January 11, 2013 @ 5:22 am By CFI Correspondent  |  

(Staff Translation) The band “The body of the Lito” is kicking off its campaign tomorrow to seek support for its first record, counting on the collaboration of Manuel Manquiña (a Spanish actor from Galicia). Five new bands are asking for public support to produce their albums thanks to Crowdfunding. Verkami, the most important platform of… Read More

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December 28, 2012 @ 6:42 am By Dominique Litmaath River  |  

As confidence in banks and the economy by Spanish residents continues to plummet industries within the creative space are turning to crowdfunding as an alternative to traditional financing to provide much needed investment in projects.  Small businesses have woken up to the bleak reality in which they can no longer rely on the financial instruments offered by the… Read More

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December 14, 2012 @ 4:50 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Five Young entrepreneurs move forward with a Segovian Soccer Club radio and televisión project. Internet Internet Micro-sponsorship, better known as Crowdfunding is coming to Segovia thanks to five young entrepreneurs, creators of the televisión channel RTV Gimnástica Segoviana. Teresa, Marcos, Carlos, Óscar and Álex are the team behind RTV Gimnástica Segoviana, a project launched… Read More

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December 10, 2012 @ 10:46 pm By El Economista  |  

(Staff Translation) Crowdfunding has reached fashion in Spain. The industry branch of textile design, like other branches is suffering from the draught raiding traditional channels of financing. Within this context, Fanstyler is becoming the first  micro-financing platform in Spain with an exclusive focus on these type of businesses. The platform was brought to life by… Read More

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November 30, 2012 @ 1:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Insider recently spoke to Enric Senabre Hidalgo, Projects Coordinator & Community Manager at Goteo.  Goteo is a successful crowdfunding site based in Spain which is managed by a non profit organization – Fundacion Fuentes Abiertas (Open Source Foundation).  Their source code is readily available on GitHub.  Goteo has embraced the core principles of openness, neutrality, transparency and… Read More

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October 30, 2012 @ 2:22 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) I have specialized in the new financing solutions and donations. Within this context, last year, alongside the Spanish production crew “Riot Cinema Collective” I participated in the making of the science fiction movie El Cosmonauta. Before this, I never gaged the similarities that exist between successfully producing a firm and launching a start… Read More

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October 25, 2012 @ 1:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Water, knowlege, culture: Who will have access common goods if everything is being privatized? What forms of financing allow an equal distribution? One answer to that question is the Spanish platform Goteo: Whatever is being financed here becomes common good. Olivier Schulbaum, one of the founders, reports. We founded goteo in 2010, at… Read More

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October 1, 2012 @ 1:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Lately we have heard about Crowdfunding as an alternative means to obtain financing for projects in order to collectively assume their cost. But in some sectors, such as in music, that individual contribution was already vital to guarantee the success of a band, a concert or an album in the first place. That… Read More

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October 1, 2012 @ 12:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) The city of Albacete signs up for Crowdfunding To obtain financing to make an entrepreneurial, cultural or social project viable can be a major obstacle these days but inventions and new technologies also put in place tools that can solve these issues. We are talking about Crowdfunding, a term imported from the Anglo-Saxon… Read More

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September 20, 2012 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Floqq finalizes its crowdfunding documentary on new forms of labour recycling Human Resources HHRR Press: the Spanish education platform Floqq.com is finalizing the shooting of the documentary film #Paro0 that shows new forms of labour recycling with the goal to find new employment. According to Floqq there are certain professions and sectors linked… Read More

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September 19, 2012 @ 5:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

  (Staff Translation) Tuesday, September 25th marks the start of the Social Media Week Barcelona (SMWB), the largest social network conference that is held for the first time in our country. With a program intending to embrace all aspects or digital communications and social networking, the SMWB opens with a session on Crowdfunding. A concept… Read More

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