Only the very beginning .. Seedrs plans for growth rate to accelerate significantly over the next few years. Seedrs is one of the leading equity crowdfunding platforms in the United Kingdom. They recently celebrated their first active year of equity crowdfunding having raised £1.4 Million for 27 crowdfunded campaigns...
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It is official -- on July 10th, 2013 the Security and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.) lifted the ban for private offering advertising. This means that once the rule goes into effect (60 days after publication in the Federal Register -- so we are talking about mid September),...
Continue ReadingUniversal Music will use a new crowdfunding website to work out which "rare and deleted" albums it ought to reissue on vinyl. According to online magazine Fact, the Vinyl Project will allow fans to register their interest in the re-release of certain LPs, with Sonic Youth's Goo, Björk's Biophilia, Pulp's...
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(MoneyWatch) Remember the JOBS Act? The 2012 law touted by President Barack Obama as a "game-changer" was going to free entrepreneurs to tap into oceans of online funding from small investors, spurring the creation of businesses and jobs. Don't hold your breath. Although the Securities and...
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As crowdfunding becomes more mainstream, more entrepreneurs see it as an alternative to bank loans. Banks are none too pleased. In 2012, crowdfunding portals helped small business owners and individuals raise about $2.7 billion. By the end of this year, that figure could nearly double, according to Massolution, which tracks...
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A couple of weeks ago, Google made headlines with the $1bn (£662m) acquisition of Waze, a crowd-sourced traffic app which uses data from its users to transmit real-time information about roads and traffic. Google paid $1bn (£662m) for Waze, a crowd-sourced traffic app. Photo: AFP Waze has around...
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Jason Graf co-founded crowdfunding platform CrowdIt with Paul Freeman and Markus Pope. Crowdfunding platforms are great places to collect capital for startups or small businesses or projects, but what else could they do? That’s the question a Springfield, Missouri-based platform called CrowdIt is asking. The company, which...
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Latin America, a rapidly-developing region with a (mostly) common language and an affinity for social media, presents a great opportunity for crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. Recently, we learned of an equity crowdfunding campaign that took place in Chile; it is, to our knowledge, the first successful equity raise in...
Continue ReadingAndrew Levin owes the bank $26,000 in student loans, and he'd like you to help him pay it off. Should you be inclined to reduce his bill, Levin, an Oakland musician and graduate of the University of Southern California, would be pleased to teach you to...
Continue ReadingWhen the president signed the JOBS Act into law a year and a half ago, believers like me rejoiced. This legislation includes an exciting crowdfunding exemption that will fundamentally disrupt how start-ups and small businesses raise capital in the United States. What will change exactly? It will no...
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