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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

December 5, 2012 @ 10:34 am By Wired.co.uk  |  

To level the playing field against the enormous warrior Goliath, biblical hero David had a sling and five stones. To level the playing field against global internet powerhouse Facebook, a persistent group of Austrian law students have a crowdfunding website. The site, crowd4privacy.org, is where the… Read More

November 28, 2012 @ 8:01 pm By Craig Asano, NCFA Canada  |  

I recently had the pleasure of connecting with Alex Pavlovic , CEO and Co-founder of Taskforce-1 Industries Ltd., a Vancouver based web solutions company currently focused on delivering a 100% open source SaaS white label multiverse crowdfunding platform called THRINACIA. Thrinacia is the first 100% Open Source SaaS White… Read More

November 1, 2012 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

This is a common theme of discussion at CrowdfundInsider.  The forthcoming launch of Crowdfunding scheduled for 2013 and how exactly this will impact the funding of Entrepreneurs and Economic growth.  This movement without a doubt has the potential to disrupt traditional forms of finance for… Read More