Tagged: china

February 2, 2014 @ 11:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Shanghai-based video game development shop Spicy Horse and leader American McGee are fairly well known in the world of crowdfunding. The outfit has three Kickstarter campaigns under its belt. Two have succeeded while funding for a third was cancelled. The first of these projects to… Read More

January 16, 2014 @ 9:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

For every Pebble or Ouya there are hundreds of smaller Kickstarter projects that fight to be recognized and garner funding. One such campaign launched this week for Yes Man Watches, watches that aim to provide a reminder to relax. Yes Man isn’t used in the… Read More

January 15, 2014 @ 11:11 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Edit: two cards to rule them all. Coin aims to be the “one card to rule them all,” a credit-card-sized device that can store info from and act as any credit or debit card in the owner’s wallet. The associated crowdfunding campaign is still active… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 9:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

BrewDog is in the midst of an extremely aggressive period of growth now that the Scottish brewery has managed to raise millions of euros via equity crowdfunding raises. The latest expansion project for the brewery is a BrewDog bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo,… Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tech is very hot in the crowdfunding world these days.  Devices like the ōllo clip, Pebble Smartwatch and Ouya game console have proven the power of crowdfunding a product – from concept to shipped reality.  Many successful hardware products are conceived and engineered in the… Read More

June 8, 2013 @ 9:55 am By Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal  |  

When Spark Devices CEO Zach Supalla launched the company’s first Kickstarter crowdfunding round in November, the campaign failed. Fundraising fell $120,000 short of the startup’s $250,000 goal. About five months later — with a new, simpler product — the Minneapolis-based company began a second round of fundraising,… Read More

June 7, 2013 @ 8:15 am By Kristin Voinovich  |  

In mid – May a party was held in Shanghai, China, at the Hult International Business School.  The event was held in recognition of the launch of SeedAsia – the first Pan Asia equity crowdfunding platform to service the region. Many prominent business leaders were… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 4:15 am By Shanghaiist  |  

A group of Hong Kong students are raising money online to run full-page adverts opposing the “mainlandisation of HK universities”, according to their Facebook page. The campaign comes just over a year after the Apple Daily ran a full-page advert attacking mainland “locusts” for swarming… Read More

May 5, 2013 @ 10:18 am By China Daily  |  

Selling your dreams to people who have don’t even know you? That’s exactly what’s happening in the Internet age. When Jia Yuhao, the owner of a hostel, thought about furnishing his hostel last year, he posted a fund-raising advertisement on demohour.com. Two months later, he… Read More

April 22, 2013 @ 2:02 pm By China Daily  |  

Small strides help wannabe cafe bosses realize big dreams Owning a charming little cafe/bar/bistro that serves coffee has always been a fantasy in the largely tea-drinking China for decades, especially after the first cup of green-mermaid-labeled coffee made its debut in the bustling metropolises. But… Read More

April 13, 2013 @ 2:09 am By Asian Correspondent  |  

A sub-category in film genre by format, shorts were never unheard-of in Mainland China. However, it was not until late 2010 that they suddenly gained millions of Chinese fans. The watershed film is Old Boys, a 42-minute short about unfulfilled dreams and aspirations as people grow old… Read More

February 7, 2013 @ 3:26 pm By Guardian.co.uk  |  

A new platform launched by internet giant Tencent enables social enterprises in China to diversify their funding streams and reach vast audiences When the Chinese social enterprise La La Shou decided to create a club and host an annual conference for its beneficiaries, it turned… Read More

January 17, 2013 @ 11:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yooli, China’s crowdfunding services website, and FICO (NYSE: FICO), the leading provider of analytics and decision management technology, today jointly announced that Yooli has selected FICO risk management technology as a core element of Yooli’s risk management infrastructure. At the signing ceremony held in Beijing, Mr. Yannan Liu , president of Yooli… Read More

November 18, 2012 @ 2:15 pm By Global Times  |  

Xiang Yao, who raised money for her cancer treatment by selling her comic books at Demohour, passed away on Friday. Photo: Courtesy of Xiang Yao   When high school student Zhang Xiaoyi designed software that allowed a user to control a Macbook laptop simply by gesturing… Read More

November 14, 2012 @ 5:51 am By China Daily  |  

A crowd-funding website, Demohour, helps make dreams come true by helping entrepreneurs raise money, a hundred yuan at a time, Xu Jingxi reports in Guangzhou. When He Feng was a mathematics freshman at Swarthmore College in the United States, a group of warm-hearted old people… Read More

November 10, 2012 @ 8:57 am By CaixinOnline  |  

(Beijing) – Investing like an angel now costs no more than an average duck dinner in Beijing. The force driving China’s growing ranks of small-scale angel investors are crowdfunding websites, which offer individuals access to business financing pools for as little as 100 yuan each…. Read More

October 25, 2012 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

It often seems that in order to start a successful business in China you have to have the right guanxi to gain the patronage necessary to fund your dreams. Many of China’s most successful firms owe their success to good relations with the government. Chinese… Read More