Out of a total $6.9 billion dollars invested across the nation during the first quarter of 2013, Georgia deals accounted for $322.4 million, catapulting the state to fourth place for venture capital funding last quarter. Georgia ranked behind only California, New York and Massachusetts. The numbers show a striking difference from Q1 2012, when venture… Read More
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Lona Nallengara has been named the SEC’s chief of staff today, leaving his previous post as the director of the agency’s Division of Corporate Finance. Nallengara took his lumps in a recent House Committee hearing over the SEC’s delay in implementation of the JOBS Act, and especially on the delay of Title II. Committee members… Read More
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NowStreet Media, producer of financial events that introduce rising asset classes to Wall Street, has unveiedl its “Capitalizing on Financial Innovation” webinar series, aimed at helping broker-dealers, investment bankers, financial advisors, issuers and investors of all sizes succeed in a financial industry that is in the midst of extraordinary change. “As the popularity for neoteric… Read More
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That’s right. Crowdfunding $660,000,000 on Indiegogo to purchase the Tribune Company which includes storied newspapers like the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. If nothing else, the effort is certainly a bold and audacious move on the part of the organizers as they attempt to “meet our lofty fundraising goal”. The campaign has been initiated by… Read More
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Crowdsourcing Week, a conference on everything Crowdsourcing - including crowdfunding. The event will bring together leaders and innovators from around the world to discuss the impact of the open internet and the “fundamental shift towards the new digital economy”. The conference opens on June 3rd in Singapore and runs through the week. Over 40 speakers are expected… Read More
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Access to capital is a barrier for many of today’s budding entrepreneurs. Sometimes all you need is a little love. And for Crowdismo, that takes the form of innovation funding via the crowd commonly known as crowdfunding. Powering projects across education, social impact, and entrepreneurship is a prime focus of ours. Let’s talk a little bit about… Read More
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All this week CNBC will be sharing their list of 50 disruptors. Crowdfunding platforms CircleUp, LendingClub and Kickstarter have made the list of a new companies which are shaking up their sector – financial services. LendingClub has recently hit front page headlines with the $125 Million investment for tech powerhouse Google. Kickstarter and CircleUp are… Read More
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This video is an excellent brief explanation of funding rounds for any budding entrepreneur or student of finance. This is courtesy of OnlineMBA.com. Whether you are an entrepreneur trying to get things moving with a startup company or just interested in learning more about business in general, OnlineMBA.com‘s video on How to Fund a Startup is… Read More
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“Yoga: The Art of Transformation,” will be on view at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery October 19th through Jan. 26, 2014. This is the world’s first exhibition about the discipline’s visual history and will reveal its fascinating meanings and histories over the past 2,000 years. To support the exhibition, the museum is launching the Smithsonian’s first… Read More
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A mélange of high-profile brands and personalities are trying to ride the coattails of the recent explosion in the popularity of crowdfunding. A few short years ago, crowdfunding, or raising large sums of money by soliciting many small donations, was an off-the-beaten-path grassroots movement largely relegated to artists. Not anymore. Crowdfunding has captured the attention of cable TV… Read More
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Coming off a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund its Dispatch broadband aggregation software, Connectify is returning to the crowd-funding site for the next iteration of its product. This time around, the Philadelphia startup is developing a cloud-based packet parsing and channel bonding service called Switchboard designed to speed up video and other high-bandwidth content to your Mac… Read More
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Arizona Attorney Jonathan Frutkin has recently published a new book about this new source of finance, known as “equity crowdfunding”. According to Frutkin, the same power of online funding will soon let local companies raise capital online – and more importantly, make customers into owners, increasing the market share of businesses that successfully leverage this new… Read More
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Memo to all those who think the crowd isn’t sophisticated enough to make startup investments: Crowdfunding isn’t all that different from raising money from venture capitalists, a new study shows. A study by Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, brought to my attention by a post on Point of Law this morning, shows that people investing in… Read More
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Despite the economy avoiding a triple dip recession many leading entrepreneurs remain concerned about long-term growth prospects, according to the latest Smith & Williamson Enterprise Index. There was a marginal drop in the headline figure, although there were signs of positivity elsewhere. The inaugural Index, carried out in January of this year, recorded a positive… Read More
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We decided to launch our first-ever Kickstarter campaign to supplement our meager budget — to build the platforms, to rent and build some costume pieces (indeed, I spent last night sewing, as did the actress who’s playing Emily), to help pay for postage to mail out invitations to the civilian performance, to print programs, to… Read More
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