August 12, 2013
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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...
August 12, 2013
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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...
August 12, 2013
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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,...
August 9, 2013
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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....
August 9, 2013
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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"...
August 9, 2013
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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....
August 9, 2013
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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...
August 8, 2013
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London-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...
August 8, 2013
News By UKCFA
If you decide you want to invest your money in social enterprise, how are you going about it? The truth is you would find it...