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| Feb 20, 2016 | 4 reasons you should believe the fintech hype | Over the past year, the fintech industry has transformed from a hypothetical hotspot to an actual one.
Fintech’s obituary has been written many times, but it’s thriving. In 2012, the sector was simply called “financial innovation” or “finan... |
| Feb 20, 2016 | 4 reasons you should believe the fintech hype | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Over the past year, the fintech industry has tran... |
| Nov 2, 2015 | SEC Votes to Implement Crowdfunding Portion of JOBS Act, But How Useful Will it Be? | During its Open Meeting on Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to implement Title III of the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act). After a three-and-a-half year wait, startups eager to raise capital through ... |
| Oct 22, 2015 | Crowdsourcing: How to Get the Best Global Talent to Work for Your Startup | Startups approach their operations with one eye on controlling their overhead and another on business growth and profits. In this scenario, attracting top-notch talent to work for their startups looks like a distant dream for most. All busi... |
| Oct 9, 2015 | The Future of Crowdfunding | Crowdfunding as a fundraising method has had tremendous momentum in recent years, with multiple platforms competing for the multi-billion dollar pie. What does the future hold?
Crowdfunding as alternative finance has been on the rise for t... |
| Jul 9, 2015 | Tips on running a successful Kickstarter campaign | When people decide to start new ventures, the traditional ways of obtaining financing have typically involved asking friends or family for money, using savings or credit cards. Some entrepreneurs may opt to obtain financing via venture capi... |
| Jun 19, 2015 | Reg A + Gives Women And Minority Founders Access To Startup Capital | Ramona Ortega Contributor
Ramona Ortega is the Founder of Mi Dinero Mi Futuro, a financial planning tech startup.
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The Women’s March also should be a wake up call for the tech industry on diversity issues
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| May 14, 2015 | Angel Investors Still Awaiting the Impact from Equity Crowdfunding | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
After reading that angels would be the No. 1 losers due to the explosive growth of crowdfunding, angels like me have been keeping a wary eye on equity crowdfunding. Some repor... |
| Mar 31, 2015 | Crowdfunding Nearly Tripled Last Year, Becoming a $16 Billion Industry | March 31, 2015 2 min read
If crowdfunding’s been hot for awhile, last year, it was damn near on fire.
In 2014, companies and individuals across the globe raised $16.2 billion through crowdfunding, according to a report released today by ind... |
| Mar 11, 2015 | Crowdfunding is great — but the taxes suck | The guy who raised $70,000 on Kickstarter to make a potato salad is going to be writing a hefty check to the Internal Revenue Service this year if he hasn’t already — for upwards of $21,000, according to TaxFoundation.org.
That’s because an... |
| Jun 11, 2014 | From Crowd to Factory, Inventalator Aims to Simplify Product Creation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The process of taking an idea from a scribble on a napkin to a product on store shelves can be protracted, grueling, and expensive. Milwaukee-based Inventalator aims to make p... |
| May 8, 2014 | Equity Crowdfunding Needs Educated Investors | Crowdfunding is hopelessly dependent on traditional funding sectors to educate a new generation of investors and fully develop the industry.
The alternative funding industry values its’ own innovative and somewhat ‘rebellious’ character – t... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | Crowdfunding: 8 things healthcare entrepreneurs and investors should keep in mind | A few words on equity crowdfunding: There’s a lot of trepidation associated with this type of crowdfunding, particularly with what happens after the fundraise — especially when it comes time to approach institutional investors. Some investo... |
| Jan 29, 2014 | 3 things to expect from the burgeoning hardware startup space in 2014 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Nick is CEO and co-founder of Tile, the tiny Bluetooth Low Energy finder device for keeping track of the small, or big, items in life.
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| Jan 29, 2014 | 3 things to expect from the burgeoning hardware startup space in 2014 | Nick is CEO and co-founder of Tile, the tiny Bluetooth Low Energy finder device for keeping track of the small, or big, items in life.
