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What many people may not know is that the new crowdfunding exemption is not the only way, nor perhaps the best way, to legally raise investment capital from the crowd. Companies have been legally...
IPO Village announced on Tuesday that it will begin crowdfunding Nasdaq initial public offerings in the coming months.
Significantly, a number of sessions at the sustainability conference focused on how to effectively engage people in community decision-making. Keynote speaker Amelia Shaw, Manager of Public...
Crowdfunding is still a nascent concept, but successful ventures like the ones profiled above are a testament to its unlimited potential to fund the types of projects that the public really wants...
By offering an open forum for debating public art projects, ArtHERE has the potential to change the curatorial process, forcing exhibition organizers to be more collaborative with and accountable...
"The public support for crowd-funding creative game ideas coming from small developers today is nothing short of phenomenal,” EA's senior VP of Origin David DeMartini stated.
Joy Schoffler of Leverage PR offers tips on how to use public relations for crowdfunding success.
The systems at PeoplesVC.com have been designed so Public Investors cannot commit funds to crowdfunded ventures without prior Education and Certification.The goal is to be sure all investors...
Intrigal for many city-dwellers to get around, the company OpenPlans has started a Kickstarter project to help fund a solution. Called OpenTripPlanner, the open-source application will offer a...
"This new partnership with Yelp to offer restaurant health inspection scores on its site is another significant step in the Open Data movement," said Mayor Lee. "By making often...
"CrowdIt is all about helping people bring their ideas to fruition," said Jason Graf , co-founder and CEO. "Small business is the lifeblood of our economy and whatever we can do to...
Project Travel partners with academic institutions, non-profit and third-party program providers to help more students and program participants go abroad, while directly advising them on how to...
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?
Government 2.0 is a key means for renewing the public sector, offering new tools for public servants to engage and respond to the community, empower the enthusiastic, share ideas and further...
Kicker Studio , a Design Consultancy made up of Designers, Researchers, Innovators and Makers.They create meaningful, lasting relationships to products by creating interfaces that feel like a...
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Targeting PR campaigns to specific publics online is challenging. The global reach of the Internet challenges a public relations practitioner’s confidence that an online message targeted at a set...
M&A (mergers and acquisitions) are some of the most popular, high-profile transactions that business leaders engage in. Compared with an IPO (Initial Public Offering), which is generally a one-off in the life of a company and frequently in the life of an employee, M&A happen much more frequently and in many more companies. In the technology industry, many employees experience several such transactions in a few years. Here’s the wringer: M&A generally fail.
IPOvillage.com is dedicated to crowdfunding initial public offerings (IPOs). Everyone is welcome to invest! IPO Village's debut IPO will be on behalf of a First Line Capital portfolio...
In this latest installment of Crowdsourcing.org's From the Crowd podcast, Eric Mack speaks with Daniel Hirsch of First Line Capital, which is working with IPO Village to democratize the process of investing in IPOs and offering a means of using crowdfunding to open up initial public offerings on the Nasdaq exchange soon.
Doron Erblich, CTO, IPO Village, states, "We are clearly experiencing a greater volume of traffic and investor sign-ups than expected, which is a wonderful thing. At this pace, it is likely...
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