Tagged: barry james

December 10, 2013 @ 12:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

In two public letters the UK based Social Foundation and the Crowdfunding Centre openly pose the question, “Is the Government Guilty of Financial Discrimination?” Both letters, reproduced in their entirety below, question  the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) “rush to regulate” the quickly growing crowdfunding industry…. Read More

October 31, 2013 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Barry James is founding editor at The Crowdfunding Centre and the founder and director of The Social Foundation, an organization that aims toward “providing leadership towards the new open social economy via research, education and policy development.” We recently caught up with James to discuss… Read More

October 19, 2013 @ 11:29 am By Charles Luzar  |  

UK Crowdfunding Day is coming up, scheduled for November 1st at the Royal Geographical Society in London. Their home page lists “Prominent UK Crowdfunding Organisations and Supporters,” of which various industry participants are listed. At one point Kickstarter was included on that list. Not anymore…. Read More

February 5, 2013 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Coming from the pages of RealBusiness in the UK, Barry James has composed an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy PM Nick Clegg.  You may read the letter in its entirety here but the gist of his premise is the time is… Read More