In the past year, we’ve seen the “Internet of Things” era come to life, with connected devices and hardwa... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | Crowdtilt raises $23M to turn crowdfunding into a daily habit | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Crowdtilt is trying to turn crowdfunding into a d... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | Crowdtilt raises $23M to turn crowdfunding into a daily habit | Crowdtilt is trying to turn crowdfunding into a daily occurrence.
The startup has just raised $23 million to expand its vision and platform for crowdfunding around the world, making the technology more accessible to a larger group of people... |
| Nov 14, 2013 | How enterprises use crowdsourcing (infographic) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As enterprises generate increasingly large mounta... |
| Nov 14, 2013 | How enterprises use crowdsourcing (infographic) | As enterprises generate increasingly large mountains of data, they often turn to powerful software to make sense of it all.
But big data tools aren’t always enough; some tasks require actual human input.
CrowdFlower, like Amazon Mechanical ... |
| Oct 18, 2013 | WePay’s API pays off, handles 648% more crowdfunding volume than last year | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When Occupy Wall Street decided to accept donatio... |
| Oct 18, 2013 | WePay’s API pays off, handles 648% more crowdfunding volume than last year | When Occupy Wall Street decided to accept donations, the eclectic group of protestors turned to crowdfunding service WePay, which helped Occupy raise over $1 million with its donation tool across hundreds of campaigns.
But WePay isn’t inter... |
| Oct 10, 2013 | 10 Top Crowdfunding Websites | October 10, 2013 6 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
In her book Cash From the Crowd, Sally Outlaw, founder and CEO of crowdfunding website peerbackers, reveals the secrets of funding your business with... |
| Aug 7, 2013 | How to use Direct Public Offerings to raise funds | People's Community Market gets $650,000 from nearly 200 non-accredited investors
Thanks to the JOBS Act, which essentially provides a framework for equity-crowdfunding, there's a growing excitement among startups that an untapped base of po... |
| May 22, 2013 | 5 ways the booming crowdfunding ecosystem is changing in 2013 | Carl Esposti is CEO of crowdsourcing advisory firm massolution.
If you think that participating in crowdfunding simply means investing in smaller companies that launch games and devices on Kickstarter, think again. With crowdfunding volumes... |
| May 22, 2013 | 5 ways the booming crowdfunding ecosystem is changing in 2013 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Carl Esposti is CEO of crowdsourcing advisory fir... |
| May 17, 2013 | The crowdfunding floodgates are (kind of) open. Now another healthcare investing portal is jumping in | In its announcement, VentureHealth said it already raised $875,000 as part of a series B for cryoablation startup Channel Medsystems.
These platforms join a collection of other online platforms for accredited investors that include CircleUp... |
| Apr 29, 2013 | The state of the crowdfunding industry: stronger than ever | This is a guest post by Elizabeth Smith Kulik, the co-founder and CEO of crowdfunding incubator ProHatch.
Crowdfunding has once again become a hot topic in the financial world, given the recent one-year anniversary of the JOBS Act on April ... |
| Apr 9, 2013 | New World of Crowdfunding Waits as SEC Struggles to Complete its Job | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Almost exactly one year ago, a new age for entrepreneurs and investors was supposed to have begun.
On April 5, 2012, President Barack Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Startup Bu... |
| Apr 8, 2013 | Crowdfunding nearly doubled last year with 1M successful campaigns | Updated with equity-based growth information.
Crowdfunding is getting so much bigger than Kickstarter. Last year alone, it generated 1 million successful campaigns and $2.7 billion across the globe.
Research firm Massolution gathered that d... |
| Apr 8, 2013 | Crowdfunding nearly doubled last year with 1M successful campaigns | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Updated with equity-based growth information.
