July 22, 2013
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The hardware revolution will be crowdfunded
Just a quick look at any of the crowdfunding platforms shows that the concept of funding projects via the web is impacting a huge...
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July 19, 2013
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Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
When Congress passed President Obama's JOBS Act in March 2012, one of the most intriguing provisions would enable crowdfunding—the ability for large groups of anonymous...
July 19, 2013
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Crowdfunding Nuts And Bolts: Tackling Fulfilment
One of the biggest challenges for very successful crowdfunded projects, as I mentioned in my last piece on crowdfunding, is how to deal with sending out...
July 18, 2013
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Equity Crowdfunding Platform Seedrs Has Incredible Year, Plans Expansion Outside United Kingdom
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...
July 17, 2013
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Equity Crowdfunding and Advertising
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...
July 16, 2013
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Universal launches vinyl crowdfunding site to reprint rare and deleted albums
Universal Music will use a new crowdfunding website to work out which "rare and deleted" albums it ought to reissue on vinyl. According to online...
July 15, 2013
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For crowdfunding, the revolution will be localized
(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...
July 15, 2013
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Why Your Bank Is Terrified of Crowdfunding
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...
July 15, 2013
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Crowd-funding: we really are all in this together
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...