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Teen wins fellowship to build site, skip college

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ARMONK, N.Y. — The $100,000 Thiel Foundation fellowship James Schuler just won allows young entrepreneurs to drop out of college to pursue their business ideas — except he never got there in the first place. Before graduating from Byram Hills High School in Armonk, N.Y., last year, the 19-year-old co-founded a healthcare transaction smartphone application and website…. Read More

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Rally to Take Political Platform and Crowdfund

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Coming from the pages of Campaigns and Elections is a report regarding Rally.org and their initiative to migrate their political fund raising platform and migrate to a crowdfunding venture.  During the 2012 election cycle, the Rally application was utilized by the national campaigns for Mitt Romney as well as Elizabeth Warren – then a Senate… Read More

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Crowdfunding can change the investment status quo

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Martin Luther King Jr.  had a dream that his children would “one day live in a nation where they would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” While we’ve certainly made great strides towards racial and gender equality, an undeniable gap still remains. According to the… Read More

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Equity crowdfunding waits on the SEC

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Crowdfunding mechanisms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have revolutionized how artists and creative ventures raise money. By enabling users to pitch an idea online and then hype it relentlessly through social media, the average fundraiser can reach far beyond his personal network. Filmmakers, musicians and even technology companies have used crowdfunding to raise impressive sums, sometimes into six… Read More

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The Ultimate Crowdfunding Campaign: POTUS

Mitt Romney Loves his Followers

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Crowdfunding is really just another moniker for funding projects. Really. In the Internet era of Social klout and a mobile populace, technology is available to leverage social / mobile into funding for whatever the imagination can capture and sell to the virtual masses. Efficiencies have leveled the information playing field and now (or soon) everyone… Read More

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How Politics Influences Crowdfunding Behavior

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“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” — Abraham Lincoln Every four years, the country is split into Red States and Blue States, and a small handful of states become political battlegrounds collectively known as Swing States. Here at Indiegogo, we wanted to investigate these political divides in the context of crowdfunding. Specifically, what similarities… Read More

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Opinion: The Next Generation of Entrepreneurs Need Crowdfunding

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Since the early days of the first stock exchanges -  investors, governments and businesses have looked for ways to facilitate investment, mitigate risk and accommodate diversification. Early banks managing debts of local farmers were the first “brokers”.  ”Bourses” -informal gatherings of commodity traders – started the concept of exchanges which quickly blossomed around Flanders creating… Read More

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“When Crowdfunding reaches its limits Delays, technical failures and random reimbursements” / Quand le crowdfunding atteint ses limites *Délais, échecs techniques et remboursement aléatoire

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Par *Bastien Morel* , le vendredi 07 septembre 2012 à 15:57:25 *Le financement participatif a souvent attiré l’attention de notre rédaction. Livres, appareils de haute technologie, films, ce système a permis de mettre en contact des créateurs en manque d’investissement et des internautes conquis par leurs projets. Dans une application économique typique du 2.0, chacun… Read More

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