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Crowdfunding News 9/30/12 Crowdfund Tim Russ' Star Trek pilot, an Arctic documentary, and a short time ... io9 Crowdfund Tim Russ' Star Trek pilot, an Arctic documentary, and a short time We have three very different film projects vying for your crowdfunding dollars this week. One is a Star Trek film and possible pilot starring lots of familiar Trek faces. We ... See all stories on this topic » The growing trend of crowd funding Times of India Artistes, filmmakers and even the aam janta seem to have really taken to the new-age idea of crowd-funding . This new DIY (Do It Yourself) approach may still be in a nascent stage in India, but its popularity is picking up. A music gig held in Mumbai on ... See all stories on this topic » Boulder businesses, artists turn to Kickstarter to crowdfund their ideas Daily Camera Audrey Forlee, 6, left, and Kiedis Forlee , 3, look over the doughnut selection at Dizzy s Donuts in Boulder. The owners of the n

Crowdfunding News 9/28/12 Crowdfunding site Kickstarter toughens its rules Globe and Mail Crowdfunding site Kickstarter – where more than 30,000 projects have raised about $312-million, according to its stats – has announced new rules to help keep "creators," or the entrepreneurially minded trying to fund ventures, from over-promising and ... See all stories on this topic » Globe and Mail Florida Crowdfunding Site Provides Fresh-Squeezed Opportunities Crowdsourcing.org " Crowdfunding is opening the door for talent that was previously hidden to translate into serious business and profit," declares Robert Dobyns, founder of Conzortia. "This new method of business funding is quickly becoming the catalyst that will shake ... See all stories on this topic » JOBS Act Legislation Opens Up Crowdfunding Entrepreneur With buzz from fundraising websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, equity crowdfunding is a welcome player.

Crowdfunding News 9/27/12 Before CROWDFUND Act takes effect, investors can help boost local start-ups ... Boston.com (blog) With rules about actually investing in companies about to become a bit more lax, the crowdfunding floodgates might open even wider, with new crowdinvesting site WeFunder, based in Cambridge, hoping to join the ranks of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo as a ... See all stories on this topic » Community-Based Investing: A Higher Evolution of Crowdfunding Forbes Legalizing crowdfunding for accredited investors is the first in a series of securities-law changes to roll out during the S.E.C.'s 270-day ruling period. With crowdfunding for accrediteds about to go live, it's my guess that rules for non-accredited ... See all stories on this topic » NPR on crowd funding for musicians, via Seattle's The Physics The Seattle Times 545802_10150688449997024_ 2088833419 _n_wide-381eb816e9fb21ad761325924299bb98d219c13c . jpeg . Photo

Crowdfunding News 9/26/12 How to make the best crowdfunding pitch Washington Post (blog) The Securities and Exchange Commission is drafting regulations for crowdfunding – a not yet legal practice allowing companies to sell stakes to large numbers of small investors, potentially online. Startups looking to pursue those dollars will need to ... See all stories on this topic » National Crowdfunding Association Partners with Equity Advertising Ventures to ... The Herald | HeraldOnline.com 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Crowdfunding Association today announced that it has partnered with Equity Advertising Ventures, a San Diego-based marketing and communications firm, to create enhanced marketing campaigns in ... See all stories on this topic » Gambitious Launches, Brings Equity and Donation Crowdfunding to Video Games Crowdsourcing.org While pledges can be made by anyone over 18 years old, the equity crowdfunding model is open primarily to

Crowdfunding News 9/25/12 Crowd Funding For Musicians Isn't The Future; It's The Present NPR (blog) By now, everyone's heard of Kickstarter, the website that lets people with an idea or project ask other people to contribute toward realizing it. It's called crowd funding , and this summer's big success story was musician Amanda Palmer. She raised more ... See all stories on this topic » Duke Nukem's 3D Realms Crowdfunding (Not Kickstarting) Their Next Project ... Forbes That would be through Gambitious, a video game-only crowdfunding site that allows backers to actually buy equity in projects in some cases. The site itself appears to be both a gambit, and very ambitious, as the name suggests, because browsing the page ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes Crowdfunding Startup GoFundMe Launches Member Network Program, Now ... TechCrunch gofundme_logo. Crowdfunding startup GoFundMe is picking up steam, raising about $3 mil

Crowdfunding News 9/24/12 $1.3m crowd-funding offers to change a light bulb The Australian Financial Review In one week more than 8000 backers pledged just over $1.3 million on crowd-funding website Kickstarter to pre-order smartphone -controllable light bulbs. But despite having 51 days to go on their crowd-funding campaign, the Lifx Labs team behind the ... See all stories on this topic » Startups look to SCOR investors through state-level crowdfunding Denver Post Crowdfunding , the buzzword for the past year in tech and investment circles, is expected to explode in 2013 when federal rules are adopted to allow companies to freely sell securities online. But even before then, two Colorado startups have partnered ... See all stories on this topic » Why crowdfunding can be a terrible investment SmartPlanet.com (blog) ... will raise $2.8 billion. But as more people get in on this trend both on the project creation side and on the investing side, more probl