General News

January 3, 2013 @ 3:29 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter just posted to their blog that they’ve officially raised $100 million in funding for independent films. Here are 10 quick facts from the post: $102.7 million pledged in total $85.7 million collected Almost 900,000 backers Over 8,500 funded projects Documentaries were the most funded… Read More

January 2, 2013 @ 9:58 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

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January 2, 2013 @ 9:52 pm By Crowdfunding Down Under  |  

I believe there is some confusion over the use of the word ‘crowdfunding’ creating misuse. Let’s look at the two parts of the word crowdfunding: Funding – funds are generally considered to be money and funding is the receipt of money. I believe that is clear… Read More

January 2, 2013 @ 1:13 pm By Mark Mohler, Crowdfunding Law  |  

They missed the deadline.  We knew they would.  They knew the deadline was coming for months and months but they did nothing but offer platitudes.  They knew what the stakes were for a fragile recovery.  They placed another self-inflicted wound on the economy anyhow.  It… Read More

January 2, 2013 @ 12:51 pm By Forbes  |  

Recently I wrote about a new funding source for entrepreneurs: crowdfunding. Right now, small businesses can raise money from the online crowd in exchange for a give-away, such as a product or service. Hopefully sometime in 2013 the rules and guidelines for the Jumpstart Our Business… Read More

January 1, 2013 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

From the page of Forbes, Devin Thorpe declares Crowdfunding to play a major role in Social Entrepreneurship for 2013: Crowdfunding will become an integral, ongoing part of managing nonprofits and growing for-profit social enterprises. Crowdfunding for social ventures and nonprofits will exceed $1 billion, representing… Read More

January 1, 2013 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding PR expert Joy Schoffler, Principal of Leverage PR, will speak at KINGONOMICS 2013 on Jan.12 in Atlanta. Kingonomics will bring together experts in innovation, entrepreneurialism, and investment with over 1,000 entrepreneurs from across the world, eager to learn how Crowdfund investing can help them… Read More

January 1, 2013 @ 8:11 am By Techradar  |  

Think of a crowd. Think of a mob. Think of a mass. The collective nouns for ‘people’ mostly come with negative connotations because, in the English language at least, such large groups are regarded apprehensively. If a third party talks about a crowd’s ‘mind’, then… Read More

January 1, 2013 @ 3:58 am By Joystiq  |  

If 38 Studios was the mainstream game industry story of the year, then crowdfunding site Kickstarter is indisputably the industry watcher’s story of the year. Kickstarter has changed the way developers fund and market games into the foreseeable future. It altered the industry so radically this year that we… Read More

January 1, 2013 @ 1:03 am By The Journal Gazette  |  

The boy awoke on his back, unable to move or speak. He could hear his parents, though. They were nearby. So, with his arms down at his sides, he signaled them with his hands until they stuck a pen in his fingers. With his eyes… Read More

January 1, 2013 @ 1:01 am By Daily Herald  |  

If you’ve been hoping banks will loosen their loan purse strings, Mike Moebs says 2013 may be your year. But, Moebs adds, bankers will make up for continuing low loan rates with higher fees and compensating balances, and risk will be a big part of… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 11:38 am By David Drake  |  

The following guest post is by David Drake, founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a New York City private-equity firm, and of The Soho Loft Capital Creation Events series, a global events and media company. CrowdFunding will lead the way! The first half of 2013 will be… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 10:49 am By Ina Paiva Cordle, Miami Herald  |  

Sherwood Neiss is passionate about entrepreneurship. And he has helped lead the charge to change nearly 80-year-old federal securities laws about investing, so that entrepreneurs can gain access to capital. Called crowdfunding, the changes will allow small investors to fund start-up businesses, hopefully creating jobs… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 10:47 am By Rodney Loo, PandoDaily  |  

What if startup businesses were allowed to place advertisements on television or radio asking for investors? For a long time it was assumed by many in the financial industry that if companies pursued these tactics, they would potentially subject themselves, and their possible investors, to… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 10:24 am By Eric Nuzum  |  

Watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. This past May, the TED Radio Hour explored the fascinating ideas behind mass collaboration. Crowd-based actions on the Internet, collective improvisational pranks on the streets of New York, open-source city building, virtual music composition and performance… the journey into… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This infographic originally appeared on KickstartersHQ.com   Now, see our take on the 17 biggest Kickstarter campaigns

December 31, 2012 @ 9:45 am By Kym McNicholas, PandoDaily  |  

When I first saw the horrific images on television a week ago Friday… Twenty young kids shot and killed in their classroom, I froze. I was speechless. I felt helpless. All I wanted to do was to muster up a superpower and teleport over to… Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 9:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In this video, Sherwood Neiss of Startup Exemption and Crowdfund Capital Advisors explains the JOBS Act and how crowdfunding can help small businesses.

December 30, 2012 @ 5:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Today we’ve rolled out an update to our crowdfunding web site directory.  Now our news is integrated with our directory.  Each web site we’ve captured gets their own independent directory web page, and if we’ve gathered any news on that web site it will be… Read More

December 30, 2012 @ 2:32 pm By SFGate  |  

When entrepreneur Leila Janah talks about her philosophy for life, she quotes Benjamin Franklin’s 13 virtues – inspiring for a technology-driven life, much less the founder and CEO of Samasource, a social “microwork” business with a philanthropic bent. No one had really heard of “microwork” until the Harvard grad… Read More