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Crowdfunding News 9/30/12
Crowdfund Tim Russ' Star Trek pilot, an Arctic documentary, and a short time ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 newly opened doughnut shop turned to Kickstarter.com in an attempt to crowdfund a needed expansion of their kitchen.
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Games Are A Difficult Investment Proposition, But Crowdfunding Could Change ...
Centralia Chronicle
Games Are A Difficult Investment Proposition, But Crowdfunding Could Change That. Story · Commenting. Print: Create a hardcopy of this page; Font Size: Default font size: Larger font size. Posted: Sunday, September 30, 2012 6:00 am. Games Are A ...
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Irony at its finest: Kickstarter project explaining how to fund Kickstarter ...
The Next Web
My book, Crowdfunding: A Guide to What Works and Why, will cover planning a project, carrying it through its funding phase, and fulfilling goals by offering a combination of case studies of successful (and unsuccessful) projects and detailed, specific ...
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Tesla Museum raises over $1.3 million, puts Indiegogo on the map
TweakTown
We all know about Kickstarter, but there's another crowdfunding kid on the block - Indiegogo. Indiegogo, along with Matthew "The Oatmeal" Inman, launched an Indiegogo campaign that aimed at buying some land for a Nikola Tesla dedicated museum.
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Zombies, Kung Fu Fighters and Cancer Patients Together in a Documentary ...
Crowdsourcing.org
Description The film "Hopefully" is going to be screened in 2013. During the course of the next months, the producer is hoping to collect the necessaries Funding to complete the film on time. The first screening of the film will be in Colorado and ...
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