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| Aug 11, 2016 | Could This Digital Canvas Be A Gateway Drug For Art? | |
| May 24, 2016 | 3 Foundational Secrets to Running a Rockstar Crowdfunding Campaign | May 24, 2016 1 min read
Manifesting your dreams by raising money with crowdfunding may feel like magic. To the contrary. Running a successful crowdfunding campaign is absolutely not magic.
Crowdfunding requires a lot of planning and a lot o... |
| May 16, 2015 | 6 Ways to Raise Money for Your Tech Startup | You’ve got a great tech idea; one that you think tons of people could use in their everyday lives. You want to launch your own tech startup but, first, you’ll need to raise the capital to turn your entrepreneurial dream into a reality.
Fort... |
| Oct 27, 2014 | Poland’s InPay Lets Crowdfunders Buy Equity With Bitcoin | Poland-based bitcoin payment solutions provider InPay S.A. has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign that makes it possible to buy company stock with bitcoin.
The company claims to have secured the approval of Poland’s Financial Supervis... |
| Aug 11, 2014 | Assemble Aims to Create Disruptive, Online Chamber of Commerce | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When Kate Catlin, a Venture for America fellow based in Detroit, biked across the country the summer before her freshman year of college, she was struck by how many mom and po... |
| Jul 15, 2014 | Crowdfunded satellite rescue mission becoming frantic as time runs thin | A group of scientists and enthusiasts are undertaking one of the most ambitious and interdisciplinary crowdfunded projects ever attempted: they want to resurrect a long-dead satellite and send it on a close-range flyby of the Moon. The publ... |
| Jun 5, 2014 | Banza Wins Project Startup Live’s Detroit Pitch Competition | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The national spotlight was shining on Detroit’s entrepreneurial ecosystem yesterday as A&E and the crowdfunding website RocketHub were in town for Project Startup Live, a ... |
| May 22, 2014 | NASA tasks citizen scientists with waking up its 1978 satellite | Despite capturing the hearts and minds of geeks everywhere (as well as endorsements from astrophysicist and national treasure Neil deGrasse Tyson), NASA is poor.
That means it doesn’t have the cash to take on really cool and worthwhile proj... |
| Apr 25, 2014 | Scientists Use Crowdfunding To Communicate With Spacecraft ISEE-3 | Aiming to bring a forgotten space probe back to life, masterminds of the Orbiter Image Recovery project Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing have launched a new crowdfunding project on RocketHub called ISEE-3 Reboot Project. Skycorp, along with Sp... |
| Apr 24, 2014 | How to fund your startup: Quick guide to Crowdfunding | I am still asked regularly about what crowdfunding is, whether it is legal, regulated and risky. Here is the Quick Guide to help you decide if it’s right for your startup business. What is it and how does it work?
‘Crowdfunding’ is an incre... |
| Feb 11, 2014 | 12 Sites to Help You Crowdfund Your Dreams | As the global financial crisis crashed the world’s economy, crowdfunding emerged as one of the new ways to fund projects. With the overwhelming popularity of social media, people started using public forums to crowdfund their projects. Crow... |
| Dec 23, 2013 | Detroit Native Returns to the City to Launch Pedicab Startup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Gabby Bryant, 23, is exactly the kind of person Detroit needs to help execute its comeback. She was born and raised in Detroit, but eventually left to study economics and Afri... |
| Dec 18, 2013 | RocketHub & FreshDirect’s “Next Big Food Thing” Ends, Over $70,000 Raised | RocketHub teamed with FreshDirect to launch the FreshDirect “Next Big Food Thing.” The initiative encouraged entrepreneurs and project creators with great ideas in the world of food to launch crowdfunding projects for a chance to win prizes... |
| Oct 10, 2013 | 10 Top Crowdfunding Websites | October 10, 2013 6 min read
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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 16, 2013 | Spira’s High-Tech Running Shoes Get Big Break on “Duck Dynasty” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This might have to be called crowdfunding on steroids: A West Texas startup will today have its product featured in a special on-air segment in between the broadcast of the A&... |
| Aug 14, 2013 | Good news … now you can have webcam sex for charity | 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!
Ever wanted to donate to charity by stripping for... |
| Aug 14, 2013 | Good news … now you can have webcam sex for charity | Ever wanted to donate to charity by stripping for strangers? Me, neither. But now there is a place where those you want to can.
Benedivz debuted its site today where live webcam entertainers broadcast to viewers who buy “helping-handz credi... |
| Aug 13, 2013 | Detroit’s Igniteless Courted by TV, Nears Finals in Walmart Contest | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
We published an article in July about Orlando Robinson, a Detroit entrepreneur who has used tragedies that have affected his family and community as the inspiration to create ... |
| Aug 8, 2013 | How your DNA may write your next drug prescription | If you’re immediately thinking of 23andMe, hear these guys out. Rosenfeld insists that Genome Liberty’s tests will deliver only actionably information that would help consumers make smart choices, where other kinds of mail-in tests deliver ... |
| May 22, 2013 | Looking to Raise Capital? Exhaust All Your Options. | May 22, 2013 3 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Editor’s Note: YoungEntrepreneur’s Ask the Expert column seeks to answer questions about everything from starting a business to growth strategies. To fol... |
| Feb 14, 2013 | Crowdfunding Verticals: No Need For Niche | As we collectively enjoy the beginning stages of the crowdfunding movement, the space is dominated by general interest platforms. Kickstarter, Indiegogo and Rockethub have become the “big three” of crowdfunding in the absence of Title III.
