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June 25, 2013 @ 9:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Realty Mogul is a Finalist at Innotribe SWIFT. Real estate crowdfunding site Realty Mogul tipped its hat by announcing it had just surpassed the $2 Million mark after just having surpassed the 1$ Million the end of May.  The site has been crowdfunding only since… Read More

June 24, 2013 @ 9:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Does the TiBolt look familiar? See how an American manufacturer is using JumpStartCity to crowdfund one product twice, and see why he’s had so much success on this new platform.

June 22, 2013 @ 1:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

“Equity for Punks” Targets £4 Million in Equity. In 2007 BrewDog, located in Aberdeenshire in the United Kingdom, had two employees – not counting the dog.  The two founders, James Watt and Martin Dickie (and sole shareholders) were dedicated beer aficionados who were tired of… Read More

June 21, 2013 @ 2:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The heavily covered (and often maligned) crowdfunding campaign for Soylent is coming to an end. Rob Rhinehart and his team will soon go into delivery mode in an effort to deliver on promises made to over 6,000 backers. Soylent is a meal replacement drink created… Read More

June 21, 2013 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

The North Carolina General Assembly have passed their very own Jump Start Our Business Start-up Act yesterday allowing the bill to move forward to the State Senate for their approval.  Overwhelmingly approved with a vote of 103 – 1, the  legislators sponsoring the bill at… Read More

June 20, 2013 @ 7:57 am By Kristin Voinovich  |  

UK Equity Crowdfunding Sites Promote Generous Tax Incentives Available for Investors. One Program, available since 1994, has generated over £8.6 Billion in funds raised. But it is too early to measure the total impact of these incentives. The United Kingdom has been one of the… Read More

June 19, 2013 @ 9:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Ruth Hedges is the CEO of Crowdfunding Roadmap, a leader in industry groups like CFIRA and the CFPA and the organizer of the first Global Crowdfunding Convention & Bootcamp conference. Now she has announced that she will be holding a two-day course on crowdfunding on… Read More

June 18, 2013 @ 8:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oculus VR has raised $16 million in a round with contributions from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, Founders Fund and Formation 8. Spark Capital and Matrix Partners led the round. Spark founder Santo Politi and Matrix partner Antonio Rodriguez both acquire seats on Oculus’s Board of… Read More

June 17, 2013 @ 7:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

It was inevitable with the revelations that NSA Contractor Edward Snowden shared about cyber-spying that anti-spying crowdfunding campaigns would be soon to follow or  crowdfunding campaigns which  already exist – finally percolate to the surface.  While it is hard to believe there is a way… Read More

June 17, 2013 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Pling is a rewards based crowdfunding platform based in Germany.  The creators of this crowdfunding application experienced some initial success early on in the German crowdfunding market – enough so to sell the platform to investors and  to move their company in a different direction…. Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 7:56 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Family and PlayLab are two New York-based design firms that happen to share an office space. The two firms have put their heads together to try and build a crazy pool that will float in the Hudson river, clean the river water and allow New… Read More

June 14, 2013 @ 9:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Members of the House Financial Services Committee are exploring the option of passing additional legislation even as crowdfunding industry stakeholders continue to wait on the SEC to pass legislation Although small companies are at the forefront of technological innovation and job creation, they often face… Read More

June 13, 2013 @ 9:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The European Crowdfunding Network has published a whitepaper explaining the state of crowdfunding regulation in the UK, Spain, Italy and Germany. The document explores how all four countries are simultaneously taking their own unique approaches to implementing crowdfunding while clearly learning from one another as they… Read More

June 12, 2013 @ 8:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

James Stumpf took to Kickstarter back in 2011 to try and raise funds for a slick wireless keyboard. It started out as a great crowdfunding story. $67,500 raised from 638 backers in a month and a half. Measuring in at only 9.8mm thick, Levitatr™ is… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 8:24 am By Ludwine Dekker  |  

In the final lesson, we go over how to plan for success and be prepared for failure.

June 10, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Until just recently, the category crowdfunded films and video held the crown of the most popular projects on Kickstarter but now crowdfunding games has usurped this position.  From the Kickstarter stats page games stand as follows: Games Category: Total projects 5,584 Total Dollars $144.21 Million… Read More

June 10, 2013 @ 11:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Facebook Employee Dwight Crow (pictured) has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdtilt seeking at least $10,000 to send to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. From the campaign page… We should set a precedent by rewarding this type of extremely courageous behavior. It’s definitely apparent that legal… Read More

June 10, 2013 @ 9:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Having only launched in February 2011, equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has been making waves in the world of global finance ever since. Having launched with 6 businesses lined up to raised equity capital, the team at Crowdcube never looked back since that day in February…. Read More

June 9, 2013 @ 1:08 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart’s Crowdhoster campaign for Soylent launched with a goal of $100,000. Less than three weeks later the campaign is poised to cross a half a million dollars in contributions, and that feat includes a nice perk for backers of the campaign: a stainless steel… Read More

June 7, 2013 @ 8:15 am By Kristin Voinovich  |  

In mid – May a party was held in Shanghai, China, at the Hult International Business School.  The event was held in recognition of the launch of SeedAsia – the first Pan Asia equity crowdfunding platform to service the region. Many prominent business leaders were… Read More