General News

December 18, 2012 @ 5:12 pm By Forbes  |  

Matter is a success story that illustrates how the new economy is shaping up. Fine, but with a lot of emphasis on work-in-progress. We’ve known for a while that the tech community does things differently – would we have had collaboration software without the open source movement?… Read More

December 18, 2012 @ 2:42 pm By Greg Mitchell, The Nation  |  

A new group, the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which seemed to come out of nowhere, has hit the ground running—within a day of its launching, just yesterday. It’s already named the first four organizations to gain fundings (WikiLeaks and three others), drawn wide coverage (from The… Read More

December 18, 2012 @ 10:44 am By Zach Noorani  |  

A new wave of angel investors is about to descend on startup land.  These New Angels are you and I.  AngelList will connect us to the market.  Equity crowdfunding platforms will broker our deals.  And the JOBS Act will make it all legal. While a… Read More

December 18, 2012 @ 7:53 am By CleanTechnica  |  

Last week, Senator Lois Walk re-introduced the shared renewable energy self-generation bill, SB43, which could help to advance community solar projects within California. Despite strong backing from consumer groups, environmental groups, one of the top three utilities in the state, and the Department of Defense, the… Read More

December 18, 2012 @ 3:35 am By Washington Business Journal  |  

During the crazy startup bubble times of the late-1990s, money was flowing into venture capital funds faster and at higher volumes than water flowing into Hurricane Sandy-ravaged subway stations in lower Manhattan. Professional venture capitalists rushed to invest billions of dollars taking substantial positions in… Read More

December 18, 2012 @ 1:25 am By JD Alois  |  

  (Staff Translation) C.J. Ramone from the punk band Ramones, is seeking online donors for his first solo album «Reconquista». The Crowdfunding campaign is already online, as reported by the agency in charge in Berlin. For the 47 year old, the album „is a tribute… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 10:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Following the comments by Bank of England Director Andrew Haldane which challenged the hegemony of the traditional banking industry in the UK several Crowdfunding leaders voiced their support in CityAM for his comments; “pretty strong evidence that we are becoming a major threat”, and that… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 9:14 pm By Ecopreneurist  |  

Those involved directly in the crowdfunding industry and businesses that have been eagerly awaiting the new crowdfunding regulations recently heard a bit of news causing a lot of cringing, heartburn and further disappointment in a system that already had a lot to prove. The Securities… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 8:03 am By TechinAsia  |  

Yesterday, the event known as Crowdsourcing Week announced its first ever global conference on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and open innovation that will run from June 3 to 7, 2013. This five-day event in Singapore will focus on how “a crowd of people” can make remarkable contributions… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 6:48 am By GigaOm  |  

There have been a number of interesting experiments in crowdfunding journalism recently, including topic-specific projects like Syria Deeply and the science journalism of Matter (a magazine co-founded by my former GigaOM colleague Bobbie Johnson) and donations help support other players such as ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. But could… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 3:48 am By Florida Today  |  

The Space Coast likes to boast, often with good reason, about the area’s deep pool of entrepreneurs. Some of them are trying hard to get the attention of investors through the Space Coast Energy Consortium’s “Space Coast Challenge,” a venture with the New York-based crowd-funding… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 2:34 am By Guardian  |  

Two years ago this month, the major online payment systems – Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and more – cut off one of the world’s most famous journalism organizations from the public. They stopped taking payments on behalf of WikiLeaks and, in the process, highlighted one of the most dangerous threats… Read More

December 16, 2012 @ 11:31 am By GeekWire  |  

Recently, the Northwest Energy Angels convened a breakfast briefing on cleantech investing, and I had the honor of moderating a panel headlined by Clean Tech Nation author and Clean Edge managing director Ron Pernick; Kirk Washington, a Partner at Yaletown Venture Partners; and Susan Preston, General Partner… Read More

December 15, 2012 @ 4:27 am By Statesmen.com  |  

A few years ago, Chris Roberts felt the itch to return to his old stomping grounds – making video games. The veteran Austin designer responsible for the iconic “Wing Commander” franchise had been making movies for most of the past decade. Meanwhile, the gaming universe… Read More

December 14, 2012 @ 10:50 pm By St. Louis Business Journal  |  

Last week I pointed out that despite all of the hype around crowd funding for startups, it’s still illegal to crowdfund in exchange for equity. Well, it still is, but there has been a small development in the saga of the JOBS Act since then. In a… Read More

December 14, 2012 @ 3:59 am By iExpats  |  

Crowdfunding for investors putting small sums of cash in to risky business start-ups is likely to be policed by financial regulators under new rules. The government believes that the lack of regulation has held back investors from putting cash in to a business wanting to… Read More

December 13, 2012 @ 6:22 pm By Huffington Post  |  

I just spent three exciting days as an official blogger for LeWeb, Europe’s largest tech conference. As a tech blogger and entrepreneur, I look forward to LeWeb, which is held in Paris every December, as much as I ever did to Christmas as a kid…. Read More

December 13, 2012 @ 11:44 am By Angus Loten, Wall Street Journal  |  

Scott Schroeder needs financing for his small electronics assembly business to hire more workers amid a recent surge in demand for its services. His bank recently refused to increase the Oregon company’s credit line, forcing him to consider selling equity in his company to dozens,… Read More

December 13, 2012 @ 11:43 am By Huiwen Leo, CrowdCheck  |  

It’s tempting to reveal very little information when trying to make a sale.  We all want to put our best foot forward, and to reveal imperfections only when we absolutely have to.  For example, when selling a car, a seller might want to reveal the… Read More

December 13, 2012 @ 11:34 am By Higher Ed Crowdfunding  |  

Key points from our evolving business case: The landscape of fundraising in higher education is changing rapidly. Demographic, technological, and social changes, economic challenges, cutbacks in state and Federal funding to higher education, and increased competition from a new breed of agile and aggressive non-profits… Read More