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July 31, 2013 @ 8:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Accomplished Film Director Spike Lee was interviewed on CNBC today regarding his current Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a future film about human beings addicted to blood.  He is looking to raise $1.25 Million and he is almost half way their with just under $500,000.  Steven… Read More

July 30, 2013 @ 8:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity Crowdfunding Campaign Launched on Seedrs by Renowned Fund Managager Nicola Horlick.  Seeks £150,000 for 10% Equity in New Venture. Nicola Horlick, one of Britain’s most successful and well-regarded fund managers, has launched a campaign on equity crowdfunding site Seedrs to raise seed capital for… Read More

July 28, 2013 @ 3:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

EarlyIQ, a San Diego based company, has launched a suite of services to improve transparency and mitigate the risk of fraud in private capital markets. EarlyIQ’s services may be used by private investment crowdfunding portals for regulatory compliance specified in the final SEC rules for Title… Read More

July 24, 2013 @ 8:27 am By JD Alois  |  

 Investors Willing Accept Lower Returns for Positive Social Benefit. People’s Community Market (PCM), a  venture dedicated to building the first full-service food store for 11,000 West Oakland families in over 10 years, has announced that it has raised $650,000, exceeding the organization’s target of reaching $500,000… Read More

July 14, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, one of the leading equity crowdfunding platforms in the United Kingdom, recently updated their instructions for companies applying to leverage their crowdfunding site.  Expressing the knowledged gained via their recent experience regarding their successful crowdfunding efforts, Seedrs has tuned their approach. In a posting… Read More

July 9, 2013 @ 10:18 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Let’s face it: building a basic crowdfunding platform is easy. This is at least in part why the space is so exciting. Many disruptors will come and go, and those that execute best will stay. A recent post on Mozilla Hacks includes a tutorial to… Read More

July 7, 2013 @ 10:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Video game Star Citizen, created by Chris Roberts and his Roberts Space Industries (RSI), is ready to surpass $14 Million raised.  This crowdfunding campaign has the potential to be the single largest campaign ever and already stands in the top crowdfunding campaings to take place… Read More

July 3, 2013 @ 8:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a lengthy report published earlier today banking group BBVA address a wide range of financial industry challenges which included the disruptive innovation of debt and equity crowdfunding. Stating the  “financial industry faces its most dramatic transformation in modern history because of increased online and… Read More

July 3, 2013 @ 12:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Online Marketplace Zaarly and Kiva Zip Partner to Boost Small Business Growth Through Online Sales Channel and Crowdfunded Loans for Budding Entrepreneurs Zaarly and Kiva are launching a partnership to provide small business owners online storefronts and access to crowdfunded business loans.  The initial launch… Read More

June 30, 2013 @ 10:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Now in the Top 25 Kickstarter Campaigns Ever. The ARKYD Space Telescope which crowdfunded an amazing $325,000 on their first day, has closed their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter with well over their initial $1,000,000 target.  The project called “the first space telescope for everyone” had… Read More

June 30, 2013 @ 10:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Harlaw Hydro Ltd., located outside of Edinburgh, Scotland, has hit their crowdfunding goal of £313,000 to finance a hydro electric energy plant in a unique twist in community crowdfunding.  The goal was reached via community participation in just 12 weeks. Back in the Spring of… Read More

June 28, 2013 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Below is a brief video from Fleur Emery from Green & Pleasant, brewers of all-natural, craft-brewed lager and lemon shandy.  Fleur shares here experience with crowdfunding on Crowdcube.  Earlier this year the campaign raised over £122,000 in equity on the investment crowdfunding platform. The crowdfunding campaign raised… Read More

June 27, 2013 @ 2:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dubbed Crowdfunding’s Final Frontier – Crowdfund Anything Anywhere Site FundRazr Powers PayPal Galactic Site. The crowdfunding innovators at FundRazr are are powering PayPal Galactic’s partnership with SETI Institute to crowdfund life on earth, and search for ET (extraterrestrial) life beyond it. SETI’s Curiosity Movement crowdfunding… Read More

June 23, 2013 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

This independent report -‘The Future of Crowdfunding in the UK’ is from writer/ researcher/ economist Ian Youngman, who specializes in reporting on new financial ideas, tackles UK crowdfunding.  The author is no fan of Kickstarter and postulates the industry must get itself in order to… Read More

June 20, 2013 @ 12:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Research universities, often a source of this innovation, are offering a solution through translational research, proof of concept, and start-up gap funding programs. These gap funds and their impact on our innovation capability are detailed in a new, online resource called Mind the Gap. Mind… Read More

June 17, 2013 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Pling is a rewards based crowdfunding platform based in Germany.  The creators of this crowdfunding application experienced some initial success early on in the German crowdfunding market – enough so to sell the platform to investors and  to move their company in a different direction…. Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 7:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

DropShades are currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The shutter-style sunglasses were designed to react to the music playing around them. The campaign page explains… DropShades are the world’s best audio responsive party glasses that “dance” to the beat of the music. Using a tiny microphone connected… Read More

June 16, 2013 @ 3:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Loog Guitar was crowdfunded on Kickstarter back in 2011 – raising a total amount of $65,618 on a goal of $15,000.  The premise was simple:  a three stringed guitar which was easy to handle and simple to learn, teaching the joy of playing a guitar… Read More

June 12, 2013 @ 5:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Hartford Enhances Management Liability Offerings For Small And Midsize Businesses, includes Crowdfunding under the Jobs Act. The Hartford has enhanced its private company management liability offerings with Private Choice OvationSM, a comprehensive package policy with updated and expanded coverage options designed to address the most important emerging exposures… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 8:24 am By Ludwine Dekker  |  

In the final lesson, we go over how to plan for success and be prepared for failure.