November 20, 2013 @ 9:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Game developer Broken Rules is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo for their game Secrets of Rætikon. The campaign is flexibly funded and has 65 hours to go at the time of writing, having raised just over $10,000 on a $40,000 goal. Recently a hacker compromised the group’s PayPal… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 11:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

As platforms like WeFunder and hundreds of others launch to provide startup businesses with funding, *Design Your Startup* was created to bridge the gap between an idea and startup—especially for entrepreneurs outside the US. Design Your Startup is a new service company founded by Hungarian-born entrepreneur Janos Nemeth. The… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 11:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In a recent interview with WENN, Spike Lee underscores an important strategy for crowdfunders, celebrities and regular joes alike. He credits “good karma” with helping him find crowdfunding success on Kickstarter… I’ve invested in at least eight or nine projects since I got on Kickstarter…. Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 10:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Scott Hall and Aurelian Smith, Jr. are both former pro wrestlers, better known by the names Razor Ramon and Jake “The Snake” Roberts. Both have fallen on hard times after long careers in pro wrestling. Hall and Roberts alike have succumbed to the ravages wrestling… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 10:19 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Fajr Capital Advisors and Crowdfund Capital Advisors have released a report (embedded, bottom of article) to “highlight crowdfund investing as a powerful new tool to fuel the development of a vibrant entrepreneurial culture in Muslim majority markets.” Crowdfund investing builds communities, encourages risk sharing, democratizes… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 9:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The campaign for Star Citizen keeps marching on. Chris Roberts and the developers at Cloud Imperium just recently crossed two milestones: $28 million in funding and 300,000 backers. This comes on the heels of news that October was one of the most successful months for the Star Citizen… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rep. Nancy Jenkins (R-57) was one of the sponsors of a bill in Michigan aimed at creating an intrastate crowdfunding exemption, enabling Michigan businesses to raise money from non-accredited Michigan investors in equity rounds. In this short video provided by the Michigan House GOP, Rep…. Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 12:01 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Paul Niederer | Crowdfunding and Innovation Paul Niederer is the founder of the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB) and an equity crowdfunding pioneer. On his blog, he explains that crowdfunding is about more than just raising money and goes on to explain how crowdfunding… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 11:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This past summer Jeff Lynn of Seedrs took to Wired 2013 to offer a brief history of financial innovation. Specifically, he offers this history as an indicator of why crowdfunding is not doomed to fail due to “unsophisticated” investors participating in startup finance. Seedrs is one… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Inspired by a family history for entrepreneurialism and with fresh ideas on micro-financing from his time at Business School, Alessandro Rovati and two childhood friends, Francesco Fumagalli and Francesco Gatti, developed an idea for an e-commerce app that allowed users to invest in pre-production product… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

LendAcademy publisher Peter Renton recently published two video primers on two of the largest P2P lending marketplaces in the world, those being Lending Club and Prosper. If you’re new to the world of P2P lending and want to get a sense of the basics quickly,… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 10:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Ketto is a Mumbai-based crowdfunding platform that “allows individuals, corporates and NGOs to raise funds for their favorite social causes and ideas.” The company has just secured a Rs 77 lakh (~$125,000) angel round from CLUB ah! and Calcutta Angels. According to Next Big What, this… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 10:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The creators of webseries Batgirl: Spoiled were disappointed to find themselves on the wrong end of a cease & desist from Warner Bros. Entertainment, who currently owns the rights to the Batman likeness and franchise. Indiegogo promptly removed the campaign page and the project’s creators are now… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 9:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jamie Siminoff, inventor of the DoorBot and founder of crowdfunding platform Christie Street, appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank over the weekend. In the end only one shark was interested in providing capital for Siminoff and his product, which is set to appear in Staples stores… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 12:41 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

CrowdCheck Blog | Due Diligence: It doesn’t just protect investors Brian Knight of due diligence service provider CrowdCheck built upon a recent Crowdfund Insider article that explored the circumstances surrounding the Luci project on Kickstarter. Here he explains how due diligence can protect issuers and investors in crowdfunded… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 12:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The advertisement at the right was run by a Chicago-based company called American Homeowner Preservation (AHP). The crowdfunding site allows accredited investors to purchase shares of distressed mortgage pools. The irony came when the ad at the right ran on Bankrate.com, a site that specializes… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 10:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Central Falls, Rhode Island is “the smallest city in the smallest state” in the United States, but it is a densely populated city; it’s comprised of nearly 20,000 residents in an area of about one square mile. Central Falls fell on hard times in the… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 10:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

BrewDog may have started a trend among Scottish breweries. Arran Brewery is now planning an equity crowdfunding raise to launch sometime this month. Arran Brewery wants to turn to the crowd to raise capital in order to fund a push that would include a hotel,… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

FundedByMe has relaunched their crowdfunding platform with an improved look and feel. The site offers both rewards- and equity-based crowdfunding models. Over the past couple of months the team has been hard at work creating a web and brand experience that is focused on our… Read More

November 15, 2013 @ 2:01 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We’re beginning to get a better picture of what the long-rumored secondary JOBS Act bill may look like, thanks at least in part to recent remarks by Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. The full video is below… Of note is… Read More