Kickstarter gets $3.3M in pledges in first month in UK

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After making its first international leap to the U.K. on Oct. 31, Kickstarter has raised $3.3 million in pledges for U.K.-based projects. New York City-based Kickstarter said 407 projects were launched in the first month, with 30 successfully funded so far. The first successfully funded project was The Chime Pavilion, a student effort from The Manchester School of Architecture that has raised… Read More

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A toast to crowd funding

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Entrepreneurs and would-be start-ups have embraced crowd funding for the access to seed capital, potential customers and market feedback that the model provides. But some start-ups are bypassing the established channels and using their own version of crowd funding to directly control interaction with target markets. Crowd-funding websites like Kickstarter, Pozible and Indiegogo introduce product… Read More

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Singapore’s Cliquefund Takes a Different Approach to Crowdfunding

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Social Innovations Camp Asia, which was help in Kuala Lumpur last month. The event centered around developing a number of worthwhile social initiatives, including Blood Donors Network and sex-ed application ThatApp. And while it’s great to see events like SI Camp get behind this sort of innovation, social initiatives don’t always have such support. But… Read More

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The Internet: Revolution for Inventors and Entrepreneurs?

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The most recent season of Dragons’ Den in the UK has come to a close this week and it has been another rollercoaster ride with some surprising investments, and some interesting rejections. Whilst the figures and the forecasts often come under intense scrutiny, what we don’t find out is how the entrepreneur got to the… Read More

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Crowdfunding’s Perils, and how to avoid them

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Everyone has an opinion on the crowdfunding industry these days: it’s the new thing; it’s over; it’s just getting started, it’s overheated; it’s the future of finance, it’s fundamentally flawed. The truth is that when it comes to investing in businesses and startups, the critics are partly right: there may be some significant risks for… Read More

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Arts top in Russian crowdfunding

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Crowdfunding – collecting money online for artistic, business, social or charitable projects – is becoming more popular in Russia. The examples of the anti-corruption website RosPil and the Internet publication Colta.ru are inspiring budding businessmen and civil activists to search for supporters on the Net. The name makes the project Creative projects are the permanent… Read More

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For chip maker, ‘crowdfunding’ computes

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The conventional approach in the computer business is to make the machines first, then sell them. But a Lexington start-up, Adapteva , has rung up nearly $900,000 in sales of a computer it hasn’t yet made. “We have a market. We have a customer base and everything else,” said founder and chief executive Andreas Olofsson…. Read More

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Region’s crowdfunding platform launched

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Using the equity crowdfunding concept, a duo of ex-investment bankers and entrepreneurs, Christopher Thomas and Sam Quawasmi, founded this year an online marketplace called Eureeca.com, where Middle East businesses can source capital from the general public. Eureeca is encouraging everyone to invest as little as $100 in a business and earn equity in return. Since… Read More

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Crowdfunding suitable for novice investors?

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With returns on retail deposits, stocks and other investments still negligible, small investors who just have a bit of spare cash are finding it difficult to find a decent place to park their money. However, a new investment alternative is slowly catching on. Using the power of crowds, individuals don’t need to be multi-millionaires to… Read More

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Article in WSJ Indicates Schapiro Delayed Ruling on General Solicitation

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As reported in WSJ.com  (subscription required), emails reviewed by the Wall Street Journal indicate the outgoing SEC Chair held up ruling on General Solicitation after last minute lobbying by a “consumer lobbyist”.  This caused Schapiro to change her mind regarding one of the centerpiece items of the Jobs Act. Supporters of this portion of the Jobs… Read More

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Victims of fire pay it forward with new crowdfunding website

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CARROLLWOOD — Brittany Compton was breastfeeding her son late at night when she smelled smoke. Ashes from the fireplace, though dumped in a container and doused with water, had reignited. Flames quickly filled her family’s house. Compton, her children, husband and brother got out safely the night of Dec. 19, 2011. But the couple lost… Read More

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Fidor Bank in Germany Offers Crowdfunding Directly to Their Customers

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With Crowdfunding still in the throes of regulatory purgatory within the United States it was quite interesting to read this recent interview on the German Crowdfunding blog Crowdstreet.  Klaus Martin Meyer interviewed the CEO of Fidor Bank AG – Matthias Kröner.  Fidor Bank is a licensed, internet bank based in Germany which is geared towards “Social… Read More

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7 crowdfunding sites to finance all of your projects in France

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(Staff Translation) Crowdfunding, tuns out to be a surprisingly powerful tool to finance all of your projects. Here is how it works : Present your project to the public on a specific website and be convincing enough so that the cumulative power of many small or large donations allows tofinance the project.  This is the private sponsorship… Read More

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CommunityLeader Announces the Launch of its Program for Crowdfunding Professionals

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In conjunction with the launch of its ABC, CommunityLeader will host a new Web Bites series on its Affiliate Program for Crowdfunding Professionals Joseph Barisonzi, CEO of CommunityLeader, Inc., announced today the launch of ABC—its Affiliate Business Center—for its growing network of national marketing and business partners. “Our Affiliate Program allows everyone the opportunity to… Read More

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Disappear into the game

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Strap on the headset and adjust the goggle to your eyes. Look down and you’ll see the floor of a space station. Look up and pipes weave above your head. Turn left or right and the tight walls of a dark corridor flank your sides. An alien bursts through a door. Look at the monster,… Read More

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