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Crowdfunding as of Dec 21 2012
Crowdfunding: The Future Of The Film Industry?
Forbes
Johnson's new production company, Crowdfund Films, intends to bring old-school Hollywood to the tech age. A veteran producer with credits that include Contraband, I Love You, Man, Secretariat, Malibu's Most Wanted, and A Walk to Remember, Johnson ...
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Forbes
Crowdfunding an HIV Vaccine: Insane or Genius?
Huffington Post
"With regards to emerging HIV research, all bets are off," Jenna* told me over the phone last week. As the director of a multimillion dollar AIDS charity, she should know. "Five years ago, if you would have said that a man could be cured of HIV through ...
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Diving into Equity Crowdfunding with Jeff Lynn, CEO of Seedrs
Crowdsourcing.org
Editor's Note: The following comes to us from Jonathan Sandlund, a crowdfunding evangelist and founder of the Crowd Cafe and Local Investors. Sandlund recently spoke with Seedrs CEO Jeff Lynn and was kind enough to share the conversation with us.
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Vacation for Karen Klein: Most Unique Crowdfunding Campaigns of 2012
Crowdsourcing.org
If a history book on crowdfunding will ever be published, 2012 will surely be remembered as the year of video games (with a paragraph, perhaps, dedicated to Apple product accessories). But no less important was the emergence crowdfunding for charity, ...
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Crowdsourcing.org
What Are the First Hours of a Crowdfunding Campaign Like?
Crowdsourcing.org
Editor's Note: For some months now Karinna Kittles-Karsten has been giving us a sneak behind the scenes as she prepares for her crowdfunding campaign. Recently, her campaign finally launched. In this, her latest crowdfunding journal entry, she talks ...
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Crowdsourcing.org
University of Utah Embraces "Crowdfunding" to Develop Technologies
PR Newswire (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The University of Utah wants to be on the cutting edge of the "crowdfunding" trend and is starting an effort to bring this new funding source to the world of academic research and technology commercialization.
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Shady Sands: Black Isle Kicks Off Troubling Crowd-Funding Campaign For Non ...
Gamespy.com
Interplay is hoping that what worked for one classic-style roleplaying game from the makers of the original Fallout can work for another. It's just launched a non-Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for the relaunched Black Isle Studios' Project V13 (or ...
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Gamespy.com
Abundance Generation Fastest Growing Crowdfunding Platform in Renewable ...
Triple Pundit
Democratic finance is a new way to invest your money that doesn't involve trusting banks. Instead, you can make investments of as little as five pounds in renewable energy projects that power communities, and in return for investing you get a sensible ...
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