Crowdsourcing Week Set to Open in Singapore

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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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WATCH: The Zach Braff Bashing Leaks Onto Funny Or Die, Indiegogo

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The purveyors of the ScreenJunkies YouTube channel have launched a campaign on Indiegogo to crowdfund a full-page advertisement aimed at telling celebrities like Zach Braff to keep their “vanity projects” off of crowdfunding web sites like Kickstarter. From the campaign page… Our “Don’t Back Zach” campaign was launched in response to the new wave of… Read More

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The Business of Latino Small Business and Crowdfunding

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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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Crowdfunding Platforms on CNBC’s List of Disruptors

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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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Ten Ways To Avoid Getting Sued Over Your Next Kickstarter

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With the success of the Veronica Mars and Garden State-sequel Kickstarter campaigns, it appears that the crowdfunding business model has made its way to mainstream Hollywood. While crowdfunding certainly has advantages, including giving filmmakers more creative control over their projects, this business model is open to potential claims of fraud, misappropriation, conversion and embezzlement, which lead to the risk… Read More

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South Korea Aims To Legalize Equity Crowdfunding

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CRIEnglish.com reported yesterday that South Korea is looking to legalize equity crowdfunding, seemingly spurred on by the United States’s passage of the JOBS Act. From the article… South Korea planned to legalize the crowd funding system as part of efforts to help venture companies finance their seed money from a number of small investors with… Read More

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NPR / American Life Crowdfund Over $590,000 on Kickstarter for Planet Money

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Planet Money, a joint project of NPR and This American Life, has trail-blazed a new path for NPR.  They have crowdfunded themselves on Kickstarter.  The initial campaign commenced on April 30th and ended on May 15th.  The goal was an admirable $50,000 target.  The finally tally far exceeded that – amounting to $590,807.00.  Over 20,000… Read More

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Chris Corner Got Way, Way More Crowd-Funding Money Than He Sought

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For years, Berlin-based singer/multi-instrumentalist Chris Corner has been working alone. Originally from the U.K. and having first came to prominence in the 1990s as part of the electronic group Sneaker Pimps, he has self-produced his last four albums as IAMX. Sometimes, he even directed his own videos. For IAMX’s fifth album, The Unified Field, however, Corner enlisted… Read More

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Why Melissa Joan Hart’s Kickstarter Project Failed

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It’s finally happened. Kickstarter users have said “No thanks!” to a celebrity’s film project. The crowdfunding campaign for the film Darci’s Walk of Shame, which had Melissa Joan Hart attached to it, was cancelled Monday after raising only $51,605 from 315 backers in a little over a month. The hope was to raise $2 million. For… Read More

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How to Fund a Startup (Video)

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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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Smithsonian Launches First Major Crowdfunding Campaign

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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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I-Bankers Direct Launches Equity Crowdfunding Platform

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I-Bankers Direct has announced the launch of a web-based crowdfunding platform designed to transform the process of investing in private and public growth-stage companies for accredited investors. The platform, ibankersdirect.com, allows individuals to invest as little as $5,000 directly in selected small-cap growth businesses, pairing accredited investors with a growing list of emerging companies with… Read More

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Crowdfunding Goes Mainstream: Why Donald Trump and Google Are Supporting Grassroots Financing

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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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