Crowdfunding News 2/6/13

Crowdfunding News 2/6/13

Crowdfunding: It's Not Just For Startups Forbes Ever since the boom of Kickstarter, and the passing of the JOBS Act last April, crowdfunding has become part of the investment vernacular. What started out as a funding portal for art projects, band albums, small businesses, and budding entrepreneurs ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

The Best Crowdfunding Project Yet: The Kickstarter To Build The Death Star Forbes Oh yes, I think this is glorious. There's a Kickstarter project looking to build the Death Star. Given the White House's refusal to start the project despite the petition asking that they do it has fallen to an Englishman to attempt to get the project ... See all stories on this topic »

'Bellflower' filmmakers turn to crowdfunding for 'Chuck Hank and the San Diego ... Yahoo! Movies (blog) The filmmakers behind 2011's indie cult hit "Bellflower" are turning to crowd-funding to help complete their new film "Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins." Calling the new project "influenced heavily by 80s action films and side-scrolling video games," ... See all stories on this topic » Yahoo! Movies (blog)

Israel jumps on the crowdfunding platform wagon SmartPlanet.com (blog) OurCrowd, Israel's take on the crowdfunding phenomenon, says that its first round of startup funding from investors has been a success. Closing $5.5 million in Series A funding, the equity crowdfunding platform is a little less like public efforts ... See all stories on this topic »

Crowdfunding science O'Reilly Radar There has been a resurgence of that model — though perhaps more democratic — in the modern concept of crowdfunding. Kickstarter, the most well-known of the crowdfunding startups, enables inventors, artists, and makers to source the funds they need ... See all stories on this topic »

Italian Pavilion turns to "crowdfunding" to raise cash Art Newspaper The Italian government today announced the exhibition plan for the Italian pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale (1 June-24 November), which will feature 14 artists selected by the curator Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, the director of the Macro (Museo d'Arte ... See all stories on this topic » Art Newspaper

GDC 2013 reveals Indie Summit talks on crowdfunding, Retro/Grade, Molyjam Gamasutra Game Developers Conference 2013 organizers have revealed new Summit talks for its March conference, with lectures on the Peter Molyneux parody turned international game jam, Retro/Grade creator's self-tortuous development cycle, and research on ... See all stories on this topic » Gamasutra

Crowd-funding Platform Connects Entrepreneurs with Consumer-Product Giants Entrepreneur (blog) Some of the CircleUp team (L to R): Erik Vandekieft, director of engineering, Rory Eakin, co-founder, and Bryce Drennan, engineer, with some of the products they have helped raise money for with their crowd-funding platform. If you are growing a skin ... See all stories on this topic »

Entrepreneurs frustrated by SEC delay in expanding crowdfunding investor pool The Business Review (Albany) (blog) Until new rules are in place, the only qualified crowdfunding investors permitted to purchase shares in private companies are people with a high net worth, businesses and large endowment funds. Its been 10 months since President Obama enacted ... See all stories on this topic »

5 Common Crowdfunding Video Mistakes That'll Kill Your Project ReelSEO Online Video News An essential part of any crowdfunding campaign is the video. According to Kickstarter, 50% of projects with a video succeed, versus 30% success for projects without a video. Videos will make, or break, your project no matter if you're funding a feature ... See all stories on this topic » ReelSEO Online Video News

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