Crowdfunding is getting so much bigger than Kickstarter. Last year alone, it generated 1 ... |
| Feb 20, 2013 | Crowd Funding: Also A Method For Proving Marketability To Investors | As crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter continue to be a rising trend in content production, there's an important lesson that both successful and failed attempts can teach us all. That lesson is that the turnout for such a project tells the ... |
| Feb 13, 2013 | Crowdfunding university research and tech commercialization: 6 sites that are doing it | uStartups: Launched last fall by the National Council of Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2), uStartups’ goal is to help university science projects continue when other funding sources have dried up. Unlike other crowdfunding sites, resea... |
| Jan 8, 2013 | Kickstarter’s best of 2012: 2.2M backers, $319M raised, 18K projects funded | Kickstarter released its “best of” list for 2012, and the numbers are impressive: 2.24 million people funded at least one project and pledged a total of $319 million. That’s more than $600 per minute over the course of the year, with 18,109... |
| Jan 8, 2013 | Kickstarter’s best of 2012: 2.2M backers, $319M raised, 18K projects funded | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kickstarter released its “best of” list for 2012, and the numbers are impressive: 2.24 million people funded at least one project and p... |
| Dec 21, 2012 | For Startups, 2012 Swung From Consumers To The Enterprise | For consumer-oriented startups, 2012 came in like a lion, but left like a whimpering lamb. As the year went on, startups that target the consumer market had an increasingly hard time getting funded.
Blame Facebook. Blame Groupon and Zynga. ... |
| Oct 4, 2012 | Rock The Post And CrowdHut Are Trying To Solve Two Of Crowdfunding’s Biggest Pain Points | Entrepreneurship is one of the few non-partisan issues these days. As a potential engine of job creation, both sides tend to idealize startups and SMBs as the cure-all for a laconic economy and unemployment. Of course, to grow and create th... |
| Sep 18, 2012 | Crowdfunding: risky but rewarding | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Last month, Amazon pulled the plug on the e-book ... |
| Jun 6, 2012 | Kickstarter Competitor Indiegogo Raises $15 M., Staffing Up in New York | Mr. Rubin. (Photo: Twitter)
Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo just raised $15 million from venture capital investors in order to staff up, build out and take on Kickstarter and 400 other competitors (including one crowdfunding platform that l... |
| May 8, 2012 | Crowdfunding: $1.5B Raised, 1M Campaigns Funded In 2011; Figures Set To Double In 2012 | Well, it’s been quite a year already for the crowdfunding industry. With the JOBS Act becoming law, the tech industry (and the economy at large) are headed for some big changes. Namely, the legalization of crowdfunding in startups for non-a... |
| May 8, 2012 | massolution Releases First Crowdfunding Industry Report | Research firm massolution, a business unit of Crowdsourcing LLC which specializes in crowdsourcing and crowdfunding solutions, released its first Crowdfunding Industry Report.
Massolution identifies, defines and tracks the market growth and... |
| Apr 27, 2012 | Young People Crowdsource Recommendations For United Nations Agency | VENTURES AFRICA – Imagine a crowd converging to brainstorm ideas on how to tackle an issue. Except, this crowd do not meet physically- they converge online, spread across different locations. This is what crowdsourcing is about. It is a ver... |
| Apr 23, 2012 | Crowdcube Receives Accreditation by CAPS Program | Crowdcube, an Exeter, UK-based crowdfunding platform, recently received an accreditation by the Crowdfunding Accreditation for Platform Standards (CAPS) program.
CAPS is an initiative by Crowdsourcing.org designed to promote the adoption of... |
| Apr 5, 2012 | In 9 Months, Anyone Can Invest in a Startup | (flickr.com/portland_mike)
Do you feel like there are a lot of startups? We feel like there are a lot of startups. The JOBS Act, an amalgamation of six bills that passed through Congress, is likely going to make even more startups, thanks t... |
| Apr 5, 2012 | With JOBS Act Becoming Law, Crowdfunding Platforms Look To Create Self-Regulatory Body | Today, President Obama signs the JOBS Act into law, legalizing crowdfunding in startups by non-accredited investors, so that anyone and their mother can invest. The new law stipulates that entrepreneurs can now raise money from any and all,... |
| Mar 25, 2012 | JOBS Act - who's for it and who's against it? | Will the bill spur new jobs the way proponents say it will?
