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SONY DSC Twine – the next big Kickstarter hit? Is Twine going to be the next big Kickstarter hit? With three weeks to go, the crowdfunding campaign for Twine...
bill Crowdfunding bill On November 3, 2011, the US House passed bill H.R. 2930, “the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act”. The bill, which is...
research Crowdfunding Science Together with two scientists, RocketHub is organizing the #SciFund Challenge. “The #SciFund Challenge is an experiment – can scientists use...
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    Twine – the next big Kickstarter hit?

    Posted on December 12, 2011 | No Comments
    Is Twine going to be the next big Kickstarter hit? With three weeks to go, the crowdfunding campaign for Twine has resulted in over $300,000 in pledges – almost hitting 1000% of the original funding goal. What is Twine?

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    Crowdfunding bill

    Posted on December 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
    On November 3, 2011, the US House passed bill H.R. 2930, “the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act”. The bill, which is currently in the Senate, will allow crowdfunding up to $2 million in investment capital directly from individuals without having to register the investors with the SEC....

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    Crowdfunding Science

    Posted on December 8, 2011 | No Comments
    Together with two scientists, RocketHub is organizing the #SciFund Challenge. “The #SciFund Challenge is an experiment – can scientists use crowdfunding to fund their research? The current rate of funding for science proposals in the U.S. is ~20%.”, as Vlad Vukicevic (co-founder and CTO of RocketHub)...

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    First crowdinvesting platform with ROI

    Posted on November 30, 2011 | No Comments
    CrowdAboutNow is the world’s first crowdfunding platform for direct investments in start-up companies with a return on investment (ROI) for its investors. Today, the first of the 10+ funded companies at CrowdAboutNow, will transfer its profit on investment to the 21 involved investors. The investors...

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    An evolutionary pep pill

    Posted on November 10, 2011 | No Comments
    Evolutionary economics is the notion that economic development incorporates ideas of an evolutionary process. The economy is constantly changing and evolving. Firms, the vehicles of technology, are constantly adapting to exogenous forces in the market, thereby trying to improve their fit in an ever changing...

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    Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency of Crowdfunding (Part 2)

    Posted on October 16, 2011 | No Comments
    In my previous article, I highlighted the main reasons for the low cost effectiveness and efficiency of crowdfunding (CF). In this article, which is based on the same study [1], the focus is put on possible solutions and actions which should help to overcome these deficiencies. Similar...

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    The future of crowdfunding

    Posted on October 10, 2011 | No Comments
    This is an excerpt from “Finance 2.0 Compilation Book” that will be released after the Live Webcast “Innovation in Finance”. Want to know more about the future of crowdfunding and other financial innovations? Subscribe now for free and follow the webcast live on October 25, from...

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    Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency of Crowdfunding (Part 1)

    Posted on September 20, 2011 | 2 Comments
    With an average growth rate of more than 70 percent per year, crowdfunding (CF) initiatives on the internet have increased more than nine fold since 2006. Among these initiatives, various have entered the venture capital market by offering financing opportunities for start-up companies. At the...

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    Crowdfunding: An Open Playground for Entrepreneurs

    Posted on May 12, 2011 | No Comments
    Successful innovation and entrepreneurship is not a straightforward and linear process of events. The conventional economic way of thinking that the most optimal solution shall at some point in time come forward as the obvious optimal end product, a neoclassical economic outcome, is long since...

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    The investor’s monopoly

    Posted on April 19, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Quite ironic actually, that we live in a capitalistic free market system where competitiveness is valued above all and is claimed to be able to solve all problems in the world, while the investment system for upcoming businesses is in fact highly monopolized and controlled...

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