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October 30, 2012 @ 8:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Filmmaker Jennifer Martucci, 22, draws inspiration from disparate sources — “The Lord of the Rings” film series and the crisp dialogue of “The West Wing” and “The Newsroom” scribe Aaron Sorkin, for starters. Martucci grew up in the Issaquah area and recently graduated from the… Read More

October 30, 2012 @ 2:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

To probe the legal intricacies revolving around the JOBS Act and how these new laws impact the crowdfunding scene in the next months leading to and right after its much-anticipated full implementation, Equities.com spoke with Douglas Ellenoff of Ellenoff, Grossman & Scholle LLP. Ellenoff has… Read More

October 30, 2012 @ 1:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Miami, Fl (PRWEB) October 30, 2012 EarlyShares (http://www.earlyshares.com), an Equity Based Crowdfunding platform with a mission to connect investors and entrepreneurs in a safe and secure way, will be hosting one of its Educational Roadshow stops at Columbia University on November 13, 2012. Maurice Lopes,… Read More

October 30, 2012 @ 10:57 am By JD Alois  |  

For the past week, Brian Meece was lecturing at college campuses across the country about the power of crowdfunding. He also took some time to give Handshake360° his thoughts on the importance of crowdfunding within higher education. Handshake360°: If you look at the crowdfunding portals… Read More

October 30, 2012 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

THE Full Monty star Steve Huison is to play a lead role in a film based on the true story of a ‘miracle’ Burnley boy who was born four months premature. Jack Entwistle, now seven years old, weighed just 1lb 6oz when he was born,… Read More

October 30, 2012 @ 7:59 am By JD Alois  |  

A friend who just moved for the second time this year joked with me that she wishes she could Kickstart her exorbitant moving expenses. Of course, she can’t–the platform explicitly forbids “fund my life projects” in favor of creative ones–but there’s room for her on… Read More

October 30, 2012 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

One of the premises of this blog is that the success and methodology of open source are not one-offs, but part of a larger move towards open, collaborative activity. Thus, by observing what open source does well – and not so well – lessons can… Read More

October 30, 2012 @ 2:22 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) I have specialized in the new financing solutions and donations. Within this context, last year, alongside the Spanish production crew “Riot Cinema Collective” I participated in the making of the science fiction movie El Cosmonauta. Before this, I never gaged the similarities that… Read More

October 29, 2012 @ 7:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

The “olde worlde” charm of St Briavels in the Forest of Dean is popular with tourists. They can even stay in a 13th Century gatehouse, built by Edward I to defend a crossbow bolt factory. But now there is a new addition to the landscape… Read More

October 29, 2012 @ 4:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

While concern in Egypt rises over courting investment and international partnerships intended to improve Egypt’s economy, one initiative has broken away from the rest to offer a localized funding option for small projects and startups. Yomken is set to boost the Egyptian economy and improve… Read More

October 29, 2012 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

(Machine Translation) Opening a new front is never easy and even more so if it happens suddenly – there is hype around the idea. This is what happened to nois3lab developing Crowdfuture , a successful event dedicated to crowdfunding. The project involved the everything about crowdfunding, before one of its components… Read More

October 29, 2012 @ 3:49 am By JD Alois  |  

For more than a year, the Massachusetts Senate candidates have fought over their backgrounds, their stances on abortion, and tax policy. But throughout, both have insisted that unemployment and a state jobless rate that now sits at 6.5 percent, are their top priorities. Elizabeth Warren… Read More

October 28, 2012 @ 10:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

The jazz orchestrations of Maria Schneider are the musical equivalent of soufflés from a master chef. Gently penetrating and remarkably resourceful, they yield textures that are often light and feathery, but inlaid with a piquant array of swirling flavors that she resolves in a smooth,… Read More

October 27, 2012 @ 2:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bristol: An entrepreneur from the University of Bristol has been named on an exclusive list of top business people under the age of 30. Sam Harris, who is in his final year studying Biological Sciences, has made Shell LiveWIRE’s annual ‘Hot 40’ entrepreneur list – a… Read More

October 27, 2012 @ 12:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Do you remember in April when Congress enacted the JOBS Act allowing startup companies to raise up to $1 million per year from investors by the Internet without doing the usual things required by the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell stock (called crowdfunding)? Many… Read More

October 26, 2012 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

When Congress in a rare bipartisan stampede rushed to pass the JOBS Act earlier this year, it enacted modest reforms to make it easier for startup businesses to raise capital. But it also saddled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with more rulemaking work at… Read More

October 26, 2012 @ 8:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Millennials aren’t much for volunteering, but Kelli Space and Sabrina Norrie think that they’ve found a way to increase Gen Y’s philanthropic participation rate while appealing to their peers’ much maligned sense of self-interest. The two twentysomethings have founded Zero Bound – a platform that… Read More

October 26, 2012 @ 5:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Lake Lure – Today, Congressman Patrick McHenry gave the keynote address at the Carolina Entrepreneur Conference. McHenry used the occasion to explain his crowdfunding legislation to local entrepreneurs. Recently ranked by Forbes Magazine as one of the top ten most influential people in the country… Read More

October 25, 2012 @ 1:36 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

CINCINNATI and NEW YORK —While it remains difficult to obtain financing from traditional means, small business borrowers can now reach out to friends, family and other high net-worth individuals to secure financing through a newly formed partnership between two of the country’s alternative lending companies…. Read More

October 25, 2012 @ 5:44 am By JD Alois  |  

EarlyShares.com, Inc. (“EarlyShares”), the premiere crowdfunding platform, has entered into a partnership with Point Capital Partners, LLC under their subsidiaries EarlyShares Pro and Point Capital Markets, LLC (“Point Capital Markets”); prestigious veteran owned merchant bank and broker-dealer firm. The partnership will give EarlyShares the opportunity… Read More