General News

October 24, 2012 @ 9:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Policies aimed at giving small businesses easier access to capital are “critical” to nearly half the nation’s entrepreneurs, according to an October survey of owners whose firms bring in annual revenue of between $1 million and $20 million. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, whose campaign… Read More

October 23, 2012 @ 12:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdSource, a leader in enterprise-level managed crowdsourcing solutions, announced today a $12.5 million Series A funding round led by Highland Capital Partners. Corey Mulloy, general partner at Highland Capital Partners, has joined CrowdSource’s Board of Directors. Launched publicly in June 2011, CrowdSource uses its 500,000… Read More

October 23, 2012 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Part one of this article outlined crowdfuning in general and provided detailed insight into six investment platforms; this article attempts to answer in detail specific questions. This section provides a comparative illustration of important aspects, based on interviews held with seedmatch, mashup finance,… Read More

October 23, 2012 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

As venture capital funding dropped 12 percent in the last quarter, it’s not easy for new venture capital firms to raise capital, Quartz reports. Investment usually goes into more established firms, like First Round Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, according to the article. First Round Capital… Read More

October 23, 2012 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding pioneer Ryan Bromley has joined innovation consultancy Good Innovation to help other charities develop their digital and social media impact. He joins from Cancer Research UK (CRUK) where he was Online Community Manager. While there he integrated the MyProjects site with the charity’s regionally… Read More

October 23, 2012 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Steve Case emerged from the most maligned merger in American business history to become one of the nation’s leading proponents of entrepreneurship. Backing innovation across a wide range of industries through his Revolution investment company and working tirelessly on Capitol Hill to push legislation in… Read More

October 23, 2012 @ 7:27 am By JD Alois  |  

You might think that VC firms in Silicon Valley had all the leads on the next big thing they needed. You’d be wrong, which explains why new crowdfunding outfit Funders Club just raised $6 million from a gang of expert early-stage investors, including First Round Capital, Felicis… Read More

October 23, 2012 @ 5:42 am By JD Alois  |  

How much online advertising is too much? That’s one of the questions before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as it finalizes regulations to let companies to raise money from investors through crowdfunding. The advertising regulations are one of a slew of issues the SEC… Read More

October 22, 2012 @ 2:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stephen Hawking once said: “I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.” Bold statement. But as I’ve been working on organizing the upcoming Next Generation and Global CrowdFunding Forum which is set to be on November 16th here… Read More

October 21, 2012 @ 5:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity Crowdfunding is predicted to be the next big thing in 2013, and Sweden’s FundedByMe has launched their Equity Crowdfunding platform to the global public, making it an early player in the upcoming emerging market on the equity crowdfunding scene. FundedByMe already offers a crowdfunding platform similar to… Read More

October 21, 2012 @ 2:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

A yoga instructor wants $10,000 for studio renovations. A student wants to take an overseas educational trip. An entrepreneur has an idea for a piece of exercise gear but needs money to get rolling. A coffee shop needs new equipment. Many of these people would… Read More

October 20, 2012 @ 10:12 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Crowdfunding: Fund Collection via the Internet. Many small donations become one big one. This innovative idea, known for financing cultural and start up projects is being adapted to real estate by the Munich organization Betterterms. Via the crowdfunding platform “Kapitalfreunde.de” private donors are… Read More

October 20, 2012 @ 6:19 am By JD Alois  |  

If you need more proof that FundersClub wants to radically change startup funding by letting non-VCs invest, it just closed a $6 million seed round, the largest ever from a Y Combinator company. There are still questions about its legality, but investors include A-listers YC, First Round, Chris Dixon,… Read More

October 19, 2012 @ 1:19 am By JD Alois  |  

STOCKHOLM, October 18, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Equity Crowdfunding is predicted to be the next big thing in 2013, and Sweden’s FundedByMe has launched their Equity Crowdfunding platform to the global public, making it an early player in the upcoming emerging market on the equity… Read More

August 24, 2012 @ 1:46 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

New York City (August 23, 2012) – In a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission today, the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates recommended that the SEC consider rules that would keep a crowdfund investor’s right to rescind a crowdfund investment be kept as close as possible to the… Read More