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Crowdfunding Raises Millions for Nepal Earthquake Victims
If you want to measure the constructive power of social media, look no further than the crowdfunding campaigns for Nepal earthquake victims, which have proliferated in the days since disaster struck the nation.
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Once Idealistic, Crowdfunding Is Now an Unholy Hybrid of Retail, Investment, and Risk
Dave Bogaty is a coffee junkie. He exclusively buys his beans from a small-batch roaster in Brooklyn and scouts out local varieties in every new city he visits.
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Solar Crowdfunding: In Need Of A Kickstart
Solar power is going intergalactic. In an announcement late last month, SolarCity SCTY +1.77%, the country’s largest installer of rooftop solar arrays, announced that private space company SpaceX had scooped up $90 million of its corporate bonds.
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Equity Crowdfunding Hits $662 Million in 2015
Booming investments in real estate are leading the way among equity-crowdfunded projects, which rose to $662 million in the first quarter of 2015, a big jump from the $483 million recorded in the final quarter of 2014.
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Alibaba Rival JD.com Launches Crowdfunding Site for Startups in China
China’s largest e-commerce companies are eager to leverage their millions of users and hoards of data for new projects. For example, Alibaba’s other businesses include healthcare management, financial services, and cloud data. Now JD.com, its smaller but still formidable rival, is branching out into crowdfunding for startups.
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Crowdfunding Nearly Tripled Last Year, Becoming a $16 Billion Industry
If crowdfunding’s been hot for awhile, last year, it was damn near on fire.
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Viewpoint: The Problem with Crowdfunding: It Doesn’t Help the Needy Crowd
I’m not a fan of crowdfunding for the celebrity cause of the moment. The Internet has made it so much easier for people to pony up money for any person or family whose story gets picked up — by social media, newspapers, network and cable shows — that it has become trendy to give.
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Will These 5 Models of Crowdfunding Replace Angel and VC Investors?
Even if you ignore all the hype around crowdfunding, there can be no doubt that it is a real alternative for entrepreneurs to achieve visibility and funding today. According to articles on Entrepreneur last year, there are now almost 1,000 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $65 billion and 270,000 jobs to the economy.
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- Investing
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