By the numbers, about $11,000 stands between Josh Mills and wife Muir Hughes’ dream of owning The Bookstore, but the crowdfunding effort has become a community embrace more significant than money. In December, Mills penned a contract with previous owner Ron Barrett to buy the store at 118 Main St. after a retirement sale was… Read More
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No bank or record label helped singer-songwriter Wesley Cook fund his third studio album, but a Chuck Norris meme – and the generosity of 171 fans – did. Angel Poventud used his connections as a community activist and a slick video on a crowdsourced funding website to help bridge a gap in financing for a… Read More
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In April, President Barack Obama signed the bipartisan Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act into law. The entrepreneurial community cheered, saying the law would help small businesses raise money during their most vulnerable periods, when companies try to move from early to late stage. “The thing that kills startups is not having enough initial investments,” said Dickinson law… Read More
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With the soaring costs of health care, some Americans are turning to online crowdfunding websites to raise money to pay for the care they need. One woman who started her digital campaign on Wednesday has already raised $25,000. Ariella Barker told HuffPost Live’s Alyona Minkovski that she has racked up thousands of dollars in medical bills trying to fight… Read More
The Safari Surf School located in Nosara, Costa Rica has launched a crowdfunding campaign for their ongoing pursuit of becoming carbon neutral. Crowdfunding on Indiegogo their goal is to raise only $5000.00 to accomplish their objectives. As of this writing they were well on their at over $3000.00 raised with 12 days left to go. The… Read More
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Announced on Friday on the Kickstarter blog, the crowdfunding site continues to evolve by incorporating hashtags into the Kickstarter campaigns to aid with project discovery. As participation Kickstarter grows and the number of projects being funded by their crowdfunding site the team has noticed some trends which they believe they can leverage going forward. A… Read More
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The crowdfunded watch Pebble is finally making it into the hands of reviewers. Covered extensively in the popular media the Pebble watch has come to represent for many the potential of crowdfunding. Below is an excerpt for popular tech blog Engadget. We’ve really enjoyed our time with Pebble so far — it’s not a fashion… Read More
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Arbor Avenue Films announced today, in partnership with Never the Luck Productions, a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to support their latest project, Star and the Snowman. The film is the story of two people searching for “normal” in a world of death, betrayal and revenge. Filmmakers are seeking $8,000 in crowdfunding to shoot the film’s winter… Read More
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Last week, influential crowdfunding advocates pleaded with interim Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Elisse Walter to move a set of rules for legislating last year’s Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act into the required 90-day comment period. They feared that the appointment of a new head would further delay the long-awaited legislation that many startups are banking on to launch their businesses…. Read More
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Gabe Sowder’s first year as chef and owner of Taco Punk was rough. But Sowder has hope — and thousands of dollars worth of faith in the customers who have kept Taco Punk afloat. Sowder launched a Kickstarter campaign Wednesday to raise $20,000 by Feb. 22 for his Mexican fast-casual restaurant on East Market Street in the… Read More
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When Wellingtonian Anna Guenther needed a thesis topic for her masters degree, she chose the new phenomenon of crowd funding. It was a good idea for a business, so she went ahead and started it. Last year, her website raised more than $750,000 for 175 projects. It is called PledgeMe and some are saying it… Read More
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The closely watched startup program Y Combinator said today it was backing peer-to-peer medical funding site Watsi, its first nonprofit investment after eight years and hundreds of startups. “I’ve never been so excited about anything we’ve funded,” Y Combinator chief Paul Graham wrote in a post about Watsi today. Watsi is a peer-to-peer platform that connects medical patients to donors… Read More
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Don’t hold your breath, but the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission could finalize regulations this year to implement the JOBS Act, the 2012 law that lets startups raise funds directly from mom-and-pop investors. Mosaic isn’t waiting. The two-year-old Oakland, Calif. firm already won approval in California and New York to allow individuals to invest directly via its website. The twist… Read More
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Crowdfunding site Razoo landed in San Francisco last year not to ask for money, but to give it. CEO Lesley Mansford says that’s just one way the social online fundraising company is unique. Founded in 2007 in Washington, D.C., Razoo is a Web platform that helps individuals, organizations, cities and states raise money using social… Read More
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The market for crowd funding is hot. Thanks in part to the JOBS Act; recent U.S. government legislation that allows for a wider pool of small investors with fewer restrictions combined with the success of companies like Kickstarter. A variety of industry specific crowd funding startups are emerging to take advantage of the opportunities for community organized… Read More
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