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How Crowdfunding Solar Power is Democratizing the Way we Finance Clean Energy
Crowdfunding campaigns for solar power are gaining traction. Pioneering startups like Mosaic are changing how we finance renewable energy.
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This Social Enterprise Runs A Global Crowd-funding Platform; Eyes $3-5 Million In Series B Funding
Welcome to Milaap Social Ventures, a social enterprise operating from Bangalore and Singapore, which has developed an online crowd-funding platform to help the unbanked and the underprivileged masses in India. Simply put, Milaap (it means 'connecting together' in Hindi) offers an RBI-approved micro-lending platform that allows the organisation to receive 'loans' from all over the world.
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Will Equity Crowdfunding Help Create The Next Silicon Valley Outside the U.S.?
This week is Global Innovation Week 2014, and as CEO of Crowdfunder.com I’ll be participating in the Global Innovation Summit (GIS) in Silicon Valley. The focus of the GIS conference is on ecosystem development. Which is a great topic and comes as no surprise, as the conference is led by Victor Hwang and Greg Horowitt, venture partners at T2 Ventures and authors of The Rainforest: The Secret to Building The Next Silicon Valley.
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Crowdfunding Platform Nyaya Raises Cash for Healthcare for Nepal’s Poor
In December, the New York-based NGO officially launched its Crowdfund Health portal to solicit donations to fund health care for the poor.
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How to Assess a Social Enterprise
How do we really know when an organization is doing quality work we should rally behind and having a real, positive impact, versus just using the right buzzwords?
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Is equity crowdfunding the next channel capital source?
Kirill Bensonoff, founder of ComputerSupport.com, is investigating a nontraditional source of capital as his IT services company gears up for expansion: crowdfunding.
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A Crowdfunding Site For High-Impact Solar Projects
Lack of access to financing can keep many otherwise worthy solar energy projects from being built in poor and underserved areas, but a solar crowdfunding site is helping to connect individual investors with solar energy businesses and working to bring affordable solar energy to communities around the world.
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Where Does Crowdfunding Go From Here? Experts Explain
Crowdfunding is a genuine phenomenon. If you include—as many people do—the newly created market for “private issuers publicly raising” or PIPRs using the new SEC rules allowing general solicitation of accredited investors allowed under the 2012 JOBS Act signed by President Obama, 2014 could see over $10 billion of crowdfunded transactions. Crowdfunding is going mainstream.
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