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Microlender Kiva gets $3M grant from Google; Aims to tackle microfinance 2.0
Late last week Google’s philanthropic arm announced it had chosen to give online microlender Kiva a Global Impact Award, which comes with a grant of $3 million.
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Taking The ‘Fun’ Out Of Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding is a trendy and cool buzzword. “Crowd” sounds sociable and “funding” is, of course, always good. But equity crowdfunding as contemplated by rules proposed by the SEC in late October is not promising.
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World Bank: Crowdfunding Investment Market to Hit $93 Billion by 2025
Crowdfunding has come a long way since 2008, when a group of UC Berkeley MBA students launched Indiegogo. It’s now a multibillion-dollar industry growing literally exponentially and worldwide
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Has The SEC Made Equity Crowdfunding Economically Unfeasible?
It seems that The SEC has created a quagmire of complicated rules and economic roadblocks.
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A Reality Check on Crowdfunding
From Silicon Valley to Hollywood to Main Street USA, young entrepreneurs tell stories of windfalls and glorious escapes from established (read: outdated) standards and practices of business.
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Why is it so hard for female entrepreneurs to get VC funding – and could crowdfunding be the answer?
Unless you spend your days gladhanding at Silicon Valley networking events, getting angel seed funding or VC investment can be tough, especially if you happen to be a female entrepreneur, according to the stats.
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Crowdfunding: Business beacon or epic fail?
Unless you have been exercising your right to be a hermit over the last few years, you’ll have heard of crowdfunding or stories of people and companies raising chunks of cash online. Last week, Arran Brewery joined the gang, announcing their plans to use crowdfunding to raise £4 million to aid expansion.
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Small Firms May Soon Turn To Crowdfunding To Sell Shares
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is considering rules that, for the first time, would allow small companies to solicit investments over the Internet and sell shares to the general public.
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