Sikh Entrepreneurs Raise Over $100,000 In 48 Hours For Wisconsin Shooting Victims
The campaign, which cracked six figures in its first 48 hours, now has $112,466 from 1,218 donors.
“The whole thing is a tribute to good people and social networks,” Pujji says, downplaying Singh and his role in the campaign.
“We anticipate that the Milwaukee Sikh community will require substantial financial support as they heal from this senseless tragedy, and therefore graciously seek donations to offer support to the victims of the shooting, the injured police officer, and their families,” the campaign page reads.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsource, crowdsourcing, indiegogocom, shooting, wisconsin-shooting
Read More →DreamIt Ventures’ William Crowder: ‘I am terrified of crowd-funding’
Crowder cautioned against crowdfunding, saying that he thought it allowed bad ideas to get funded. It leads people to invest in things they don’t actually know about, Crowder said.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, dreamit-ventures, investment, venture-capital, william-crowder
Read More →CommunityLeader- The Opportunity of a CrowdFunding Engine
CommunityLeader CEO Joseph Barisonzi provides an overview of the Apicista engine for crowdfunding. This engine will connect qualified business with disciplined investors. The most exciting feature is that it can be used as an qualified platform by local business and organizations to support a crowdfunding community. This clip is from a 1 hour presentation (http://youtu.be/EwdxeXpkn5Q) filmed in front of a live studio audience in Minneapolis, MN on June 25, 2012.
Tags: apicista, communityleader, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, joseph-barisonzi
Read More →What’s So Great About the Pebble Smartphone Watch?
Eric Migicovsky and his team of six developed Pebble and launched an amazingly successful Kickstarter campaign that raised $10.6 million — its goal was $100,000. Pebble has myriad useful functions:
-The watch doubles as a pedometer, with GPS and an accelerometer that works for bicyclists.
-The watch makes it easier to see who’s trying to get in touch with you, all while providing a useful function (pedometer) during your workout.
-Since launching an open SDK, anyone can create an app for Pebble.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourced, crowdsourcing, eric-migicovsky, kickstarter, pebble-watch, watch
Read More →How It Works for Crowdfunding Crowdsourcing a property
This video outlines a scenario where crowdfunding and crowdsourcing can worth together to find, buy, improve, and sell a property.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, how-it-works-for-crowdfunding-crowdsourcing-a-property
Read More →Yesterday dev asks for crowd-funding to launch next project
Titled Day One, the game stars a character named Ethan who’s informed that he has a rare illness.The doctor then tells him that he has very little time left to live,but Ethan discovers a strange pill that can grant him an extra 24 hours of life and a mysterious note telling him to fly to Paris.The trailer above shows off some of this narrative, as well as background info on the game straight from Pendulo’s co-founder. Crowdfunders can donate different sums of cash to help fund Day One,and there are various rewards for gamers who want to back the game.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsource, crowdsourcing, day-one, gamesplanet-labs, indie-games, pendulo-studios, yesterday
Read More →Go Public Shells Reverse Mergers Group Discloses Industry Secrets
The GPSRM Group spokesperson says, “It doesn’t have to be that way. Public company formation is not as difficult as some law firms and Finra Member broker dealers would have you believe. A company can go public and not raise capital. They can do this without public shells.”
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsource, crowdsourcing, go-public-shells-reverse-mergers, public
Read More →NZ crowd funding site goes global
Site designer Ash Lomberg said Social Backing was different to other Kiwi crowd funding sites because it was a global funding platform that allowed New Zealanders to share projects with people around the world.
“We are the first Kiwi site to go global. Having access to a global funding community will help share Kiwi ideas with the world,” he said. “We’re thinking, if we can get some of these Kiwi projects out there, hopefully we can be more successful.”
Tags: charitable-cause, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, kickstarter, kiwi, new-zealand, nz, socialbacking, under-the-weather
Read More →How Crowdfunding Could Help Solve our Country’s Housing Finance Problems
FARJHO.com aspires to become the first entrepreneurial venture to bring new housing related economic benefits via crowdfunding to the American consumers under strictly free market principles by harnessing the power of social innovations, Internet technology advancements and the timely regulatory foresights.
Tags: crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, farjho, housing-crisis, investorsally, jobs-act, peer-to-peer
Read More →The Power of Crowdsourcing
In crowdsourcing you can outsource tasks and jobs either to a small or a large group of individuals. The genuine benefit is that it provides marketers with mass intelligence to solve issues of all types at affordable prices. However, always ask yourself whether ‘the tasks are well suited to be crowdsourced and question the quality of crowdsourcing services.
Tags: crowd-wisdom, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, marketing, starbucks
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