PayPal this week promised to review how it handles crowd-funding efforts after several projects had their funding frozen by the online payment service. In a blog post, PayPal said that crowd-funding campaigns - made popular in the past year or two by services like Kickstarter and Indiegogo...
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When Kelli Space graduated from Northeastern University in 2009 with $200,000 of student loan debt, she panicked. Given that she had an entry-level office manager job that didn’t pay much, Space knew that it was going to be tough to pay back that debt on her own. But...
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It’s one trend that’s been hard to miss, being mostly clipped and/or strapped in plain sight. To spell it out, hardware startups — and the devices they’re making — are having a moment, thanks in major part to crowdfunding websites providing the funding bridge between...
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In her book Cash From the Crowd, Sally Outlaw, founder and CEO of crowdfunding website peerbackers, reveals the secrets of funding your business with help from colleagues, peers, family, friends and even perfect strangers through a crowdfunding campaign. In this edited excerpt, the author provides information on...
Continue Readinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx8NQtREe_E&feature=share Streamed live on 16 Sep 2013 An event to mark the RSA's launch into the world of crowdfunding, when an expert panel gathers to consider the current and future challenges and opportunities for the sector. To find out more about the event, check out the information on the...
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Traditional scientific funding proposals typically do not ask donors to “crowdfund my meth lab, yo,” but then young scientist Ethan Perlstein isn’t taking the traditional route to underwrite his research. Like an increasing number of scientists who have seen public grants and investments shrivel, Mr. Perlstein has broken away from...
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Crowdfunding is enabling more aid organisations, charities and civic projects to bypass traditional fundraising techniques. In August, two Norwegian students raised $32,000 (£20,000) on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to fund life-saving surgery for Roona, an 18-month-old girl from Tripura, India. She had been diagnosed with hydrocephalus, a condition...
Continue ReadingCrowdfunding has been a godsend for getting lots of projects off the ground that otherwise may not have attracted dollars from traditional powers-that-be in retail manufacturing, music, movies, and the like. So at a time when the federal dollars that typically fund medical research are...
Continue ReadingWith the world on the computer screen, Jase Wilson can get philosophical about cities. Zooming in on Tokyo’s cityscape at night, brought to him courtesy of Google, Wilson says: “It’s like a circuit board. It’s beautiful.” Next to the sparkling grid of one of the world’s largest...
Continue ReadingOften times crowdfunding in the United States is discussed as a dichotomy. On one hand you have the brand of crowdfunding that takes place now, the donation- and rewards-based models that fuel sites like Kickstarter, Indiegogo and countless others. On the other hand you have lending- and equity-based...
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