General News

May 18, 2013 @ 10:49 am By Bizactions  |  

Out of a total $6.9 billion dollars invested across the nation during the first quarter of 2013, Georgia deals accounted for $322.4 million, catapulting the state to fourth place for venture capital funding last quarter. Georgia ranked behind only California, New York and Massachusetts. The… Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 10:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Lona Nallengara has been named the SEC’s chief of staff today, leaving his previous post as the director of the agency’s Division of Corporate Finance. Nallengara took his lumps in a recent House Committee hearing over the SEC’s delay in implementation of the JOBS Act,… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 11:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

NowStreet Media, producer of  financial events that introduce rising asset classes to Wall Street, has unveiedl its “Capitalizing on Financial Innovation” webinar series, aimed at helping broker-dealers, investment bankers, financial advisors, issuers and investors of all sizes succeed in a financial industry that is in… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdsourcing Week, a conference on everything Crowdsourcing – including crowdfunding. The event will bring together leaders and innovators from around the world to discuss the impact of the open internet and the “fundamental shift towards the new digital economy”.  The conference opens on June 3rd in Singapore… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 9:21 am By Crowdismo  |  

Access to capital is a barrier for many of today’s budding entrepreneurs. Sometimes all you need is a little love. And for Crowdismo, that takes the form of innovation funding via the crowd commonly known as crowdfunding. Powering projects across education, social impact, and entrepreneurship… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

All this week CNBC will be sharing their list of 50 disruptors.  Crowdfunding platforms CircleUp, LendingClub and Kickstarter have made the list of a new companies which are shaking up their sector – financial services.  LendingClub has recently hit front page headlines with the $125… 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 15, 2013 @ 9:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

“Yoga: The Art of Transformation,” will be on view  at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery October 19th  through Jan. 26, 2014.  This is the world’s first exhibi­tion about the discipline’s visual history and will reveal its fascinating meanings and histories over the past 2,000 years.   To… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 12:13 pm By GigaOM  |  

Coming off a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund its Dispatch broadband aggregation software, Connectify is returning to the crowd-funding site for the next iteration of its product. This time around, the Philadelphia startup is developing a cloud-based packet parsing and channel bonding service called Switchboard designed to… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 5:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Arizona Attorney Jonathan Frutkin has  recently published a new book about this new source of finance, known as “equity crowdfunding”. According to Frutkin, the same power of online funding will soon let local companies raise capital online – and more importantly, make customers into owners, increasing… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 10:31 am By Upstart Business Journal  |  

Memo to all those who think the crowd isn’t sophisticated enough to make startup investments: Crowdfunding isn’t all that different from raising money from venture capitalists, a new study shows. A study by Ethan Mollick of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, brought to my attention by a… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 3:25 pm By Fresh Business Thinking  |  

Despite the economy avoiding a triple dip recession many leading entrepreneurs remain concerned about long-term growth prospects, according to the latest Smith & Williamson Enterprise Index. There was a marginal drop in the headline figure, although there were signs of positivity elsewhere. The inaugural Index,… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 9:17 am By 2amtheatre.com  |  

We decided to launch our first-ever Kickstarter campaign to supplement our meager budget — to build the platforms, to rent and build some costume pieces (indeed, I spent last night sewing, as did the actress who’s playing Emily), to help pay for postage to mail… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

CommunityLeader and Benjamin & Jerald have  jointly announced  the launch of cTrade—as an accredited and authorized broker-dealer solution for crowdfunding portals. cTrade was designed to support the online solicitation and sale of securities in today’s regulatory environment, and will be fully prepared to support portals… Read More

May 12, 2013 @ 6:04 pm By SeekingAlpha  |  

Since 2006, P2P & online lending have enjoyed explosive growth. Lending Club and Prosper, America’s two largest P2P lenders have now surpassed $2B in loan origination, and P2P has captured the attention of industry legends, the financial media, the investing public and even today’s technology… Read More

May 12, 2013 @ 10:30 am By Philly.com  |  

(We) find it impressive that three Philly 50 companies – which tend to be large, established companies – went public in 2012. Epam Systems Inc., Five Below Inc., and Globus Medical Inc. are fairly young companies that spent years preparing for Wall Street-underwritten initial public… Read More

May 12, 2013 @ 10:05 am By MCV  |  

New studio Precursor chose not to fund its ‘spiritual successor’ to Shadow of the Eternals via Kickstarter, and perhaps now we know why. As investigated by Polygon, the project is asking for ‘donations’. If it were being run on Kickstarter then Precursor would only be able… Read More

May 12, 2013 @ 9:54 am By Forbes  |  

Jack Conte is nothing if not inventive when it comes to creating  music. One half of the YouTube sensation Pomplamoose, Conte’s ability to play nearly any instrument imaginable while creating amazingly entertaining “videosongs” with his fellow band member Nataly Dawn has resulted in the duo garnering a… Read More

May 12, 2013 @ 9:45 am By Arkansas Business  |  

The Internet is profoundly democratic, lowercase “d.” Anyone with computer access can publish a book, hawk his collection of vintage duck decoys, provide advice on holistic healing. Crowdfunding, enabled by the Internet, promises as profound a shift: Anyone can become a venture capitalist and anyone… Read More

May 12, 2013 @ 9:40 am By The Economist  |  

WILL future historians ever understand how dull and pointless life was in the 21st century? Yes, if a new wearable camera catches on. Memoto, a Swedish start-up, is selling a stamp-sized camera that you can pin on your shirt (see picture). It takes photographs every… Read More