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Gas Powered Games’ chief Chris Taylor struggles to stay positive after crowdfunding failure

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HAMBURG, Germany — Chris Taylor realizes just how hard it is to raise money now, especially on fickle consumer-driven crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter. The chief executive of struggling Gas Powered Games pulled down his Kickstarter campaign today for his Wildman game as it was failing to get a critical mass of support. Speaking at the Casual Connect Europe event in Hamburg,… Read More

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Germany: Crowdfunding Helps Start-Ups

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(Staff Translation) Crowdfunding can be an alternative to classic financing means for entrepreneurs   To date this form of financing has been deployed mostly to collect smaller sums for social projects.  Roughly 6.6 million Germans have already made online donations for social causes. That corresponds o 12% of all Internet users, according to a representative… Read More

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Crowdfunding Launched for: “Die WG” (German sitcom)

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(Staff Translation) This Monday, a crowdfunding campaign was launched for “ Die WG” (German for “Wohngemeinschaft” : Flat Share), a comedy sitcom, praised by many producers and editors but viewed as “ too young” for German television. That is why the small team comprised of the inventor and author Patrick Maak decided to finance the… Read More

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Pass the Hat, Save the Arts?

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PARIS — In the early rush to turn crowd-funding online into a new source of public revenue to buy everything from medieval ivory statues in France to a gallery for dinosaur bones in Canada there’s a cautionary tale: It doesn’t always work. The Louvre is nearing the end of what appears to be its third… Read More

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Crowdfunding a popular financing mechanism for start-ups

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(Staff Translation) Berlin. Online donations for the ideas and projects of others. Crowdfunding allows start-ups to present their projects and to obtain financing from crowdfunding platform users. To this date, almost 7 million Germans have donated online for a variety of projects. About 6.6 million Germans have supported social projects through the internet. This amounts to… Read More

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Over 6 Million Germans Support Social Projects Online

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From Telecompaper, Around 6.6 million Germans have supported social projects online, equal to 1 in 8 (12%) of all internet users in Germany, according to a survey by Aris for ICT industry group Bitkom. A further 22 percent are prepared to give money online for good causes. Of these, 45 percent are prepared to donate… Read More

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The 1st Follow-up Financing on Seedmatch (Germany)

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(Staff Translation) The Crowdfunding portal Seedmatch (www.seedmatch.de) is making further innovations: Going forward, start ups are able to launch follow-up financing campaigns via Crowdfunding. The Freiburg based start up Leaserad is the first enterprise seeking Seedmatch’s assistance for the 2nd time in a row. It already collected 100.000 Euros via Seedmatch in August 2012. (Original Text) Erste Anschlussfinanzierung auf… Read More

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Unusual Crowdfunding for an Art studio-House (Germany)

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(Staff Translation) In Alt-Sachsenhausen, a 1.3 Million Euro Art Studio-House is being financed thanks to Crowdfunding. For the real estate branch, this concept is unique on a national level. “The first ones to conquer a location are the Creatives”, says Steen Rothenberger. The entrepreneur owns the Lindenberg-Hotel in Ostend  and the Restaurant Seven Swans near… Read More

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German funds back new projects by Akin, Aladag and Verhoeven

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Christmas has come early this year for Germany’s producers as national and regional funds paid out a total of more than €12m production support to such filmmakers as Fatih Akin, Feo Aladag, Rosa von Praunheim and Simon Verhoeven in their last funding sessions for 2012.   The third part of Fatih Akin’s Love, Death and… Read More

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Krautreporter: Crowdfunding Platform for Journalism

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Staff Translation Krautreporter: Crowdfunding-Plattform for journalism By Leonhard Dobusch The journalists Sebastian Esser and Wendelin Hübner have launched today a beta version of the project “Krautreporter”. The goal of the platform is to establish Crowdfunding for journalism in German speaking countries. A nice video is available at the start of the project in which Felicia Mutterer explains the concept of… Read More

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German ‘The Office’ Gets $1.3 Million for Film Version

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COLOGNE, Germany – The German version of BBC’s cringe comedy The Office will go where Ricky Gervais‘ clueless manager David Brent could never have imagined: onto the big screen. A feature film take on Stromberg, the German version of the fly-on-the-wall office sitcom created by Gervais and Stephen Merchant, has picked up $1.3 million (€1.02… Read More

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Indiegogo Expands Internationally with Crowdfunding in UK, Germany, France & Canada

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World’s Largest Crowdfunding Platform Launches New Currencies, Languages & Localized Experiences SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Indiegogo, the largest global crowdfunding platform, announces new offerings in key global markets — including local currencies, languages and localized search and discovery experiences. Some of these new capabilities launch immediately in the UK, Germany, France… Read More

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Crowdfunding Platform Indiegogo Launches Local Sites And Currencies For UK, Germany, France And Canada

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Back in October crowdfunding site Kickstartermade an international move by launching in the UK and allowed the ability to enter payment info directly on Kickstarter in pounds sterling, rather than via Amazon Payments. They also hinted at other countres for expansion. However, Indiegogo, the large, more general crowdfunding platform, is going one better by launching in the… 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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