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"Small businesses are the backbone of our local economy," said Mayor Villaraigosa. "There is no shortage of passionate and successful small business owners in Los Angeles who,...
Very interesting take on banking services by Scred, for communities (global/virtual), which do away with issues of traditional banking such as bureaucracy, high capital requirement, regulations etc.
Although women play a major role in the economic development of emerging economies, they have the least access to capital and credit compared to their male counterparts. Giving more credit to women has been mooted as one of the fastest ways to reduce poverty in emerging economies. Therefore, increasing access to capital for women through crowdfunding could also be presented as a clear business proposition to actors in the crowdfunding sector as their repayment rates far out way those of men!
Dreamfish is a peer-to-peer global work cooperative. They built as a cooperative to enable us all to share the costs of infrastructure and pool our collective skills and energy for enterprise...
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies — at least, according to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopedia for which he serves as an advisor. Shirky is also the author of Here Comes Everybody (2008) and Cognitive Surplus (2010), two books examining the results, ramifications and potential of aggregated individual action.
Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with web guru Clay Shirky about the JOBS Act, which President Obama signed into law on April 5. In the transcript — available after the jump — Shirky explains why he “would love to be able to offer essentially wholehearted support of the crowdfunding law,” but has several reservations about the regulatory relief embedded in the bill. (Spoiler: A lot comes down to the SEC’s interpretation of the law, which is ostensibly scheduled to conclude in the first few days of 2013.) Shirky also discusses Kickstarter’s present dominance in the crowdfunding space, the vagaries of pre-JOBS Act law in relation to crowdfunding, and the effect of the JOBS Act on the current startup ecosystem and traditional venture capital.
Here are five things governments can do to help facilitate the collaborative consumption movement (moving from the scale of easy-to-implement interventions to interventions that require more...
The L.A. lending program, launched Tuesday, marks the third location in the Kiva City program, following projects in Detroit and New Orleans. The Kiva City programs, part of a partnership between...
It's an interesting debate on crowdsourcing vs. smartsourcing. It argues that it depends on the objectives of the activity and the desired result as to whether crowdsourcing should be the way...
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
