General News

September 16, 2013 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

The Tower Records store on Sunset Strip in Southern California is under the threat of the wrecking ball.  While records seem novel when everyone downloads their music directly to their smartphone these days, this iconic Tower Records Store continues to have many fans and is… Read More

September 14, 2013 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Oculus Rift crowdfunded over $2.4 Million on Kickstarter just over a year ago and remains one of the super-stars of crowdfunding.  Oculus went on to raise $16 Million in an A round of financing with some pretty big name supporters attached. While this soon to… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 4:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dragon’s Den is a British television show on BBC which allows a group of entrepreneurs to pitch their concept to wealthy investors.  These 5 wealthy “Dragons” then decide whether to invest in any of these companies and the negotiations commence.  Of course drama may ensue… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 7:27 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

This statement from Tomer Barel, PayPal VP of Risk Management, was posted yesterday and just shared with Crowdfund Insider. We’re posting this in it’s entirety and letting it speak for itself. TL;DR: it seems PayPal is about to get serious on fixing systemic issues regarding… Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 2:30 am By Dominique Litmaath River  |  

Symbid is one of the first investment crowdfunding platforms to launch live in Europe. The Rotterdam based company was co- founded in the Netherlands by Korstiaan Zandvliet in 2011.  The idea was born of a concept while Korstiaan was attending business school at ERASMUS.  The… Read More

September 10, 2013 @ 5:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The Second City Network posted this satirical video to YouTube yesterday announcing the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to raise $1.6 trillion. The goal? To help kickstart World War III. The fake pitch video promises things like “organic, grass-fed bombs,” “hybrid Prius tanks,” and “drones… Read More

September 10, 2013 @ 4:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Agenda Includes Important Issues Regarding Jobs Act Implementation. The Securities and Exchange Commission has released the agenda for their meeting of the Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies to be held on Tuesday, September 17, 2013. The discussion is expected to include the final… Read More

September 10, 2013 @ 10:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Scheduled for September 12th, Ronald Trahan Associates Inc. (RTA) announced today that it will broadcast a complementary webinar—“Equity-Based Crowdfunding for Early-Stage Medtech Companies”—on Thursday, Sept. 12, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EDT. “Crowdfunding is very likely to become a precious funding resource for many could-be-great medical technologies… Read More

September 7, 2013 @ 1:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Retirement Industry Trust Association (RITA) is hosting a  self-directed IRA event for financial advisers and other interested parties on October 21st to 22nd 2013 in Austin.  One of the most important topics on their agenda is an update on crowdfunding and impact this new financial… Read More

September 7, 2013 @ 12:56 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Fundrise and Popularise Co-founder Ben Miller was recently on Bloomberg talking about the real estate niche of the crowdfunding space. He briefly hits on the current state of real estate funding and continues on to explain how crowdfunding will help drive capital into real estate… Read More

September 6, 2013 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

The National Association for Business Economists (NABE) will be holding their 55th annual meeting next week in San Francisco.  As part of the gathering a session has been scheduled entitled, “Crowdfinancing: Can the Revolution in Financial Intermediation be a Catalyst for Small Business?”. This session… Read More

September 6, 2013 @ 7:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Valley based VC Taskforce, an organization working to enhance collaboration in the venture community, has announced their “Crowdfunding Series”, scheduled to launch on September 18, 2013.  The new programs will focus on the new world of crowdfunding, using equity, debt or pre-sale dollars. Founded in… Read More

September 5, 2013 @ 9:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Michigan based ALTe Powertrain Technologies (ALTe), the developer of the first plug-in electric hybrid vehicle powertrain system for light commercial fleet vehicles, is prepping to announce its participation in a major innovative funding platform next Monday, September 9th, 2013. The company will announce a new Private Placement Offering using the first of its kind sophisticated investment platform targeting… Read More

September 5, 2013 @ 9:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Inaugural Conference to be held at Snowbird in Utah on September 27, 2013. Hosted by writer Devin D. Thorpe and Dr. Richard Swart  the one-day event will bring social innovators together to discuss social entrepreneurship, impact investing, philanthropy and crowdfunding. All entrepreneurs, investors and those… Read More

September 5, 2013 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Hardware Platform Simultaneously Announces Partnerships with GE, Arrow Electronics and Freescale. In an email to supporters Dragon Innovation announced their platform had gone live along with several new hardware projects on its site. Dragon shared their pending site launch just last month as they revealed investments from… Read More

September 5, 2013 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Bloomberg Tradebook & Capital Connections Crowdfunding Event on September 9th. Bloomberg Tradebook is joining the crowdfunding rush by hosting an evening event next week on Monday, September 9th, 2013.  The gathering will take place at Bloomberg LP.  The presentation will discuss: Crowdfunding platforms, review some… Read More

September 4, 2013 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Recently equity portal Crowdcube re-visited the NESTA – BBAA report on Angel investing in the United Kingdom.  While the research document was produced several years ago (2009 is the publish date) the theme and lessons learned remain intact.  Investing in startups is risky, but rewards… Read More

September 4, 2013 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Massolution NYC 2013: Crowd Powered Business: How LEGO Powers a Billion Dollar Empire with Crowdsourcing. Massolution, a research firm specializing in the crowdsourcing and crowdfunding industries, has announced  that Troels Lange Andersen, Head of Community Business at LEGO, will be keynoting its inaugural conference – Massolution… Read More

September 4, 2013 @ 8:43 am By JD Alois  |  

“One Spark – The World’s Crowdfunding Festival” documentary film produced by Kennetic Productions is set for their initial screening of their film which followed Jacksonville, Florida’s One Spark  Festival.  During today’s (September 4th) Art Walk the film will be presented at Hemming Plaza at 7PM… Read More

September 3, 2013 @ 8:22 am By JD Alois  |  

PeoplesVC announced today that it will soon be launching PeoplesVC-TV, the media platform hopes to revolutionize capital formation for startups and existing small businesses thus helping to create meaningful American Jobs.  The site currently shows the channel will launch in the next twenty days. The… Read More