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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

April 27, 2013 @ 4:24 am By WFUV  |  

An online fundraising site makes it possible for NYC students to catch a Broadway show Forty New York City high school students are going to Alan Cumming’s one-man “Macbeth” on Broadway thanks to the kindness of strangers. English teacher Eric Jordan of Frederick Douglass Academy… Read More

April 26, 2013 @ 9:04 am By Credit.com  |  

You want to start a small business or launch a project, but small business bankers won’t give you the time of day. And there’s no way you can raise the kind of money you need from friends and family. Are you doomed to fail before you even… Read More

April 26, 2013 @ 6:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Joseph Barisonzi, CEO of CommunityLeader, Inc. announced today that the company has secured the capital resources to provide financing for the development and launch of qualified crowdfunding portals. “Our complete portal solution provides a community-focused business professional or organization everything they need to launch a… Read More

April 25, 2013 @ 6:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

BancBox, a leading payment services provider, announces today the public launch of BancBox Crowd, the first independent escrow service for equity, debt and revenue share crowdfunding portals. Additionally, the company is announcing partnerships with leading crowdfund investing services 99Funding, SoMoLend, and Localstake. “The services provided by… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 5:13 pm By One Million by One Million  |  

In April 2013, CrowdFunding is not yet legal in America. In the upcoming years, it will become so. This posts reflects on changes we may anticipate once this change occurs. Mercantile capitalism has led us to great wealth creation. It has also led us to… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 8:04 am By The Escapist  |  

Chris Roberts’ Star Citizen Kickstarter has raised over $8 million, and fans continue to jump in, despite the game being over a year away from release. “I can make the same game for a fifth of the revenue [of a AAA title], a fifth of… Read More

April 23, 2013 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The TABB Group recently published a research report entitled, Capital Reformation: Alternative Financing and the Fate of Intermediaries,  part of this report discussed the emerging industry of crowdfunding and its impact on the finance industry in general. “Wall Street is No Longer a Protected Class”… Read More

April 22, 2013 @ 8:27 am By Huffington Post  |  

If you’re doing it right, it’s the toughest job you’ll ever take on. You’ll feel anxious, elated, irritated, grateful, frustrated, righteous and exhausted. You’ll spend double shifts at the computer, Facebooking, Tweeting, sending out news releases and answering backer’s queries. There will be hair pulling,… Read More

April 21, 2013 @ 7:17 am By The Dispatch  |  

Greenland’s ice sheet is melting fast, and Jason Box can’t wait for a government research grant to get him there. To fund his 24th expedition, Box, a climatologist at the Geologic Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen, is trying something new.Crowdfunding. Box, who had… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 1:08 am By PandoDaily  |  

Welcome to a new era of crowdfunding, where the “crowd” part is more important than the “funding.” Before “smartwatch” became a household term, the makers of the Pebble watch had been rejected, repeatedly, by investors. When the project’s Kickstarter campaign exploded, VCs were suddenly desperate… Read More

April 19, 2013 @ 1:41 pm By Forbes  |  

I have a rock and roll band. It’s called Black Hi-Lighter. Right now, we’re halfway through a rite of passage: the Kickstarter campaign. The first rule of how not to fail at Kickstarter is: Please pledge your support! Or, in other words, start shameless. Ours is a… Read More

April 17, 2013 @ 5:27 pm By Village Voice  |  

Howdy Fan, Over the past five years my band has built up a modest fan base that largely includes all the wonderful people we have met in the process, and is bankrolled mostly by our three day jobs. We just released our second album on… Read More

April 17, 2013 @ 7:47 am By The Calgary Herald  |  

There is a fundamental shift in how companies are expected to engage their target audiences, and the majority of organizations aren’t connecting or engaging Millennials. Why is this important? By 2014, 36 percent of the workforce will be comprised of this generation and by 2020,… Read More

April 11, 2013 @ 11:57 pm By Ryan Caldbeck  |  

At CircleUp, an equity crowdfunding site, we accept fewer than 2% of the companies who apply to raise capital on our platform. While there are a myriad of reasons why we pass on companies, one that always pokes its head up is valuation—that is, we are pessimistic that… Read More

April 11, 2013 @ 9:12 am By Turnstyle News  |  

Last April, I took up running again after an absence of over 15 years. Turns out I’m not nearly as fast as I used to be. Still, a month ago I decided to run a half marathon to raise money for rescue animals and learned exactly why… Read More

April 9, 2013 @ 4:13 pm By NBC Chicago  |  

Kickstarter-mania has officially come to the City of Chicago. World Business Chicago and the mayor’s office has announced Tuesday morning they plan to team up to form Seed Chicago, “Chicago’s first curated Kickstarter page which will use crowdfunding to grow businesses and create jobs in… Read More

April 9, 2013 @ 4:25 am By Gamasutra  |  

It was a small story we ran just before GDC that kind of flew under the radar, so you’d all be forgiven (minus Kris, who authored the thing) for missing that a game just got funded through equity crowdfunding. That is to say, rather than through… Read More

April 8, 2013 @ 10:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, has surpassed their stated $1 Million goal on Kickstarter by raising just shy of $2 Million via support from over 22,000 backers.  This comes soon after the most money raised by a video game was announced as Torment: Tides of… Read More