July 23, 2013
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Crowdfunding Lesson From Habitat: Empower Your Volunteers
Dave McMurtry is a player in Silicon Valley. I mean that in the very best sense. He is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School...
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July 22, 2013
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Crowdfunding: Income or Gift? IRS Taxes and SEC Regulations Could Hurt Startups And Innovation On Kickstarter And Indiegogo
Say you’re raising money on Kickstarter for an independent film project: Are the proceeds a sort of communal gift-giving or simply a clever source of...
July 22, 2013
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SEC Finally Moves On Equity Crowdfunding, Phase 1
As the CEO of Crowdfunder and a participant in JOBS Act legislation, I’ve had unique access to people and parties involved the regulatory process, and...
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...
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...