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June 6, 2013 @ 12:26 am By JD Alois  |  

In a post on the Crowdcube blog, the UK based equity crowdfunding platform claimed some impressive statistics as their site continues to experience dramatic growth as it exemplifies the promise of crowdfunding.  For the first half of 2013, Crowdcube has crowdfunded £4.4 Million which is… Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 10:11 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Today in should have seen that coming: An 18 year old girl named Nicole moved into a house with a handful of her friends after graduating high school. One day everyone decided to do what young people do and jump off the roof and into the pool…. Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 8:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

If you’re a regular visitor to Crowdfund Insider you’ve no doubt heard of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality gaming headset approved by grandmothers everywhere. Now the Rift’s logical companion is crowdfunding on Kickstarter and it has already met a $150,000 funding goal. It’s called… Read More

June 4, 2013 @ 9:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

The European Commission held a workshop on Crowdfunding this week.  Below is a storify from the event which included the participation of several different crowdfunding platforms including: Sponsume Sonic Angel Ulule Alternativa Seedrs Babyloan Keynote speakers included: Michel Barnier – Commissioner for Internal Markets and… Read More

June 4, 2013 @ 7:11 am By JD Alois  |  

It is being reported that GoFundMe purchased the domain Crowdfunding.com for $170,000.  The purchase was actually completed in September of 2012 as was reported on CrowdfundInsider.  What was not disclosed at the time was the amount paid. As reported in AllThingsD, it is expected that… Read More

June 1, 2013 @ 9:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunding pioneer and gaming legend Andrew Reisse was killed in his hometown of Irvine, California last night. Reisse was crossing the street when he was struck by a car that was involved in a police pursuit. Reisse was 33 years old. Mashable reported the following statement… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 8:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Bisakha Sen, an associate professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, has launched a campaign on Microryza to fund her research into the effect of gun policy and gun culture on public safety in the United States. The project aims to draw conclusions based… Read More

May 30, 2013 @ 8:32 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter is used to fund everything from the unimaginable to the completely absurd, and five projects on our radar today pretty much run that gamut. Here are five projects getting a lot of buzz this week… ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone Planetary Resources is… Read More

May 29, 2013 @ 7:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter’s stats crossed an impressive milestone yesterday: 100,000 projects launched on the platform since it went live in April of 2009. It’s official! Over 100K projects have launched on Kickstarter. Can’t wait to see what comes next! kickstarter.com/help/stats — Kickstarter (@kickstarter) May 28, 2013 About… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 9:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

UK based equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube is preparing to enter the Canadian  market this month.  A post on the Canadian home page of the platform stated; Crowdcube, from our UK base, is already the world’s most successful equity Crowdfunding platform and has so far raised… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 7:44 am By Ludwine Dekker  |  

These tips were compiled by Ella van Leeuwen, Margit Laurs and Melvin Loggies, Master students Entrepreneurship & New Business Venturing at the Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University), Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Content shared in partnership with Symbid. Raising capital through traditional financing methods has become harder… Read More

May 27, 2013 @ 8:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Over Regulation Has Challenged Public Markets, Will Crowdfunding Resurrect These Markets or Will Over Regulation Reign Supreme? Recently venture capitalist, tech entrepreneur and  industry soothsayer,  Marc Andreesen was interviewed on CNBC in an piece entitled “We are Living Through a Tech Depression“.  His talking points… Read More

May 25, 2013 @ 6:30 am By JD Alois  |  

The Pebble smart watch was born of Kickstarter to raise the most funds to date on the rewards based crowdfunding platform. It has been only one year since headlines were made about this crowdfunding project – but what a year. Recently the team behind the Pebble… Read More

May 24, 2013 @ 8:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart’s campaign for Soylent continues to raise funds, now having neared the quarter million dollar mark. Besides being innovative in its use of Crowdtilt’s open-source Crowdhoster platform, one other aspect of the campaign is proving to be quite useful: the use of Discourse to… Read More

May 23, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Dominique Litmaath River  |  

Crowdfunding has taken the world by storm and the United Kingdom has been a leader in many regards.  It is not just the realm of the ubiquitous reward sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo – each on a path for global expansion – but in investment… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 9:47 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart and his team have settled on Crowdhoster as the platform of choice for their crowdfunding campaign for Soylent. We wrote about Soylent in the past, a meal replacement drink that garnered both praise and criticism in the press. Click here to see the… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 8:13 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A report released last month entitled Equity Crowdfunding and Venture Capital included some interesting revelations regarding what US venture capitalists and lawyers expect from equity crowdfunding. The report surveyed VCs and lawyers based in the states. Questions sought to gauge expectations about the JOBS Act’s trajectory and… Read More

May 19, 2013 @ 8:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

The much anticipated journo crowdfunding site Vourno is on track to launch live on Monday, according to a recent tweet from their twitter account. Vourno hopes to be world’s largest funding platform and independent news network for video journalism.  A crowdfunding platform where news is… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 7:48 am By Sang Lee  |  

Sang Lee of Return On Change outlines four simple reasons why crowdfunding works in today’s economic climate.

May 15, 2013 @ 7:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Title III of the JOBS Act stands to legalize the participation of non-accredited investors in crowdfunding offerings. One of the wildcards in the approach up to the implementation of Title III is the cap on how much an individual is allowed to invest per year,… Read More