Strategy

May 14, 2013 @ 9:58 am By The Hill  |  

The JOBS Act has the potential to help entrepreneurs finance their small and emerging growth businesses through “crowdfunding,” but only if we get the costs right. In the year since the measure was signed into law, online technology platforms have continued to successfully disrupt the… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

A one off crowdfunding campaign has cropped up to crowdfund the return of sport superstar Ronaldo to return him to to play for football team Manchester United. BringRonaldoHome, was started by dedicated fans to raise sufficient funds to pay for his return. Over 3500 fans… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Vocal British business advocate Lord Young has published another report championing the cause of business and more specifically the importance of small businesses. Lord Young has been involved in several successful businesses and held multiple government positions where he has tirelessly promoted the importance of… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

CommunityLeader and Benjamin & Jerald have  jointly announced  the launch of cTrade—as an accredited and authorized broker-dealer solution for crowdfunding portals. cTrade was designed to support the online solicitation and sale of securities in today’s regulatory environment, and will be fully prepared to support portals… Read More

May 11, 2013 @ 8:59 am By Korstiaan Zandvliet  |  

Crowdfunding is not only a solution for entrepreneurs who are looking for seed capital, but also for investors who want to control their portfolio and get some Return on Investment. With the prospect of equity-crowdfunding in the U.S. and the blooming equity crowdfunding market in… Read More

May 10, 2013 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding campaign will support a professional stenographer to produce transcripts and provide them to the public and press Freedom of the Press Foundation has announced a crowdfunding campaign to hire a professional court stenographer to produce transcripts of the trial of whistleblower Bradley Manning, scheduled… Read More

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

Petaluma, California based Glasshaus Wine Company is offering a twist on the traditional wine club through a crowdfunded subscription model to finance its yearly production costs. Similar to community a supported agricultural models, supporters become members by purchasing annual wine ‘Shares’ prior to the wine… Read More

May 10, 2013 @ 1:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

If you want to launch a crowdfunding web site using Wordpress there are plugins and themes that can get you up and running quickly.

May 9, 2013 @ 9:59 am By CrowdCheck  |  

Everyone in the startup world knows a good pivot story, right? The wedding planner site that became a peer-to-peer boat rental outfit, the “gay Groupon” that became a fabulously successful retailer. It’s not that unusual for a team to find that their original concept just isn’t going… Read More

May 8, 2013 @ 10:56 pm By Knowledge@Wharton  |  

The campaign to front a movie based on the cult television show “Veronica Mars” through crowdfunding broke records for the fastest project ever to raise $1 million on Kickstarter. It was the website’s biggest film project so far, and it has the most backers of… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 3:10 pm By Paid Content  |  

When the NPR show Planet Money wanted to put together a project about the economic life-cycle of a T-shirt, Kickstarter seemed like the natural approach — and it showed how much crowdfunding has in common with public media. When the reporting team at Planet Money — a… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 7:17 am By Entrepreneur  |  

You have a standout idea for a new product but need to raise money for it. So, you wonder whether you should consider a campaign on the popular crowdfunding site Kickstarter. After all, Kickstarter’s results have been impressive. Since it was launched in 2009, about four million people… Read More

May 5, 2013 @ 4:19 am By VentureBeat  |  

Are would-be entrepreneurs letting the funding-equals-success myth stand between them and true success? Too many startup founders crave the validation of big-name investors and end up buying into the idea that getting venture capital somehow means their business has a better shot. I became an… Read More

May 4, 2013 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunded on Kickstarter in May of last year, the Power Pot is migrating to become a successful post crowdfund business.  The Power Pot crowdfunding campaign had an original goal of raising $50,000 but more than doubled that by generating over $126,000 to finance the project…. Read More

April 30, 2013 @ 8:50 pm By PandoDaily  |  

Pop-quiz: Name an organization funded by users’ contributions who receive cheap swag in return. Is it the latest hot new Kickstarter? Nope, it’s National Public Radio. Well, actually in this case, it’s both. Instead of turning to a phone-a-thon to fund its latest Planet Money… Read More

April 29, 2013 @ 9:04 pm By GameZone  |  

After reaching more than $2 million in crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the Star Citizen developer kept donations open via its Roberts Space Industries website. It now has a pool of $9 million from both sources combined. That’s an increase of $1 million since mid-February. Star Citizen… Read More

April 29, 2013 @ 8:20 am By The New York Times  |  

Around 10 p.m. on a recent Friday night, roughly 500 people at the Dog and Duck Pub in Austin gathered around a man holding an iPad. The man was Rob Thomas, the creator of the cult-hit television series “Veronica Mars,” and he was staring at… Read More

April 28, 2013 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

With 26 days left to go on his Kickstarter crowdfunfunding campaign, Zach Braff’s film project “Wish I Was Here” surpassed their crowdfunding goal.  The original target was to raise $2Million and as of this morning the total stands at well over $2.1 Million supported by… Read More

April 27, 2013 @ 12:51 pm By TechCrunch  |  

Sites like Kickstarter have been used to crowdfund a wide range of projects, but I don’t think they’ve ever done what Synergist is attempting today — they’ve never crowdfunded themselves. The site was founded by 17-year-old Jared Kleinert, who described Synergist as a mix of… Read More

April 27, 2013 @ 8:09 am By JD Alois  |  

In an interesting dissertation authored by Alexey Moisseyev from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, College of Business Administration, he tackles an ongoing assumption pertaining to crowdfunding success.  His research on crowdfunding, titled  EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON CROWDFUNDING PROJECT RESULTS, tackles these assumptions head on… Read More