Revue de Web | GMCF | ven. 14 Juin Wearable technology: This time it’s a $2,000 helmet A helmet-mounted display may be available to motorcyclists as early as 2014. While you won’t be able to use it to fire off weapons, like combat pilots…
VentureHealth’s crowdfunding portal gets blood flowing into ailing life sciences sector As life science funding slows to meagre trickle, VentureHealth is trying to speed it back up. VentureHealth has launched its online equity crowdfunding platform for life sciences companies. It provides accredited investors…
Event Ticketing And Crowdfunding Platform Picatic Now Lets Event Organizers Pay What They Want Online event ticketing startup Picatic is taking a novel new approach to signing up event organizers and getting them to use its services. The company’s new FairPay initiative…
Universities explore crowdfunding, social media to raise money Schools are experimenting with new fundraising methods, looking to harness the power of social networking and draw attention to a wide variety of projects. (Photo: Sabrina Schaeffer, AP) Universities across the…
Why due diligence matters in equity crowdfunding VentureBeat recently reported that funding marketplace MicroVentures raised over $16 million for tech startups. Over the past 2 years, MicroVentures has reviewed over 2,000 companies and through its rigorous review process, filtered the prospective list to less…
Nesta Launches Crowdfunding Directory Crowdfunding is undoubtedly in the midst of a wave of publicity at the moment, be it through commercial sites such as Kickstarter, or the increasing number of sites aiming to fund civic projects. Such is the…
Rob Ford crack scandal: How does crowd-funding money get to drug dealers? Drug dealers could get Rob Ford video money via cash, courier or other ways, if Gawker website reaches $200,000 crowd-funding goal Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is shown…
How Smart Angels Will Leverage Crowdfunding Equity crowdfunding has a large and growing base of global supporters and advocates. Every few months we see new developments in securities-related legislation, and activity kicking off in countries around the world that…
Viva Italia, Crowdfunding Leader Of The Pack The following guest post is by equity crowdfunding expert David Drake, founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a New York City private equity firm, and of The Soho Loft, a global financial…
By Bryan Sullivan and Stephen Ma, attorneys with Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae, an entertainment and business law firm in Los Angeles. With the success of the Veronica Mars and Garden State-sequel Kickstarter campaigns, it appears that the crowdfunding business model has made its way to mainstream Hollywood.…
