General News

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

December 30, 2012 @ 2:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

There was a recent release this past week coming from a law firm, titled: Are Massachusetts Crowdfunding Actions a Sign of Things to Come? This appeared to highlight the forthcoming risks of crowdfunding.  The statement starts by declaring; Massachusetts’s regulators recently filed fraud actions against… Read More

December 29, 2012 @ 4:02 am By WSJ.com  |  

As 2012 comes to a close, we asked several venture capital investors to reflect on the past year and give us their outlook for 2013. Continuing our series is Whitney Johnson, angel investor and co-founder of Boston-based Rose Park Advisors. Johnson speaks about the opportunities in seed-stage… Read More

December 29, 2012 @ 2:51 am By DailyFinance  |  

Shares of Ma ‘n’ Pa’s Grocery and Funeral Services seem likely to be stalled in their release to the public. While the café-crematorium concept hasn’t caught on with the big boys, companies were hopeful that the end of the year would see new legislation regarding crowd-sourced… Read More

December 29, 2012 @ 2:08 am By VentureBeat  |  

As we punch the clock on 2012, we can safely call it the year of Kickstarter … at least for games. After developer Double Fine (The Cave, Psychonauts) broke the crowdfunding concept wide open with its hugely successful campaign that raised over $3.45 million to produce a… Read More

December 27, 2012 @ 4:13 pm By Hypebot  |  

2012 was a big year for music crowdfunding. Though crowdfunding isn’t new, this year was marked by a general buildout of the music crowdfunding space from new services to wide ranging campaigns, outstanding crowdfunding campaigns on the parts of musicians with powerful fanbases and the notable emergence of concert crowdfunding as a… Read More

December 27, 2012 @ 7:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Interesting quote attributed to Jason Best and Sherwood (Woodie) Neiss from Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA). This is from a piece in Business News Daily talking about trends for 2013: “Small businesses produce 50 percent of the jobs in America, but have access to 1 percent… Read More

December 27, 2012 @ 7:47 am By Kristin Voinovich  |  

I read an exceptional article back in November written by Daniel Gorfine and Ben Miller.  Daniel is Director of Special Projects & Legal Counsel for the esteemed Milken Institute and Ben is Co-Founder of Fundrise – a direct investment platform for local real estate and… Read More

December 27, 2012 @ 3:59 am By Business2Community  |  

Traditional book publishers are struggling to stay relevant in a constantly changing industry. The rise of e-books and self-publishing has continued to have a strong impact in the publishing world, and now crowdfunding is the latest trend to join them. More authors are discovering the… Read More

December 26, 2012 @ 12:00 pm By NYTimes  |  

When the Jobs Act became law in April, supporters proclaimed a new era for small businesses seeking to raise money. The “game changer,” as President Obama put it in the Rose Garden as he signed the bill, was a provision to allow small companies to… Read More

December 26, 2012 @ 11:57 am By NYTimes  |  

We have published a story about why the Securities and Exchange Commission has struggled to write the rules that will carry out equity crowdfunding for small businesses. One company that has been at the forefront of the effort to influence those rules is RocketHub, a… Read More

December 26, 2012 @ 6:57 am By Columbus Dispatch  |  

The Columbus Chamber is offering small businesses a new way to raise money by telling them to join the crowd. In a new partnership, the chamber is making SoMoLend its first recommendation for “crowdfunding,” which involves raising money through small pledges online. “We do over… Read More

December 26, 2012 @ 6:50 am By JD Alois  |  

The FanBlaze social network offers something new and innovative in crowdfunding—the site will benefit filmmakers, artists and musicians with their fans in a whole new way of engagement. “I like to suggest it’s equatable to frequent- flyer-miles for fans, meets, network-marketing for creatives,” says CEO… Read More

December 26, 2012 @ 1:03 am By The Post Journal  |  

10,000 Maniacs’ PledgeMusic.com crowd-funding campaign reached its goal Friday, allowing the band to independently release a new album entitled “Music From The Motion Picture.” According to Steve Gustafson, founding member of 10,000 Maniacs, the band went with PledgeMusic.com to fund the new album because it… Read More

December 25, 2012 @ 2:17 pm By Death and Taxes  |  

Being a child actor is a dangerous game. Statistically it sure seems that if you make it big when you’re still small, you’re likely in for a rough ride. Just think of all the good examples that pop to mind: River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Corey… Read More

December 25, 2012 @ 1:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Douglas E. Castle, the Chief Executive Officer of CrowdFunding Incubator LLC (“CFI”), predicts a substantial shakeup in the crowdfunding industry in 2013. The disruption will begin where both project promoters and contributors, who have been only remotely involved with the projects which they have helped… Read More

December 25, 2012 @ 10:05 am By VentureBeat  |  

Now here is the one percent you do want to hear about! The world is on the precipice of creating a trillion-dollar crowdfunding market. In Australia, the ASSOB has offered a crowdfunding investment portal since 2005. In the UK, equity crowdfunding is already in progress, with investment platforms such as Crowdcube and Seedups. And… Read More

December 25, 2012 @ 9:14 am By NYTimes  |  

PARIS — In the early rush to turn crowd-funding online into a new source of public revenue to buy everything from medieval ivory statues in France to a gallery for dinosaur bones in Canada there’s a cautionary tale: It doesn’t always work. The Louvre is… Read More

December 24, 2012 @ 8:15 am By New York Times  |  

PARIS — The crass term for it is begging, but the French prefer a loftier description: “participatory financing.” For as little as a single euro even the most ordinary art connoisseur can join the fund-raising fraternité that is working to restore the dome of the… Read More