Crowd Funding
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Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music , film , art , technology , design , food , publishing and other creative fields. A new form of commerce and patronage.
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IndieGoGo
The platform Indiegogo provides has resulted in the greatest outpouring of support and love I have ever experienced…I highly recommend them for their ability to personally support and guide you in achieving your goals.
MIT Entrepreneurship Review: How 'Collaborative Consumption' Is Transforming Startups
Loosely defined, collaborative consumption is a business model in which shared goods or services are distributed via a market place to a community of users. Collaborative consumption reshapes markets by changing supply and demand economics. These new market places shrink consumer retail demand.
The Crowdfunding Revolution | Social Networking Meets Venture Financing
A bittersweet moment in entrepreneurial history recently occurred, with the Senate passage of the JOBS Act. After passing in the House, this 6-pack of small business modernization reforms cleared the Senate. While most things were left intact from the House bill, the crowdfunding component was tweaked to allow for "more investor protections".
The New Face of Venture Capital, Part 2: Rise of Crowdfunding
This is Part 2 of a presentation I've created to help Limited Partners and entrepreneurs understand the future of successful Venture Capital. Part 1 is here . Part 2 explains why conventional VC networks & outlier identification produce poor returns, and how crowdsourcing/crowdfunding will be used to augment or replace them and to create high-return VC of the future. I have many deeper throughts. Feel free to contact me about them. If you find this useful, feel free to pass the word.
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THIS from the two New Yorkers who designed the Glif, a tripod adapter for the iPhone 4 . It's a hunk of rubberized plastic with a threaded bushing that will ultimately retail for $15. Last week, its designers hoped to raise $10,000 through the crowdfunding site Kickstarter. In the first three days, the total contributions were $70,000. Fund-raising will continue until November 2nd. Tom Gerhardt makes interactive kiosks.
Small-scale production: An atom-based product, developed in bits | The Economist
Micropatronage Sweet Spot: The micro-price of micropatronage | The Economist
SETTING the perfect price remains a hard problem in any market. What to charge in order to reap the greatest return at the highest volume for the producer or provider? Consumers and businesses may possess an unknown price sensitivity that results in a small change dramatically improving or worsening sales.It starts with a book. Art Space Tokyo is a book best described as a guide to some of the hidden galleries and museums in the city. Editor and co-author Ashley Rawlings and I put the book together in 2008. It sold out within a year and was never reprinted. The book is important to us because we put so much work into its production.
Kickstartup — Successful fundraising with Kickstarter & the (re)making of Art Space Tokyo — Craig Mod
Crowdfunding - TIME
Illustration by Christoph Neimann for TIME Politicians do it. Charities too. And now for-profit entrepreneurs are tapping the Internet to get small amounts of money from lots and lots of supporters.
The SEC should change its rules to permit entrepreneurs to use crowdfunding to sell equity. The risk would be no greater to investors than that posed by accepted online lending models By Scott Shane Entrepreneurs can use peer-to-peer lending sites such as Prosper and LendingClub to obtain loans for their businesses without worrying about breaking securities laws. But they cannot take a similar approach to selling equity in their companies online.
Let the Crowd Buy Equity in Private Companies - BusinessWeek
Monitor: Putting your money where your mouse is | The Economist
WIKIPEDIA, a giant online encyclopedia compiled by volunteers, is the product of the aggregation of lots of people’s spare time. An example of “crowdsourcing”, it demonstrates that on the internet, as in the real world, many hands make light work. Can the same approach be applied to money as well as time?P2P Lending
You see many individuals flocking the ‘startup movement’ as the biggest new craze on Planet Earth. What you also see, is a lot of these individuals jumping ship left and right from one startup to another, only staying in one startup for a limited period of time. How would you feel about a potential partner,... Read more... The JOBS act was signed into law by President Obama on Thursday 5 April, supported by overwhelming bypartisan support. Grow VC has been active in pioneering the new market and since last year supporting the bills passage through Congress.