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August 16, 2013 @ 10:12 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Two Colorado State University grads are seeking $15,000 in funding via Rockethub. The goal: finalize the details of and launch Benevidz.com, a live cam porn web site with a very interesting aim. Benevidz wants to capture a slice of an estimated $5 billion in yearly… Read More

July 15, 2013 @ 8:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Hopes to Bolster Small Business Growth for Newark, Kiva Partnership to Crowdfund Loans for Small Business, Entrepreneurs. An initiative that brings crowdfunded loans to entrepreneurs struggling to find capital they need to start or expand their small businesses was announced by… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 3:58 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

FundersClub has closed the first fund in their “Accelerate Series.” The fund offered early-stage investment opportunities in companies participating in the Winter 2013 class of Y Combinator. This new fund gave accredited investors the sought-after opportunity to invest in startups that have benefited from selection… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 9:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Finders Keepers is a documentary by Ed Cunningham, producer of the Oscar winning documentary Undefeated. The film follows the strange tale of Shannon Whisnant, a man who bought a smoker in a storage auction in 2007 and found a severed, mummified human leg in it…. Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 8:24 am By The Economist  |  

NAMES, wedding dates and declarations of love cover the Luchtsingel, a new pedestrian walkway straddling a busy main road in central Rotterdam, a Dutch city. Asked by a website to help fund the project, locals paid €25 ($32) each for the right to etch a… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 9:03 am By Advisor.ca  |  

The OSC will hold a roundtable on June 11, 2013 to discuss ways investors can help start-ups and small businesses raise money in Canada. It wants to consider how companies can do this by issuing securities without first having to prepare and file a prospectus…. Read More

May 9, 2013 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter darling raised over $8 Million crowdfunding, now they are raising more funds in a new funding round lead by Venture Capital legend Kleiner Perkins including the Mayfield Fund, NVIDIA, Shasta Ventures and Occam Partners Video game startup OUYA today announced $15 million in new… Read More

April 25, 2013 @ 7:32 am By JD Alois  |  

LA based crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder,  and WestPark Capital, Inc. have announced a strategic alliance to help mobilize capital for small and medium businesses.  Crowdfunder is an online business social network with approximately 19,000 users and a crowdfunding platform for raising capital.  WestPark Capital is a… Read More

April 23, 2013 @ 3:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdIt today announced nine more project submissions to its crowdfunding site, set to fully launch on June 4. Project submissions on CrowdIt range from entrepreneurial ventures to non-profit ambitions. These “Dreamers” will be eligible to participate in CrowdIt’s launch competition, where the project that raises the… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 1:32 am By Forbes  |  

Crowdfunding is rapidly changing the real-estate investment market, offering developers new ways to finance projects, small investors a way in, and the socially conscious an avenue to support their local communities—and their local farms. Here is a rundown of the real-estate crowdfunding firms I think… Read More

April 19, 2013 @ 1:53 pm By Fast Company  |  

The concept of offering a few bucks to help out a project might have started to help your friend’s new album, but new numbers show it’s growing rapidly–and turning into a legitimate form of investment. Crowdfunding is booming. More than 1 million campaigns across 308… Read More

April 8, 2013 @ 6:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding is accelerating at an unprecedented rate and impacting government policy, informing enterprise innovation, and changing the role of financial institutions around the world. Massolution, a research firm specializing in the crowdsourcing and crowdfunding industries, released its annual 2013CF – Crowdfunding Industry Report. After collecting… Read More

April 6, 2013 @ 1:00 am By CBC  |  

There’s a new frontier in this online world of fundraising and it’s within our cities. With shrinking budgets and crumbling infrastructure, some say it’s time to hit the internet to find money to pay for bridges, parks even street lighting. Others worry, that crowdfunding civic… Read More

March 21, 2013 @ 5:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Millennium Trust Company, a firm specializing in the custody of alternative investments and private fund assets, announces it has reached $1 billion in fund assets under custody in less than two years of launching the firm’s Private Fund Custody service. Millennium Trust’s qualified custodian service has also attracted firms… Read More

February 14, 2013 @ 9:59 am By Techcrunch  |  

It’s Valentine’s Day and what better way for a crowdfunding site to show its love for you than release an iOS app? The new app will go live on iTunes shortly and allows users to follow their funded projects and search for new projects from the comfort… Read More

January 17, 2013 @ 9:20 am By Alison Grant, The Plain Dealer  |  

Formal complaints of securities violations in Ohio have fallen sharply in the past five years, but the state’s top securities watchdog says that trend could reverse with the rise of more Internet-based investing. Under a new securities law signed by President Obama last April, companies are… Read More

January 8, 2013 @ 1:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

View the Presentation presented by RocketHub at the Crowdfund Texas event held in Austin on January 8th, 2013.   RocketHub: The Crowdfunding Success Pattern from CrowdfundInsider

December 31, 2012 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

  As the top ten lists start to pore in from every corner of the media world, Crowdfunding will certainly not be spared.  Coming from the Washington Post – doyenne of main stream media – is a list of Top 10 stories for Small Business.  At… Read More

December 13, 2012 @ 11:36 am By iBusinessAngel  |  

I spoke with Darren Westlake, CEO of Crowdcube about their experience of the first 18 months of raising funds for equity stakes via crowdfunding. Our conversation revealed much about what works and what doesn’t work in the world of equity crowdfunding and what the future… Read More

December 5, 2012 @ 3:01 pm By Boston.com  |  

Crowdfunding site Citizinvestor has helped fund its first Boston project, Tech Goes Home, which will give blind students iPads and instruction on how to use them. I first profiled Citizinvestor, which is based in Florida, last month when I profiled new ways cities are investigating funding civic projects, but… Read More