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If you've ever received an email from a friend asking you to donate to her favorite charitable cause, you already have an idea of how crowdfunding works. But raising money for charity is...
The main advantages of crowdfunding are: It's cost effective, will give you a lot of exposure from a marketing point of view, you can gain crowd feedback on your business and it can be a lot...
Can farmers in developing nations use crowdsourcing for crop improvement? Jacob van Etten thinks so, and he tells us why in this Q&A.
Jonathan Sandlund, founder of localinvestors.org and a crowdfunding evangelist, writes in to discuss the relationship between equity crowdfunding platforms and broker-dealers.
Thomas Vass, owner and manager of The Private Capital Market, a fee-based subscription crowdfunding site, writes in to discuss Wassily Leontief's economic theories in the context of the crowdfunding ecosystem.
I am not a writer. I am not a journalist. I am a software developer and I built LocalByUs. I may not be a writer, but writing software is a lot like writing a book: you write it, refine it, and publish it. You don’t know if anyone will buy it, read it or like it. It’s not easy.
Writing LocalByUs was challenging. At times during the last six months, I coded away like a madwoman, making quick progress on the site. At other times, I stared at the screen, blocked, stumped by impossible-to-solve issues — that, of course, seem simple in retrospect. Tough as it was, it was also fun. Working through all the problems, I have learned more in the last six months than I did in the last six years. But when I started, I did not know that building LocalByUs would be a worthwhile venture. So why build it?
I like my local newspaper. It hasn’t gone out of business… yet. Experts think the days of local newspapers are numbered. People search the web for the information they used to get from their local newspaper. Some newspapers have morphed into online local newspapers. AOL’s Patch is trying an online newspaper model at a big scale. By all reports, it is failing as well. But most of what the local newspaper reports — school sports, business news, police blotter, neighborhood association news, local politics and so on — could very well be crowdsourced.
These days you can build a business very cheaply. The idea of getting information out is very attainable, and you can do it out of your own savings or work at night and get there through blood,...
Wanobe is a site where you can tap into the collective wisdom of businesspeople and find human answers to questions that search engines cannot handle well. Wanobe.com exists to help small and...
Eric Blattberg of Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with Sherwood Neiss about the JOBS Act: its conceptualization, the subsequent legislative process, its ultimate passage, its potential benefits and drawbacks, its media and public reception, and much more. The second part of that discussion is available after the jump.
During Crowdsourcing.org's most recent Crowdfunding Live Chat this past Monday, June 4, leaders from CfIRA, CfPA and others in the emerging equity crowdfunding industry gathered to discuss recent discussions with SEC and FINRA on how the industry will take shape. There was also a recap of the recent Crowdfunding Made Simple event in Salt Lake City and talk of similar events in the works for several other states.
The Crowdsourcing Industry Taxonomy (V2) is the result of primary research, facilitated by Crowdsourcing.org, involving a team of expert volunteers. The team identified seven distinguishably unique categories of crowdsourcing. These top level categories are: Open Innovation, Community Building, Collective Creativity, Civic Engagement, Collective Knowledge, Crowdfunding and Cloud Labor.
In a really exciting first in the world of crowdfunding, the Rushmore Group which runs private members’ clubs in London has become the first business ever to raise more than £1m using a crowdfunding platform. Based in the UK, Crowdcube is one of the first business finance crowdfunding platforms for businesses to raise equity finance. Crowdcube launched in 2010 as the “next generation of business investment” and offers a new way to fund start-ups and business expansion by providing budding entrepreneurs a platform to connect with ordinary people and raise venture capital.
Selecting Crowdcube for its fundraising platform, Jonathan Downey, founder and owner of the Rushmore Group, opted to use the crowdfunding model over other methods for raising capital needed to expand the business. Sensationally, the Group raised the money in the space of four weeks from 143 investors.
Google's non-profit arm, Google.org, has given over a million dollars to Samasource, which seeks to connect women and youth in the poorest corners of the world with steady work in the form of small tasks performed online.
The crowdsourcing and crowdfunding industry is picking up momentum at an exceptional rate. Validity of the models involved is now grounded in the ever-increasing size of the participatory crowd, the scale of the capital networks involved, and the unique value delivered to customers, communities, and investors alike. Astute expansion-stage venture firms are now decisively backing and further fuelling explosive high-growth in crowd-driven companies. With more than $280 million invested in 35 different crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms during 2011 — an average investment of $8 million per funding round — it is clear that the industry’s probationary period is over.
Pia Erkinheimo, Head of Crowdsourcing for Nokia, explains the m2Work challenge during a Q&A session at the World Bank's ICT Sector Day on Thursday, February 23, 2012. She was part of a...
A year ago, George Washington University professor David Alan Grier made some predictions about where crowdsourcing would be in a year. Now that those predictions have come true, we spoke with him to review the year in crowdsourcing and look forward.
One of the greatest crowdsourcing fails since the term was coined became official just a few days ago. Most people have never heard of Prizes.org, but they've probably heard of the company that half-heartedly ran the crowdsourced contest platform for less than a year before giving up on it.
We catch up with Nathan Hangen, co-founder of Wordpress crowdfunding plug-in IgnitionDeck. We talk about the company's successful Robert's Space Industries campaign, it's plans, and self-run crowdfunding campaigns.
In this guest post, The Private Capital Market's Thomas Vass uses evolutionary economic theory to explain why the SEC hasn't yet issued rules around equity crowdfunding.
The co-creation company Genius Crowds announced that it is shuttering its doors last week. We had a chance to speak with the company's cofounder and CEO CJ Kettler about what went wrong.
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.
