February 26, 2013 @ 8:33 am By CFI Correspondent  |  

Coming from the consulting group Deloitte Touche are their Tcchnology Media and Telecommunications (TMT) predictions for 2013. Crowdfunding and the revolutionary potential of this new industry is a focus of part of Deloitte’s prognostications. There was a previously released version of this report earlier this year. This annual report incorporates prognastication on the ever changing… Read More

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January 22, 2013 @ 4:18 pm By CFI Correspondent  |  

Coming as probably no surprise to a reader of these pages, CFO.com lists crowdfunding as a top finance trend for 2013: Tight credit at banks will trigger increased use of alternative sources of funding. With regulations like Basel II hamstringing bank lending, private capital providers alternative sources of lending—crowdfunding, especially—will be supplying scads of credit to small… Read More

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January 12, 2013 @ 3:12 pm By POPSci  |  

Crowdfunding models like Kickstarter took off in 2012–now we’ll wait and see how transformative those models are. On April 5, 2012, President Barack Obama sat at a small, wooden desk in the White House Rose Garden and signed the JOBS Act, one of the most transformative pieces of securities legislation written since the Great Depression…. Read More

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December 11, 2012 @ 3:23 am By Forbes  |  

2012 was quite a year for the crowdfunding industry. In April, President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, which will open up equity-based crowdfunding for unaccredited investors. In May, the Pebble E-Paper Watch set a crowdfunding record and gained national media headlines, raising over $10 million on donation-based crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Research firm Massolution… Read More

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November 12, 2012 @ 8:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

IT World has entered into the soothsayer realm and is now making predictions on the future.  It is pretty safe to say that no-one will remember these predictions by this time next year so there is not too much lost at getting this wrong.   We will concur with their number 1 prediction though –… Read More

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November 8, 2012 @ 2:52 am By Business2Community  |  

The world of social media underwent major changes in 2012.  We saw the addition of Facebook Timelines for Fan Pages, the rise of Pinterest, revamped LinkedIn Company Pages, improved Twitter profile pages, and the increasing pressure to prove social media ROI.  As more companies begin leveraging social media for marketing, sales and customer service, it… Read More

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