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Kickstarter has validated online crowdfunding. Over $200 million in capital has been raised for 20,000 projects by over 1 million users. For a company that was started in 2009, these are...
In this post Drake offers some recommendations on how to handle consumer protection and documentation under the emerging crowdfunding framework.
According to Dwight Stuckey, CEO of Mobile Rhino, Kickstarter is the perfect platform for them to bring their product to market. Crowdsourced funding allows them to reach their consumer directly...
BillGuard, the leading provider of transaction monitoring and resolution services, today announced that it is collaborating with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on the sharing of...
Elizabeth Warren’s early efforts in standing up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is exploring technological solutions to address consumer protection challenges. Warren suggests that the...
Mobile Rhino announced today the start of a IndieGoGo.com campaign to fund the market introduction of a mobile insurance product focused on protecting the mobile lives of today's consumers....
BillGuard, the world's first transaction monitoring and resolution provider,which announced earlier this month that its award-winning credit card protection service was available to...
BillGuard recently expanded its proven big data and crowdsourcing technologies to protect consumers against Grey Charges via mobile payments with BillGuard for Passbook and its integration with...
To avoid the potential pitfalls of Crowdfunding all strategists recommend the same solution: backers should use third-party websites like Bellevate.com. Bellevate holds payments in escrow until a...
BillGuard is people-powered antivirus for bills. BillGuard uses advanced big-data mining algorithms to harness the collective knowledge of millions of consumers posting billing complaints...
After a procedural vote to consider the bill passed Wednesday morning, debate resumed on investor protections. Much of the debate centers on the provisions for crowdfunding, and additional debate...
Kickstarter video for Mobile Rhino, an insurance product that protects the mobile lives of today's consumers.
WeGoLook offers services to consumers to help protect them from being taken advantage of by "tech bullies" - or internet scammers. Many of these tech bullies post fake listings or...
In this post, the fourth in a series, David Drake offers some recommendations on how to address the issue of due diligence under the emerging crowdfunding framework.
The conclusion of our conversation between Paul Spinrad and Dan Williams on the intersection of crowdfunding and those nifty products sold directly to consumers via infomercials and elsewhere.
These techniques could help the agency spot new enforcement targets in just days – not months or years, which is how long federal agencies now take to address problems. “The power of enforcement...
After breaking her near moratorium on media interviews, Warren talked exclusively with the National Journal, where she explained her plan to use “crowd-sourcing” technology as a platform for...
Citizens could organize to take photos of new payday lending or check cashing products, and upload those photos to the CFPB website. That could help notify other members of the neighborhood about...
The Crowdsourcing industry is currently under the radar of governmental regulations but the feeling is that regulation is inevitable. As such, the Crowdsortium is making efforts to reinvent...
The difficulty here is trying to balance the policy of encouraging small business formation against the investor protection goals of the securities laws. Unless new exemptions are formally adopted,...
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