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For any startup or business with a new to world idea, the biggest challenge is to create a rock solid proof of concept trial. If executed successfully, it is valuable collateral for any business,...
It has often been said “Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money” But once the money actually starts, and continues to come in, the one thing you can be sure of is...
Kevin Bacon, the star of Footloose, Animal House, A Few Good Men, and Apollo 13 was also at the centre of the Kevin Bacon Game back in the mid nineties – a game that illuminated the way for the...
One must continually question government stance on over-regulation and inconsistent policies protecting the crowd from self-harm. Currently, anyone can take their hard-earned life savings to any...
Regardless of the type of campaign, and whether it be on a “pledge-model” platform or one that facilitates investment, crowd funding initiatives must straddle the emotional and rational motivators...
The old philosophical thought of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” could very well have been written about crowd funding. You could have...
At a time of low trust in governments, crowd funding of civil-natured projects is reducing the chance of projects being selected for purely political reasons. Governments are turning to crowd...
The space race in the sixties saw opposing camps fighting tooth and nail to get ahead of each other to go further than any man had ever gone before. Through the spirit of healthy competition, the...
Many projects that fall short of reaching their funding target do so because the project creator has just been too ambitious with their funding goal. But with a tipping point like that on iPledg,...
In the post-GFC environment (or as some have termed “the New Reality”) most business leaders would welcome sustained revenue increases or market growth. Even for those new industries that have...
In crowd funding there are no losers. Sure, victory is sweet for those who meet (or exceed) their funding target first time around. But there are the spoils of war, even for those who have...
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In raising funds for a project, making pre-sales or taking forward orders has been a way of getting in the money needed. In raising funds to make production runs, to start marketing campaigns, to...
Indigenous communities around the world are faced with a greater number of challenges than ever before as governments globally struggle with funding in a post GFC environment. But, as ever,...
In times of flood, fire, tsunami and other natural and man-made disasters, the broader community is called upon to give to the relief effort. But much of the “effort” to be initiated is undefined,...
2013 was earmarked as the Year of The Entrepreneur. In April 2012, President Obama signed the JOBS Act, paving the way for investment crowd funding to see in the New Year, bringing an estimated...
Philanthropy is something that has long been associated with the wealthy. The masses were excluded from being called “Philanthropists” as it was a term reserved for the “Haves” who would do their...
Over the past two years we have seen some emerging giants in crowd funding platforms. But the success of a crowd funding campaign not necessarily linked to the size of the platform. It is about the...
OK - time for a bit of fun. Are these A-listers really endorsing this really cool crowd funding platform, or is it just one of iPledg's creative guys having a bit of fun with his new editing...
Many sectors of the world economy are getting tighter. There is seemingly less cash about for charitable organisations, and more people in need of the work and relief these organisations provide....
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