The Jump-start Our Business Start-ups (or JOBS) Act has already passed the House and the Senate. Now, all that has to happen is the House needs to pass the Senate revisions, which ... |
| Mar 2, 2012 | Crowdsourcing gaining momentum in Africa | By Munya Chiura
This article is cross-posted from Techzim.co.zw.
Crowdsourcing in recent years has gained significant traction around the globe. The premise behind it is the concept of maximizing or utilising masses of individuals to solve ... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Scottish Startup Sensewhere Promises Accurate Indoor Location-Tracking | As location gradually becomes more important to the on-the-go consumer, what with daily deals, check-in coupons, and local promotions, so that consumer’s fine location becomes more important to merchants. GPS and wi-fi can only get you so f... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | E.U. Sets 2013 Deadline for Open Source Public Data Mining Portal | Sticking with her original deadline announced last year, European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes told a European interoperability standards forum yesterday that a public portal for access to government and public data from across th... |
| Apr 8, 2011 | Fans are getting their say in video games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In the award-winning video game BioShock, one of the best games of 2007, there was a bar in the game called Sinclair Spirits, named aft... |
| Apr 8, 2011 | Fans are getting their say in video games | In the award-winning video game BioShock, one of the best games of 2007, there was a bar in the game called Sinclair Spirits, named after Scott Sinclair, a staffer of game developer Irrational Games. Now, in the next installment of the vide... |
| Crowdfunding university research and tech commercialization: 6 sites that are doing it | A piece in Forbes this week calls attention to a recent trend in technology commercialization at universities: the use of crowdfunding.
The article focused on a collaboration between the University of Utah’s Technology Commercialization Off... |
| 12 big brands & celebrities that crowdsourced in 2012 | When people think of crowdsourcing, they often think of it as a tool for entrepreneurs and small businesses – and they’re right. Small business users have powered explosive growth of crowdsourcing services in the last 5 years (from stock ph... |
| The crowdfunding floodgates are (kind of) open. Now another healthcare investing portal is jumping in | It’s been just over one year since the JOBS Act was passed, which makes equity- and debt-based crowdfunding legal for accredited and nonaccredited investors. Although the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to finalize and imple... |
| Financiamento coletivo: When You Wish traz ao Brasil modelo diferenciado de crowdfunding | A When You Wish, plataforma virtual de financiamento público de projetos e causas, designou um country manager para dirigir as operações locais no Brasil. Fundada em 2011 por David Harvilicz, a startup aposta no país como porta de entrada p... |
| Crowdsourcing, co-criação e colaboração em geral também são customer development? Venha debater no palco | Há uns dias, conversei com a Marina Miranda (uma das inovadoras que me ajudou a realizar o primeiro Startup Weekend no Brasil) sobre o que as startups tem a ver com a programação da II Conferência Internacional sobre Crowdsourcing, Co-Criaç... |
| Crowdfunding: 8 things healthcare entrepreneurs and investors should keep in mind | Crowdfunding is growing at a pretty frenetic pace based on some startling stats Andrew Dix of Crowded Media Group offered as part of a series of discussions on crowdfunding at the MidAmerica Healthcare Venture Forum this week. About 900 dea... |
| Запущен сервис халяльного краудфандинга | Об этом Rusbase сообщил основатель платформы Хадис Алиев (ранее окончил РУДН и занимался другими стартапами). По его словам, основная цель проекта — «обеспечить халяльные проекты халяльными деньгами», так как венчурные инвесторы редко вклад... |
| В 2012 году краудфандеры собрали $2,7 млрд | В 2012 году краудфандеры собрали $2,7 млрд
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Алексей Харченко
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В прошлом году краудфандеры собрали на свои проекты более $2,7 млрд, что на 81% больше, чем в 2011 году, говорится в исследовании компании Massolution, в... |
