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Get creative with crowd funding
The Canberra Times
Foley was taking part in something called crowd funding: putting an idea online and encouraging other people, mostly strangers, to chip in cash to make it happen. People behind these projects being pitched offer rewards to donors. For example, Foley ...
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SEC's Proposed Rule on General Solicitation Reads, "SorryPlease Hold… It's ...
TechCrunch
Editor's note: Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss led the U.S. fight to legalize debt and equity based crowdfunding, co-authored Crowdfund Investing for Dummies and founded Crowdfund Capital Advisors where they provide strategy and technology services ...
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Couragent using Launchpad to raise capital
Boulder County Business Report
BOULDER - Mobile-scanner manufacturing company Couragent Inc. wants to raise $350,000 online using a crowdfunding technology platform created by Funding Launchpad. Terms of the deal were not disclosed between Boulder-based Vim Funding Inc., ...
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EarlyShares.com Sponsors Small Business Challenge For Companies That ...
Daily Markets
In an effort to stimulate job creation in America, Equity Based Crowdfunding platform EarlyShares.com is sponsoring the Small Business Challenge, a competition that invites companies to compete for a share of $50,000 in cash and marketing resources to ...
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Crowdfunding Site For Artistic Projects Launches
PR Web (press release)
Robert Dobyns, CEO of Conzortia Business Funding, Inc. has announced the official launch of their new crowdfunding platform built specifically for Film, Art, Comic, Game and Mobile App Projects in the U.S.. Crowdfunding is a consortia of people pooling ...
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