Tagged: data

September 12, 2013 @ 4:40 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Today business insurance provider Hiscox released their fifth annual DNA Of An Entrepreneur report. The eDNA report is a global annual study of 3,000 owners or partners in small and medium-sized businesses in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Spain,… Read More

May 10, 2013 @ 9:06 am By MIT Technology Review  |  

Software developer Federico Zannier has data-mined himself, and now he’s raising money on Kickstarter to build an iPhone app and Chrome browser extension so that others can easily do the same. Fork over $2 to the campaign and you get a day’s worth of the 1.5 gigabytes… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 3:46 pm By Wired  |  

Kickstarter is doing well. Project creators have launched 38,000 successful undertakings for $441 million in pledges since its launch four years ago. And it’s only expected to grow. So it’s no wonder that crowdfunding clones, imitators, and innovators are popping up like weeds. From the… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 8:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google’s stake in Lending Club could signal future dominance of P2P and P2B lending in the crowdfunding space.

April 26, 2013 @ 7:23 am By Business2Community  |  

In its purest form, crowdfunding creates options for companies and organizations looking for ways to raise capital — a significant variable in an economy with close to 8 percent unemployment and slow GDP growth. According to the Mass Solution Crowdfunding Industry Report, these campaigns raised $2.7… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 5:16 pm By Fast Company  |  

Florida has the U.S.’s second-highest rate of new business production, it ranks high on Fundable’s VC rankings, and Startup America says it’s the No. 3 state for annual revenue per startup, with $1.2 million. Here’s what else helped it hit No. 1: 1. Ambition has a… 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

November 2, 2012 @ 11:26 am By Victoria Silchenko  |  

Stephen Hawking once said: “I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.” Bold statement. But as I’ve been working on organizing the upcoming Next Generation and Global CrowdFunding Forum which is set to be on November 16th here… Read More