Kiva Touches One Million Lives Around the World With Crowdfunded Loans

March 18, 2013 @ 5:15 am By CFI Correspondent |

Kiva, a crowdfunding platform for social good, announced today that it has reached over 1 million people in more than 65 countries through $400 million in microloans. This is a tremendous milestone for the nonprofit organization, which was founded in 2005 to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty and expand economic opportunity. “This has… Read More

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Madness of Crowdfunding: Why Kickstarter Matters?

March 18, 2013 @ 5:04 am By Technology Personalized |

What are the key ingredients for making a chartbuster game? Perfect coding, impressive plot, alluring soundtrack, awe-inspiring animation, what else? Yes, money. Not just games, but you need money, a sumptuous amount of it, to produce anything – be it a movie, a hand-watch, an album, or any random project. But, awesome as your ideas… Read More

Crowdfunding: iPhoneChina – a film project on Apple and China

March 18, 2013 @ 3:28 am By iRights |

(Staff Translation) The film producer Christian von Borries asks the systemic question: „Imagine Apple would be a State – would one prefer to live in Apple or China?“. In a documentary essay film he researches the question whether States are led like businesses or whether business are led like States. The raw aterial was filmed… Read More

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Ontario Securities Commission may allow crowdfunding for some businesses

March 18, 2013 @ 2:10 am By CP24 |

Social media wants to meet up with corporate finance on the Internet to let startup and small businesses raise money online. It’s called equity crowdfunding — different from Kickstarter which funds creative projects like movies, games or music and — because it would give these online investors shares in a company. CEO and president Chad… Read More

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Investment Crowdfunding is A Ghetto Stock Market

March 18, 2013 @ 1:00 am By Forbes |

It’s insane that the world is buying into the joke known as “Crowdfunding.” Everyone and their mother is predicting that it’s the next miracle in the making. But, let’s be honest with ourselves. Crowdfunding is neither new, nor innovative. Most importantly, it doesn’t make sense. There are two main types of crowdfunding sites on the internet these days… Read More

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Skullgirls dev may license engine to Fighting is Magic team for free

March 17, 2013 @ 12:15 pm By Joystiq |

Skullgirls developer Lab Zero Games announced plans to provide former MLP: Fighting is Magic developer Mane6 with a free license of its Skullgirls engine should Lab Zero Games’ Indiegogo campaign reach $725,000. Lab Zero Games launched its crowdfunding campaign in late February to fund new characters for Skullgirls with an initial $150,000 goal that it… Read More

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New crowdfunding platform for films and creative arts

March 17, 2013 @ 10:51 am By Business Standard |

Fund management company Starting Blocks Media Ventures will launch a new crowd funding model, Catapooolt, dedicated to creative projects including movies, music and other performing arts. Catapooolt will be launched during the Hong Kong Asia Film Festival later this month. The company has join hands with the event as the official Crowdfunding Partner for Hong… Read More

Is Equity Crowdfunding A Threat To Venture Capitalists?

March 17, 2013 @ 8:38 am By TechCrunch |

It’s fun to ponder the awesome disruptive power that equity crowdfunding might have over the venture capital industry. The very people who spend their days plotting the disruption of any industry touched by technology are themselves displaced by hordes of technology-enabled angel investors. How ironic. VCs are even playing along. Take FirstMark Capital Managing Director… Read More

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Getting Schooled About Crowdfunding

March 17, 2013 @ 7:12 am By Wired |

Raising money is hard. Despite the proliferation of fundraising websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the truth of the matter is that this newfangled crowdfunding still works best when you bring your own crowd. Just witness the Veronica Mars Movie Project, which hit its $2 million funding goal within 10 hours of launch. How? Well, this was… Read More

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Kickstarter Founder Yancey Strickler at Engadget Expand in San Francisco (Video)

Yancey Strickler Co Founder of Kickstarter at Engadget Expand

March 16, 2013 @ 6:43 pm By CFI Correspondent |

Top tech site Engadget is holding their Expand event in San Francisco March 16th and 17th. This is their first go at doing this sort of thing but is definitely a must watch for all lovers of tech. Engadget will offer live panel and one-on-one sessions with many of the technorati types changing the world… Read More

Kickstarter Co-Founder Talks Up Veronica Mars, Crowdfunding

March 16, 2013 @ 3:55 pm By PCMag |

The stampede to fund aVeronica Mars movie is “sort of like a perfect storm,” according to Kickstarter co-founder and head of communications Yancey Strickler. Kicking off Engadget Expand here on Saturday, Strickler acknowledged that the Veronica Mars movie is the latest sensation to take Kickstarter by storm, following on the heels of crowd-funded projects like the Pebble smartwatch and the Ouya game… Read More

President Bill Clinton Helps Launch Kiva City Little Rock

March 16, 2013 @ 2:06 pm By CFI Correspondent |

President Bill Clinton helped announce the launch of Kiva City Little Rock, an initiative that expands the availability of crowdfunded microloans for small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs in the Little Rock area. The program reaches underserved borrowers by crowdfunding loans, connecting current and future small business owners to a global online community where anyone… Read More

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Crowdfunding Initiative to Increase Access to Palliative Care in Uganda

March 16, 2013 @ 10:51 am By CFI Correspondent |

The Hospice Foundation is working with FHSSA (formerly Foundation for Hospices in Sub-Saharan Africa) to raise money for this initiative through a crowdfunding platform powered by Launcht, a white label crowdfunding application. The Hospice Foundation has set a goal of raising $4,000 in 60 days, which will fund the training, travel, room and board for… Read More

Did Veronica Mars Ruin Kickstarter?

March 16, 2013 @ 3:51 am By Slate |

It took three days for Veronica Mars to change the way movies are made. Or maybe it didn’t. As the Kickstarter for the Veronica Mars Movie Project sailed past its $2 million goal in a scant 10 hours—as I write, the budget is at $3.3 million and counting—bereft fans of Terriers, Chuck,Pushing Daisies, and, for all anyone knows, Twin Peaks, EZ Streets and Mama’s Family, started dreaming… Read More

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California Department Of Corporations Issues Crowdfunding Update

March 15, 2013 @ 5:16 pm By Charles Luzar |

The California Department of Corporations recently released this crowdfunding update to help educate the public regarding crowdfunding’s progress and current legality. Document is below…

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