General News

January 31, 2013 @ 12:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding is still in a holding pattern, hovering over the regulatory process in Washington DC. The merits of crowdfunding continue to become more self evident as progress is made in the UK and around the world. One subject about equity crowdfunding which has only… Read More

January 31, 2013 @ 11:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Washington, DC –  The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the agenda for a meeting of its Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies being held this Friday, February 1. The Committee will consider recommendations about trading spreads for smaller exchange-listed companies, creation of a… Read More

January 31, 2013 @ 9:05 am By InvestmentNews  |  

Crowdfunding is forecast to grow in popularity this year, leading to an added demand for specialized tax advice. The latest evolution in “passing the hat,” crowdfunding portals allow people to help back a project or a burgeoning company by providing financial contributions on the web…. Read More

January 31, 2013 @ 5:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

As a follow-up to my article last week about fixing how we categorize crowdfunding platforms, here is a clip of StartSomeGood founder Tom Dawkins questioning whether crowdfunding is really the right term at all considering where the funds tend to come from. Is it really… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 11:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Gainesville Area Innovation Network (GAIN), the area’s oldest and largest network of technology entrepreneurs and innovators, in partnership with Santa Fe College’s Center for Innovation and Economic Development (CIED), has announced an unprecedented educational event featuring crowdfunding platform EarlyShares. The educational event is a… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 7:10 pm By Forbes  |  

Social entrepreneurs of all varieties are turning to crowdfunding to launch or expand their social efforts; recently I’ve connected with five who have shared their stories of how they raised up to $100,000 each. Rebecca Pontius led the effort for an organization called the Do… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 3:01 pm By Forbes  |  

Crowdfunding is an alternative way to raise capital to get a venture off the ground. The concept’s been around for several years and it’s growing fast: The largest crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, received over $300 million in pledges in 2012. It’s going to be an important… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 1:39 pm By Forbes  |  

Women-owned firms start and grow businesses with substantially less outside financing, according to a Department of Commerce survey of women-owned companies (PDF) across the U.S. That helps to explain why the average women-owned business has 25% lower revenue than the typical male-owned firm in the same… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Clayton Christensen is a business thought leader who is standing on the shoulders of some of the great economists of our times.  Schumpeter, a Professor of  Economics at Harvard, focused on the importance of entrepreneurism to modern economics.  But it is Christensen who applied Schumpeters… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 7:43 am By Real Business  |  

Banks are never keen to lend money to a business that is just an idea. But without money, how to get a great idea off the ground? Together with co-founder Luke Lang, Darren Westlake found a way around that barrier. Watching Dragons’ Den reminded the… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 7:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding: The New Age of Venture Capital or an Invitation to Fraud and Disaster? A Panel is scheduled  to be held at Stanford University on Thursday, February 7,  2013.    There is an opening reception at 5:30PM with a 6PM presentation.  The address is: Room… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 7:00 am By MCV  |  

Andy Schatz, developer of the upcoming award-winning indie Monaco, has expressed his concern with Kickstarter stretch goals – calling the idea “total bullshit” when going about designing a game. Speaking to Penny Arcade Report, Schatz stated that while happy for the people that have found success… Read More

January 29, 2013 @ 5:35 pm By BusinessWeek  |  

For small companies selling consumer products such as makeup or snack food, a partnership with a big multinational company can mean the difference between obscurity and becoming a household name. How does a small brand get a behemoth’s attention? CircleUp, a crowdfunding website that connects… Read More

January 29, 2013 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Labeled Crowdfunding: Deep Impact, the Crowdfunding conference will be held at the University of Herfordshire Business School located North of London.  The daylong event is scheduled for Tuesday, February 26th, 2013. The event is being organized by the Social Foundation which describes themselves as “Makers… Read More

January 29, 2013 @ 7:39 am By NowGamer  |  

Kickstarted games might not have millions of sales, but it’s perfect for the games that are being made says Artizens dev. Kickstarter doesn’t look like it’s about to go away any time soon, but despite the millions of dollars collected through the crowdfunding service it’s… Read More

January 28, 2013 @ 5:28 pm By Houston Business Journal  |  

The words “crowdfunding” and “cruise ship” are not typically found together. However, Robert Dobyns is now in the process of planning what may be the first ever crowdfunding cruise, which is set to depart on a Carnival Cruise ship from Galveston in September. When I first heard… Read More

January 28, 2013 @ 7:25 am By JD Alois  |  

 Front Page PR launched an innovative Indiegogo Crowdfunding campaign  to find fellow Crowdfunders that want to leverage PR, social media, and media relations to conduct successful crowd fundraising promotions. Front Page PR‘s Crowdfunding campaign rewards-based perks offer informative white papers on “How to Build Successful Social Media… Read More

January 28, 2013 @ 3:32 am By Xconomy  |  

Most biotech pros will shrug, or chuckle, if you ask whether crowdfunding will transform life sciences financing in the U.S. This, after all, is an industry where you often need to raise at least $50 million or $100 million to even have a chance at developing a new… Read More

January 27, 2013 @ 8:00 am By DelawareOnline  |  

In April, President Barack Obama signed the bipartisan Jumpstart Our Business  Startups Act into law. The entrepreneurial community cheered, saying the law would help small businesses raise money during their most vulnerable periods, when companies try to move from early to late stage. “The thing that kills… Read More

January 26, 2013 @ 6:35 am By Upstart Business Journal  |  

Last week, influential crowdfunding advocates pleaded with interim Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Elisse Walter to move a set of rules for legislating last year’s Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act into the required 90-day comment period. They feared that the appointment of a new head would further delay the long-awaited legislation… Read More