Poirot, Stephen Fry and Billy Bragg to transform East London dock
Spacehive, which calls itself the world’s first crowdfunding site for public space projects, is calling for Londoners at large to volunteer and contribute to the scheme.
Tags: cody-dock, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, hucule-poirot, public-space, spacehive
Read More →Bookly Editions
Our mission:
1/ propose a dedicated website and an audience to unpublished authors
2/ federate a strong community of enthusiats and supporters (investors) on new book projects
3/ publish and promote (ebook & paperbook) all projects that reach the investments objectives
4/ share the revenues between authors and projects investors based on higher rates (French market)
“A strong community and high motivation can move mountains.”
Tags: auteur, author, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, ebook, ditions, literature, littrature, livre, publishing
Read More →Local catering business wins $1K at crowd-source event
Ideas ranged from a local taxicab app for smartphones to an emergency day care; from a pop-up restaurant specializing in desserts and cocktails to a mural project at a local elementary school. Each idea was different from the next, and that, according to Oliver Platts-Mills, was entirely the point. Platts-Mills, the festival’s innovation coordinator, said he wanted a variety of ideas, whether art, technology, non-profit or local business. He said this was to give opportunity to a breadth of organizations, but also to keep the audience interested and excited.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, donation, innovation, tom-tom-founders-festival
Read More →GigFunder.com Empowers Music Fans to Bring Their Favorite Musical Acts to Hometowns Across the Country
Artists are already utilizing GigFunder in a variety of ways. Cowgill, an indie band from Boston, plans to use GigFunder to help fill out its Northeast and Midwest tour in late summer. Artists like Kat Parsons from Los Angeles and onelinedrawing from San Francisco, plan to use GigFunder to play one-off house shows for their biggest fans across the country. Indie rock bands Oh No Oh My from Austin and American Revival from Minneapolis are putting together tours based on their fans’ locations and Christian artist, Dan Macauley, is using GigFunder to fund church-based worship events across the country.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, fundraising, gigfunder, tour-sites
Read More →Flip Flops for Good: Kickstarter Company Wants You to Design a Pair
FlyingFlips lets shoppers vote for their favorite sandal designs, which they’d like to see become available for retail. The most-popular options will be manufactured and the artists will receive a portion of the sale proceeds.
“We’re trying to build a really good social network of graphic designers,” FlyingFlips designer co-founder Trevor Broad told Mashable. “We call it open source flip flops.”
The site, which is hoping to receive funding from Kickstarter, says its flip flops are eco-friendly, made from 20% to 30% recycled materials, and lets you trade in used pairs.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, flyingflips, graphic-designers, kickstarter, sanda-designs, sandals
Read More →CROWDFUNDING INDUSTRY REPORT (ABRIDGED VERSION): Market Trends, Composition and Crowdfunding Platforms
This abridged report is compiled from data included in our complete Crowdfunding Industry Report which provides an in-depth analysis of crowdfunding market trends and composition, and an overview of Crowdfunding Platforms (CFPs) that explains their functionality and the different models at play.
Tags: abridged, industry, massolution, report, research
Read More →OnSetStart funds "Hidden Truth", the truth about Princess Diana’s Death.
The explosive crime thriller HIDDEN TRUTH Follows the astonishing story of the investigation in which Evidence of government cover-ups, the murder and intimidation of witnesses, plus a Previous assassination attempt in which cars were tampered with to produce exactly the same results.
Tags: charity, conspiracy, crowd-funding, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, diana, film-rewards, hidden, princess, truth
Read More →Crowd funding rules hold promise, raise questions
The JOBS Act, though, opens the field to an endless array of equity investors and could allow sustainably focused enterprises the ability to link-up with investors that believe in their mission.
“There are all kinds of people out there with all kinds of different motivations for investing,” said Kassan. “Some might be looking for the next Google. Some might be looking for a business in their community. Some might be looking for businesses that promote women’s equality. It opens up a huge new potential group of investors.”
Tags: american-jobs-act, crowdfunding, crowdsource, crowdsourcing, equity-crowdfunding, president-obama, sustainable-economy
Read More →NZ Design Company Release Timelapse and Motion Control Devic
“Our goal was to reach a minimum of $150,000 so we can get our first production run underway, we are excited to say that after 6 days we will definitely be manufacturing and there is still fifty days left on Kickstarter before the funding period expires” says Chris Thomson.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, diy, genie, kickstarter, queenstown, startup, syrp
Read More →The US JOBS Act in a Nutshell: How it will impact the crowdfunding entreprenuer and the platforms.
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An overview of the US JOBS act ,its impact on how crowdfunding will work in an easy to understand and non-legal narrative.
Tags: crowdfunding-europe-law, crowdfunding-law-us, us-jobs-act
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