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Asked about the benefits for third-party funding, founder of Spacehive Chris Gourlay states in an interview: “Public space is a huge arena that has a huge bearing on our quality of life,...
Spacehive's goal is "to make it as easy to fund a new park or playground for your area as buying a book online." While that's a bit ambitious—no matter how great a site's...
Founder Chris Gourlay said: “Success in Glyncoch, one of the UK's most deprived towns, really shows the potential power of Spacehive's model in helping communities to transform where...
Catapult is a digital hub driving donations to organisations working to improve the lives of girls and women. It will provide a call to action to help bring an end to gender inequality and harness...
“It’s as easy as buying a book online,” said Chris Gourlay, whose site, Spacehive, is crowdfunding urban projects in Britain. “For people who are used to long, drawn out, multiyear urban planning...
Not only did Spacehive help to raise extra cash, it also boosted community spirit and caused residents to rally around the project. Local mayor Doug Williams said: "It gee'd the...
Climb For ChangeTM is the online fundraising hub for charity climbs, treks, hikes and adventures worldwide. ClimbForChange.com is the first online fundraising campaign platform and community...
With thousands of Hurricane Sandy victims facing a less-than-bright holiday season, New Jersey expats around the U.S. are banding together to launch a nationwide "Very Jersey Xmas"...
There is one additional online activity that should be mentioned. It is not very innovative itself, but it is essential for enabling innovation: crowdfunding, webmoney and tools for donating micro...
We take a look at Vourno, a crowdfunding platform for journalists, that launched earlier today.
In this third and final part of my three-part series exploring some of the aspects entrepreneurs need to consider when designing a crowdfunding platform, I explore the eight essentials of crowdfunding. The context for my posts has been a close look at the French crowdfunding market place and in-depth interviews with ten owners of French crowdfunding platforms. In my first post, I presented a few factors that I felt made it more difficult for French crowdfunding platforms to achieve the same levels of explosive growth that are being experienced by crowdfunding platforms in the US such as IndieGoGo, Kickstarter and RocketHub. In the second post, I took a closer look at the different models that are being tested in the French market.
I learned a lot from my interviews with the founders of 10 French crowdfunding platforms. While many of the opinions were quite diverse there was also clear convergence on a common theme: they all held a passion for crowdfunding and a shared belief in its potential. For those of you that have also caught the crowdfunding bug, for this third post I have shared a list of “crowdfunding essentials”, gleaned from the experts that should help you pursue your crowdfunding goals. Thanks again to all the interviewees (in alphabetical order): Smiti Arbia from carnetdemode.com, Nicolas Bailly de touscoprod, Alexandre Boucherot d’Ulule, Hortense Garand from babeldoor.com, Michael Goldman from MyMajorCompany, Nicolas Guillaume from Friendsclear, Angel Ramos de revenonsalamusique.com, Vincent Ricordeau from KissKissBankBank, and Yannick Robert from Mywittygames.com.
InvestedIn CEO Alon Goren says Google's investment in the crowdfinance platform is a key milestone.
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