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Crowdfunding   News 1/29/13   P&G Taps Crowdfunding Site to Scout for Startup Brands Businessweek For small companies selling consumer products like makeup or snack food, a partnership with a big multinational company can mean the difference between obscurity and becoming a household name. How does a small brand get a behemoth's attention? See all stories on this topic » Why the Next Hit Video Game May Be Crowdfunded TIME In his project video on the crowdfunding website, Schafer did not promise fans the greatest game of all time. He didn't even guarantee the game would be good. "Either the game will be great, or it will be a spectacular failure caught on camera for ... See all stories on this topic » 16 Innovative Ways to Use Crowdfunding for Education Innovation Excellence (blog) With success stories like a 3 million dollar crowdfunding on the Kickstart platform for the video game, Double Fine Adventure, the trend is catching on fast. And

NewMe Community Meetup, Washington, D.C. December 16, 2012 Something very interesting is going on. The growth in the number of computer technology and programming groups launched by African American females is nothing short of amazing. In the past year, BlackGirlsHack, BlackGirlsCode, and Black Women in Computing (BWiC) have gained significant traction. Interest in minority tech firms has been growing and African American females are leading the charge. For those of you not familiar with these efforts, let me note that BlackGirlsHack seeks to "bring the black tech community around the country, to help black founded startups and non-profits develop the mobile and web apps that they need to take their businesses to the next step, and to benefit a local non-profit with the proceeds from our events." Black Girls Code wants "to empower young women of color between the ages of 6-17 to embrace the current tech marketplace as builders and creators," and Black Women

Crowdfunding News 1/25/13 Three awesome crowdfunding projects going on now Boston.com (blog) From an adorable puppy Facebook game to fresh produce for everyone, these local crowdfunding projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo offer a little of something for everyone. Fresh Truck. What they do: Convert an old schoolbus into a mobile farmers ... See all stories on this topic » Solar Crowdfunding Startup Lets Ordinary Investors Own A Piece Of The Sun Forbes Solar Crowdfunding Startup Lets Ordinary Investors Own A Piece Of The Sun. This story appears in the February 11, 2013 issue of Forbes. comments , called-out. Comment Now. Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments. Comment Now ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes Crowdfunding Helps Bring Xconomy to Colorado; Now Writers Needed Xconomy If you've spent much time in the Colorado back country , you probably remember feeling a profound sense of elation that comes after hours of

Crowdfunding News 1/18/13 Will Crowdfunding Change the Face of Consumer Electronics? Forbes Money At this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) a number of companies showed wares developed using the crowdfunding finance model popularized by Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and a variety of other firms. Some of these devices were recently ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes Warning: "Get Rich Crowdfunding " Might Not Be a Legit Business Gizmodo The WSJ reports that the rapid increase in crowdfunding websites comes from the Jumpstart Our Business Startups ("JOBS") Act signed into law last spring. The law changes existing rules so that private startups can raise up to $1 million a year from ... See all stories on this topic » Crowdfunding Property Deals on Horizon With U.S. JOBS Act Bloomberg New U.S. securities laws intended to help startup companies raise money are poised to benefit real estate investors as well, allowing i

Crowdfunding News 1/17/13 'Dark snow' project turns to crowdfunding The Guardian (blog) There is already much excitement in the arts, media and beyond about the potential of crowdfunding - via sites such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo – to finance projects that might others have remained an unfulfilled dream. To date, though, few scientific ... See all stories on this topic » Crowdfunding Social Enterprises for the Greater Good Crowdsourcing.org Last month, crowdfunding portal Crowdfunder launched a new effort to connect social entrepreneurs with impact investors. That's all a fancy way of saying that Crowdfunder has setup a community on its site that allows people to contribute to for-profit ... See all stories on this topic » Crowdsourcing.org Securities law complaints down, but crowdfunding could change landscape ... Plain Dealer Under a new securities law signed by President Obama last April, companies are allowed to solicit money

Today, FINRA issued the first official regulatory paperwork related to Crowdfunding: a voluntary, interim form that Cowdfunding portals can use to register with FINRA. If you are a portal helping people raise equity capital online, you must register with FINRA, so this gets the process started. An important move. According to FINRA, "Filing of this interim form will not entitle you to FINRA membership. We will make membership available to funding portals after the SEC adopts funding portal rules and approves FINRA's funding portal rules. Once funding portal rules are in place, FINRA will issue a final funding portal application that will be necessary for you to file to become a FINRA member. In applying for membership, you will not be bound by the responses you provided on this interim funding portal form."  To see the form, go to FINRA's website or go here:  https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bx3S91AlzNJ4MElNb1pfYmktYjg

Crowdfunding News 1/6/13 The Crowdfunding Crowd Is Anxious New York Times To its advocates, crowdfunding is a way for capital-starved entrepreneurs to receive financing that neither big investors nor lenders are willing or able to provide. To others, it represents a potential minefield that could help bad businesses get off ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times -- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrowdfundingBook and https://www.facebook.com/wmcunningham Twitter: @CreativeInv My new book: The JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups http://www.apress.com/9781430247555 Also see our crowdfunding webinar: http://crowdfundingclass.eventbrite.com/ and http://www.udemy.com/how-to-crowdfund/ Creativeinvest.com Minorityfinance.com Minoritybank.com DiversityFund.net Creative Investment Research, Inc. http://about.me/wmc Skype: william . michael . cunningham 866-867-3795 "A candle loses nothing b