Tagged: video

June 10, 2013 @ 10:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Richard Bliss is a successful Kickstarter alumnus, having launched three successful Kickstarter projects in the past. He consulted on a handful of other successful projects. He’s a crowdfunding expert, speaker and the producer of two series everyone in the space should know about. Bliss’s viewpoint… Read More

June 6, 2013 @ 4:10 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

As we’ve reported previously, The White House invited a select group of crowdfunding entrepreneurs to be recognized as “Champions of Change” on June 4th, 2013. The White House has since released a video of the event on YouTube. Watch below…

June 5, 2013 @ 9:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Earlier this week Forbes contributor Devin Thorpe interviewed three professors regarding their recent report on patterns in crowdfunding markets. Serious academic research in the nascent field of crowdfunding is limited, but Gordon Burtch of the University of Minnesota, Anindya Ghose of New York University and Sunil Wattal… Read More

May 29, 2013 @ 2:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Today Mashable released a video that provides a high-level overview of The Prodigy Network, a multinational crowdfunding company with roots in real estate. We’ve written about the Prodigy Network here before among other real estate-focused crowdfunding sites. What the Prodigy Network accomplished in crowdfunding a… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 7:32 am By JD Alois  |  

This video is an excellent brief explanation of funding rounds for any budding entrepreneur or student of finance.  This is courtesy of OnlineMBA.com. Whether you are an entrepreneur trying to get things moving with a startup company or just interested in learning more about business… Read More

May 8, 2013 @ 3:45 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Zach Braff took an opportunity to address his critics and wax poetic on the larger crowdfunding space during a 17 minute interview with the team behind Kickstarted. Kickstarted is a documentary on crowdfunding currently being prepared for a Kickstarter campaign itself. Of note is Braff’s… Read More

May 8, 2013 @ 8:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Yesterday Dominic Green and William Wei of Business Insider posted a video of the BI team meandering around New York City asking people whether they knew what Kickstarter was. The responses are really interesting and present an ironic microcosm of the entire narrative surrounding the… Read More

March 28, 2013 @ 9:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

ProHatch recently held what is rumored to be an extremely successful crowdfunding incubator, and they have made the videos from the training sessions available to the public. Guest speakers include Sara Hanks from CrowdCheck, Domenick Celentano from Foodpreneur, and Joy Schoffler and Jillian Pedersen from… Read More

March 28, 2013 @ 8:47 am By WSJ  |  

Small companies raising funds from everyday people started off in the U.S. But crowdfunding has begun to take off in the U.K. Dow Jones’s Art Patnaude has been looking at this new alternative to scarce bank loans.

March 22, 2013 @ 12:33 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

In this video former AOL CEO Steve Case discusses the future of crowdfunding and its effect on venture capital with JJ Colao of Forbes. He also expresses some optimism regarding the SEC’s timeline. Watch below…

March 13, 2013 @ 10:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This is an excellent 6-7 minute primer on crowdfunding. Watch below… hat tip to Greater Louisville Inc. Bill Dawson – EnterpriseCorp Crowdfunding from Greater Louisville Inc. on Vimeo.

March 5, 2013 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

March 5, 2013 @ 9:40 am By Rose Spinelli  |  

In advance of my “crowdfunding speed consulting” session with the film students I talked about in my previous post, I did a bit of homework hoping to help students work through an issue they encountered: How do you make a great video pitch about your film without giving… Read More

February 19, 2013 @ 3:27 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

February 19, 2013 @ 3:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Filmmakers / Actors Etta Devine and Gabriel Diani (The Selling) agree that most people think crowdfunding is going to be easy. That by simply launching your campaign, backers from all over the world are going to pour in. They tell us crowdfunding is a full-time… Read More

February 14, 2013 @ 6:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

February 7, 2013 @ 7:43 pm By Jon O'Brien, ReelSEO  |  

An essential part of any crowdfunding campaign is the video. According to Kickstarter, 50% of projects with a video succeed, versus 30% success for projects without a video. Videos will make, or break, your project no matter if you’re funding a feature film, revolutionary toilet paper or… Read More

January 18, 2013 @ 1:04 pm By Jonathan Sandlund, The Crowd Cafe  |  

Jonathan Sandlund sits down with Lasse Makelah, CEO of Invesdor, to discuss the equity crowdfunding platform. You can find stats from the talk on The Crowd Cafe.

January 10, 2013 @ 8:58 pm By Jeff Jedras, itbusiness.ca  |  

A round-up of the top successful crowdfunding videos of 2012 offers some insight on what to do to get the cash. With 2013 expected to be the year of crowdfunding (at least according to our own Brian Jackson), more and more entrepreneurs will likely be… Read More

January 4, 2013 @ 8:29 am By Charles Luzar  |  

And this is why we need to support our entrepreneurs. Without them we’re doomed. Thanks to the Kauffman Foundation for putting together these awesome sketchbook episodes. You can see more of them here.