Web's Largest listing of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding events
Web's Largest Directory of Sites2,360 crowdsourcing and crowdfunding sites
With the well-established institutional frameworks of South-Africa and Cape Town, the city is an ideal piloting area for such new mechanisms by providing stable and proven legal institutions,...
Crowdsourcing refers to the idea that a group of people can accomplish something that would otherwise be impossible for an individual to do alone. Crowdfunding describes how the collective pools...
A unique advantage of the M.I.C. concept is, that no contribution is lost or wasted, as it is a new way of collecting a big amount - a new way of uniting people all over the world, who are...
Micro-funding.com help early-stage startups raise funds from micro-investors.
Overall an interesting concept – and could wake up other established players to rethink the crowdsourcing concept. Having said that, some of these concepts work at a micro level, but things change...
If you want to learn about microfinance, then this video will explain what it is in simpler and easier terms.
Global Philanthropy Group partner Maggie Nielson, who helped develop and implement the United Nation’s Year of Microcredit program in 2005, sums it up nicely: “People just want access to the same...
myAzimia is the first company to exclusively provide a crowdfunding platform to entrepreneurs and institutions. Our software as a service platform allows entrepreneurs and institutions to set up...
Recent cases of Initial Public Offering’s (IPO’s) of Micro Financial Institutions (MFI’s) have rewarded investors at the expense of borrowers. Post IPO, interest rates have been driven to exorbitant levels thereby compromising the mission of MFI’s to engage in financial lending to smaller borrowers that have a stated social aim of helping to alleviate poverty being compromised. Is the concept of an IPO for an MFI irreparably damaging to the interests of borrowers and does crowdfunding offer an alternative approach that could allow MFIs to get larger and at the same time protect their clients from high interest rates exposure?
Industry insiders have projected that P2P lending will only continue to grow as the process leaves its infancy and moves into the mainstream. As P2P lending continues to mature, many customers are...
Crowd sourcing is a relatively new concept. At this point of time, it cannot be regarded as a meaningful source of funding for the MF industry. Nonetheless, over time, it does have the potential...
The start-up, Innovestment, is a crowdinvesting platform for startup-investments. It is not a micro-financing site, but more one that allows people with a real demand for investing money the...
Obtaining the right source of finance at the right price is one of the biggest challenges faced by entrepreneurs. Currently, a wide variety of funding options are available to expand or start their business initiative. One out-of-the-box funding solution that has emerged in the recent years is the phenomenon of ‘crowdfunding’.
For centuries, family and friends have been one of the most common sources of early-stage seed capital. Crowdfunding is the natural extension of this model, enabling fundraisers to connect through social networks with a larger, online network of friends, colleagues and other people that are simply just into their idea and want to help them.
Courtesy of social media and crowdfunding websites, everyone from start-up entrepreneurs to the champions of social causes are now able to build interconnected networks more easily and more effectively than ever before. By leveraging their own personal networks to spread the word about the project to potential contributors through word of mouth, email, Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms, they can tap into existing communities of potential contributors, to launch and promote their campaigns.
The start-up, Innovestment, is a crowdinvesting platform for startup-investments. It is not a micro-financing site, but more one that allows people with a real demand for investing money the...
A presentation by Grow VC's Co-founder Jouko Ahvenainen. His presentation “Models and approach to building the new sustainable finance sector” illustrates new models for developing the...
The entrepreneurs featured in this book are all members of Zidisha Microfinance, a web-based crowdfunding platform that allows low-income, computer-savvy entrepreneurs in developing countries to...
About 10 years ago, no one believed that going online to find a husband or wife would be something normal, acceptable (not to mention profitable!!). Fast forward 10 years later and online date is no longer a fad but very much a normal thing, almost like ordering a skinny, flat white latte!!
Could Peer to Peer lending and Crowdfunding follow the same route in the next few years? i.e. move from a revolution to being mainstream methods of raising capital for new businesses? While both crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending are ways to secure capital online, the two are different from one another and the aspects of each option should be considered carefully.
What happens when 620,000 lenders fund 615,000 entrepreneurs, students, and other microfinance borrowers around the world? Watch this video and see Kiva's five+ years of loan activity, in...
This article looks into microfinance and how it evolved and how the Internet is bringing it to more and more people: Microfinance — Dr. Mohammad Yunus & Grameen Bank Microlending —...
KIVA is the world's first online microlending platform that enables anyone with access to the internet to loan as little as $25 to entrepreneurs in over 60 countries. Microfinance is a Nobel...
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.
