Massolution Research on Crowdfunding Market – Grows 81% in 2012
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...
View ArticleThe $5.1 Billion Future Of Crowdfunding Is More Than Kickstarter
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....
View ArticleCrowdfunding’s Latest Invasion: Real Estate
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...
View ArticleCrowdIt Announces Nine More Projects Submitted for $10,000 Prize
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...
View ArticleCrowdfunder, West Park Capital Announce Alliance
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...
View ArticleOuya Raises $15 Million Led by Kleiner Perkins
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,...
View ArticleOSC To Host Roundtable On Small Business Investment
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...
View ArticleOnline startups are rallying citizens to revamp their neighbourhoods
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...
View ArticleDocumentary About Severed Leg On Kickstarter
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...
View ArticleFundersClub Nets $1.1M Investment In Y Combinator Startups
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...
View ArticleCrowdfunded Loans Via Kiva City Newark Announced By Cory Booker
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...
View ArticleRockethub Campaign Seeks To Funnel Porn Money To Nonprofits & Causes
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....
View ArticleSEC Asks For Public Comment On Accredited Investor Definition
Do you think the definition of “accredited investor” is flawed? Do you fail to see how net worth and yearly salary has a direct tie to the sophistication of an investor? Are you of the opinion that too...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Road Map Founder Ruth Hedges Interviewed (Video)
Ruth Hedges, Founder and CEO of Funding Roadmap and one of the early investment crowdfunding advocates, is interviewed by Devin Thorpe – a frequent Forbes contributor who covers “impact investing”....
View ArticleCureCancerStarter Launched to Raise Funds to Fight Cancer
CureCancerStarter, a 501c3 nonprofit, launched today. The site will connect cancer patients, their friends and family to cancer researchers. The site features cancer research from the University of...
View ArticleCommissioner Stein On Equity Crowdfunding, Proposed Rules
Here are Commissioner Kara M. Stein’s comments on proposed rules for equity crowdfunding. I’d like to echo my fellow Commissioners in thanking the staff. The proposing release before us today reflects...
View ArticleCaptive Media Raises Over £250K For Interactive Urinals
Captive Media is a startup aimed at bringing the “world’s first contact-free, networked, interactive washroom media system” to market. In a nutshell, they make an interactive urinal system. The group...
View ArticleNarrative Life-Logging Camera (Formerly Memoto) Runs Into Production Issues,...
Narrative (formerly Memoto) crowdfunded over $500,000 on Kickstarter for their small form factor life-logging camera last year. The campaign ended in November of 2012. The team is having production...
View ArticleInterview with Oliver Gajda of the European Crowdfunding Network (Video)
Oliver Gajda, a Co-Founder and President of the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) was interviewed earlier this month by Good Morning Crowdfunding. Gajda has been a tireless champion of crowdfunding...
View ArticleLima “Brain of Your Devices” Delays Delivery Until Spring
Lima, marketed as the “Brain of Your Devices” has announced a shipping delay which has pushed back delivery for all supporters until sometime next Spring. Lima, which was originally called “Plug” but...
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