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Sharing his thoughts about crowdfunding, Virgin Group’s founder Richard Branson discuss why he believes that the funding method could be a game changer for startups. 
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Ana is an independent researcher currently working on 2 projects: knowledge as a ubiquitous commons and a proposal for community-based forest monitoring.
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Occupy Banking: a perverse system based on debt with these institutions – who have never been voted in democratically – is hijacking our sovereignty.
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The last in the series of free posters about Commons-Based Peer Production produced by P2Pvalue & designed by Laura Recio shows some of the crazy things we can do with collaborative communities.
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With the release of final rules for Title IV of the JOBS Act, commonly referred to as Regulation A+, all investment crowdfunding platforms are sizing up the opportunity and evaluating the shift in regulations.
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In May of this year a competition aimed at at finding the next 'must-have' gadget will reach its climax on Britain's Channel 5 television when a winner inventor or entrepreneur is announced on the Gadget Show.
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We're losing forests at a staggering rate, with a forest area the size of New York City disappearing every two days, and because of that deforestation, we're slowly losing one of our greatest allies in the fight against climate change.
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California Introduces the Local Economies Securities Act Crowdfunding Exemption Crowdfund Insider Existing law exempts from permit requirements any offer or sale of a membership in a California consumer cooperative corporation, provided that the...
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We want to finance the team that is already working on the launch of the #OccupyBanking campaign with the intention of placing at the center of public debate the total lack of democracy of the European Central Bank (ECB) and large private banks who control the monetary system, and especially the creation of money. A perverse system based on debt with these institutions – who have never been voted in democratically – hijacking our sovereignty. The #OccupyBanking campaign also wants to be the spearhead for creating the conditions that allow the #ReturnWithFreedom of the activist Enric Duran.
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The technologies that undergird Bitcoin transactions have advanced to suggest other, non-financial applications. (Bitcoin Magazine)
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There have been so many incredible stories we have covered over the last year. In fact, as 3DPrint.com turns a year old, the topics which have received the
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In my first video, I discuss game theory and assurance contracts, and explain how bitcoin can be used for crowdfunding.
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The new year has arrived and for those looking to get into Asia's crowdfunding market, here are our predictions.
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SENSORICA is not a typical organization. It is an open value network. It is an open network that does peer production. It is a cluster of open enterprises. It is, in my opinion, the most audacious attempt to implement commons-based peer production of hardware, started in February 2011, one year and 3 months after Satoshi Nakamoto published his paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System". It is the furthest humanity has gone into hard core peer production, building peer-run physical labs, peer governance and normative systems, methodologies for open product development, as well as legal structures compatible with all that. SENSORICA is the proper type of organization for p2p (or real) crowdfunding.
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In the 19th century, there were 11 cities with over 1 million inhabitants. Today there are over 500 cities around the world where the population stands above 1 million. There are over 7 billion souls on this planet and this number is predicted to...
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5 Must-Know Things Before You Launch Your #Crowdfund One glance at this u-shaped graph of 200,000 crowdfunds is enough to tell the story to anyone who’s seen many crowdfunds succeed and fail.
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June 22, 2016 1:29 PM
A great product and an epic pre-launch marketing campaign is the key to crowdfunding success
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The last in the series of free posters about Commons-Based Peer Production produced by P2Pvalue & designed by Laura Recio shows some of the crazy things we can do with collaborative communities. The poster can be downloaded below (click on image to go to the downloads page on Wikimedia Commons) & used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. …
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The evolution of crowdfunding as a new investment vehicle in the US real estate industry has been remarkable in the past few years. Since the JOBS Act was passed into law in 2012, platforms specializing in crowdfunding real estate projects have mushr...
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Crowdfunding has long offered a unique and impressive platform for startups to get off the ground — inventors with a great idea and some entrepreneurial spirit can turn to like-minded individuals who’d love to see...
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CrowdCube Co-Founder Luke Lang and JustPark Chief Executive Officer Alex Stephany discuss the impact of the sharing economy on various sectors.
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Entrepreneurs are raising billions via crowdfunding -- but the nonfinancial payoff may be even greater.
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March 10, 2015 5:27 PM
This is why the #stepup2inspire campaign is a success...the relationships being built through a common goal always outweigh the goal.
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Congress in the JOBS Act provided an exemption from registration for certain crowdfunding offerings. The SEC has a rule proposal pending. The difficulty in this area is balancing the costs of investor protection against the impediments to capital raising. The issues are exacerbated by the limits ($1 million) on the size of any offering relying on the crowdfunding exemption.
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“Credibles crowd-funds small, sustainable food-related businesses. The re-payment of the funding is in-kind – edible credits, or Credibles.
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Over the last few months, Amazon has been hiring for a new endeavor with the goal of creating the “best end-to-end platform for startups” In what appears to be the next step in becoming a one-stop-shop for everything, the company is developing an inventor platform aimed at supporting inventors and selling their products. In one job description, Amazon promotes the new position as a “new platform with investors.”
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