Business
Ten Ways To Avoid Getting Sued Over Your Next Kickstarter
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.…
Should Kickstarter be exclusively for non-celebrities ?
Is it unfair for famous people to use Kickstarter? CROWDFUNDING has been touted as a mechanism for artists and other creators without access to ready cash, big donors or bank loans to obtain modest to immoderate sums of money designated for specific…
L’AMF crée un guide pour le Crowdfunding !
Le financement participatif ou crowdfunding s’est fortement développé ces dernières années. Conscient de cette tendance, l’Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) publie un guide en ligne pour informer les particuliers sur les particularités et les risques de ce mode d’investissement.…
Donald Trump sets up a new Crowdfunding Platform !
The Donald is willing to fund anything (literally). FORTUNE — Donald Trump is putting his stamp of approval, but not his name, on a new crowdfunding platform that is scheduled to launch tomorrow. He’s also an investor in…
“How crowdfunding nearly bankrupted my company”
By Raf Weverbergh When we recently wrote about Smarchive, we said that it was the stuff that dreams were made of for crowdfunding platforms: after raising money on Seedmatch, they went on to raise a 7 figure financing round with…
How to raise $20 000 from prison ?
Drug dealer raises $20,000 from prison cell via crowdfunding site Pozible A FORMER Sydney luxury car dealer turned heroin trafficker who was once on death row has secured his transfer home after 20 years in foreign jails…
Google investit dans The Lending Club
The Lending Club accueille Google à son Capital. C’est une très bonne nouvelle, le crowdfunding commence à intéresser les géants de la place! Selon son communiqué, Google a pris « une participation minoritaire » non précisée au…
Hourra : François Hollande annonce le JOBS Act à la française pour septembre.
Fait marquant, hier, le lundi 29 avril, une étape essentielle pour le financement participatif a été franchie par le Président de la République Française qui l’a situé comme une vraie solution pour les entreprises lors de son discours de clôture…
Venture Capital and Crowdfunding, the future of Startups investment ?
How Venture Capital and Crowdfunding Can Coexist The one-year anniversary of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act just passed, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to write rules governing equity-based crowdfunding. In the meantime, some venture capital (VC) firms worry…
Les échecs dans le Crowdfunding sont-ils liés à la réglementation Française ?
Les premiers échecs du crowdfunding alimentent le débat sur le carcan réglementaire LE CERCLE. Après le temps de l’euphorie vient le temps des premiers échecs. Coup sur coup, Myfirst company (1) et Ecobole (2) ont annoncé des difficultés pour…