... |
| 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 10, 2013 | The Wisdom of Crowdfunding | By L.A. LOREK
Founder Silicon Hills News
Crowdfunding will lead to an explosion in entrepreneurship, innovation and job creation in the U.S., according to its advocates.
“We’ll go from 60,000 angel investors to six million angel investors o... |
| Jan 9, 2013 | RocketHub Seeks to Add Equity-based Fundraising for Startups | Perks-based crowdfunding is nothing new, said Brian Meece, co-founder of Rockethub.
In 1885, a fundraising effort to buy a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty raised $102,000 from more than 120,000 contributors.
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of... |
| Jan 2, 2013 | Crowdfunding Campaigns For Your 2013 New Year’s Resolution | As I shake off the foggy end to 2012, it is the time of year when resolutions come to mind. The more I sit in front of the computer screen, the greater I fear that I will begin to resemble a developer (no offense to developers whom I hold i... |
| Nov 9, 2012 | 10 Kickstarter Projects Every Geek Should Support | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 6/5/2014] We’re living in a golden age for creators and entrepreneurs. If you don’t believe me, just look back about a decade and try to remember how hard it was to p... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | Healthcare crowdfunding website readies for launch | Among companies with a presence on the website are EndoGoddess, an Ohio-based company raising money for a clinical trial of a diabetes management app, and Avado, a physician-patient communication platform in which physicians can address the... |
| May 31, 2012 | Down with the Gown: Researchers crowdfund redesign of hospital gown | As of 4:30 pm Eastern on May 31, the team had just met its goal $5,000 to cover supplies and manufacturing for 500 gowns. The group used the SciFund Challenge, a global organization of scientists that uses crowdfunding to fund research. Thi... |
| May 16, 2012 | Is crowdfunding good or bad for angel investors? | In short, it’s too early to say, but angels shouldn’t be too quick to regard crowdfunding as entirely benign. It’s not hard to imagine crowdfunding increasing competition for good deals and reducing angel investors’ access to quality dealfl... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Is crowdfunding a viable option for medical technology startups? | Could crowdfunding, now enjoying a moment in the sun with the recent passage of the federal JOBS Act, be a route to early stage funding for medtech companies and rescue these companies from VC apathy and the valley of death?
The answer is a... |
| Mar 22, 2012 | Senate Approves JOBS Act which allows startups to seek crowd funding | The U.S. Senate today passed the JOBS Act, whose acronym stands for Jumpstart Our Business Startups, which includes a crowd funding provision to allow entrepreneurs to raise money directly from small investors through crowd funding sites.
T... |
| Nov 18, 2011 | Learning From Beethoven: Speeding Up The Exchange Of Scientific Knowledge | There is a general belief that science proceeds by smooth cycles of discovery and sharing ? that scientists formulate theories, investigate problems, produce data and then publish results for other scientists to check, reproduce and then bu... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | FAQ: What the new U.S. crowdfunding bill means for entrepreneurs | Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a crowdfunding bill that will allow startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites and social networks. If passed by the Senate and signed off by the President, the bill will... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | FAQ: What the new U.S. crowdfunding bill means for entrepreneurs | 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 week, the U.S. House of Representatives pass... |
| 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... |
| Healthcare crowdfunding website readies for launch | A New York-based serial entrepreneur is preparing to launch a crowdfunding website focused on innovation in healthcare in what its founders hope will provide an alternate funding source for companies that might otherwise not get it from ang... |
| Is crowdfunding good or bad for angel investors? | In the world of startups, few separate topics of discussion have recently been hotter than angel investing and crowdfunding.
But what about considering where crowdfunding and angel investing intersect? Can these two forms of startup fundrai... |
| How your DNA may write your next drug prescription | In the back seat of a taxi, on the way home from oral arguments in the AMP v. Myriad Genetics Supreme Court case, Chris Mason and Jeffrey Rosenfeld decided to start a company.
Mason, a faculty member at Weill Cornell Medical School and an a... |
| Is crowdfunding a viable option for medical technology startups? | Anyone who pays attention to the venture capital industry has heard plenty of talk about why some VCs are abandoning medical technology investment (though there are notable exceptions).
The health industry is too heavily regulated, too frau... |
| Down with the Gown: Researchers crowdfund redesign of hospital gown | A team at North Carolina State University’s College of Textiles is asking patients to help them solve a long-standing problem: embarrassing hospital gowns.
Anyone who has been a hospital patient knows the uneasy, drafty feeling the unisex g... |
