10m It’s been hailed as a potential lifeline for many startups struggling to find finance from traditional bank loans, and now it seems crowdfunding is coming of age. Crowdcube, an equity based platform has announced today they’ve become the...
Continue ReadingMassolution, the leading research and advisory firm for crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, today announced its inaugural crowdsourcing conference, Massolution NYC 2013: Crowd Powered Business. On September 19 at the W Hotel in midtown Manhattan, senior executives from Fortune 1000 enterprises, government agencies, and leading crowdsourcing platforms will gather...
Continue ReadingNoFlo, a company that has built an open-source visual programming tool based on “flow-based programming,” a concept that came out of IBM in the 1970s, is launching a $100,000 Kickstarter campaign today to help build a mainstream version of its development environment and add new programming languages. At...
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