Kristin Voinovich

Fundraising for Charity Using Crowdfunding

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It used to be that most organizations fundraising for charity had to do so the old fashioned way, whether that be by direct (snail) mail, specific events, or in person solicitations.  These were all methods which could be very successful, but these methods were also exceptionally inefficient and very time consuming. In the age of web 3.0… Read More

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Investment Banks: Gatekeepers No More

United States Treasury (Wikipedia)

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Investment Bankers have traditionally been the gatekeepers of access to the capital markets.  It is time for Crowdfunding to play a greater role. The caliber of underwriting firm is often an indication of the quality of the issuing company. The investment banks are paid well for that implicit endorsement, but that puts their reputations on… Read More

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Intellipaper Turns Crowdfunding Failure Into Product Success

Intellipaper Disposable USB card

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  Interesting crowdfunding story  from SmartPlanet pertaining to Intellipaper.  This was a  project which was crowdfunded on Indiegogo and widely covered in the media. What’s Intellipaper?  Well it is a disposable USB drive made partially out of paper.  Holding 8 to 32MB of data you just pull one off a sheet a paper, fold it… Read More

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Crowdfunding is for small investors; VC is for the rich

Eureeca

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Equity crowdfunding and venture capital can be similar in that both provide money to help a business get off the ground and investors earn equity in return. However, one of the differences is that while crowdfunding accepts small sums from many individuals, venture capital (VC) involves larger funds from wealthy investors who are looking for… Read More

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2012 Year in Review: Crowdfunding in the Mainstream, Good or Bad News for Designers?

The Floating Mug by Tigere Chiriga

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It seems like every day the editors at Core77 receive at least a dozen pleas from designers who have elected to get on the hamster wheel of crowdfunding. In fact, it’s become so ubiquitous, we’ve dedicated a whole category to kickstarting designs. Undoubtedly, 2012 is the year that crowdfunding went mainstream, but now that it’s firmly… Read More

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Insert Coin: 2012′s top 10 crowdfunded projects

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This trip around the sun has been a monumental one for crowdfunding, marked by big projects and astronomical numbers. Take Kickstarter wunderkind OUYA, for example, which raised more than $8.5 million in funding from 63,416 backers. Kickstarter itself has even grown and matured, expanding to the UK and putting its foot down when it comes to pitching hardware by… Read More

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Crowdfunding and 506 Private Placements

$1000 in $100 Bills

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I read an exceptional article back in November written by Daniel Gorfine and Ben Miller.  Daniel is Director of Special Projects & Legal Counsel for the esteemed Milken Institute and Ben is Co-Founder of Fundrise – a direct investment platform for local real estate and businesses.  Their article was pertaining to the possibility of the… Read More

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The Year in Kickstarter

Team Kickstarter Always Changing

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I was just reviewing the Kickstarter numbers which they put together in an excellent section of their site called, appropriately, Kickstarter Stats.  These are some pretty impressive crowdfunding numbers.  I was curious as to how they have done in years prior so I looked at their 2010 and 2011 totals.   The Year In Kickstarter… Read More

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Toronto cartoonist breaks Kickstarter record with choose-your-own adventure Hamlet

To Be Or Not To Be Kickstarter

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t was an unholy pairing of two completely different genres: Shakespeare and the choose-your-own-adventure book. So when Toronto-based cartoonist Ryan North pitched the idea of a choose-your-own-adventure comics version of Hamlet, he wasn’t sure if the idea would gain any traction. He then turned to the crowd funding website Kickstarter to see if he could… Read More

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Christopher Manzo: 3 lessons learned in first Kickstarter campaign

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With 7 days to go in his first Kickstarter campaign, Christopher Manzo has raised about $11,000 of the $44,500 goal for kit, the ‘smartphone wallet.’ Manzo is the founder of Skipping Stone Technologies, the company behind kit. An architect and adjunct professor at Washington University, he is also one of seven finalists in the university’s Olin Cup business plan competition,… Read More

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The Rise of Non Bank Financing Can Fill Demand Need

Senator Glass and Representative Steagall (Wikipedia)

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Regulations and banking go hand in hand.  The need to regulate and save the unwitting from scurrilous businesses or poor operating approaches has always been the charter of most governments.  In a time of uncertainty there is a tendency for regulations to be more overbearing instead of less constrictive.  The most glaring example is of… Read More

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