Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and of alternative finance.
Crowdfunding
An alternative finance method of raising money from large groups of people, as donations, as a loan, or in exchange for company equity
Preparing to Pitch: Five things you must consider when pitching to the crowd
Your startup is off the ground and the first few months have seen you gain traction in your chosen field; good job, the easy part is done. What comes next will be one of the most daunting, challenging, but ultimately rewarding, experiences you can have. Accessing...
A Sharing Economy Newcomer Aims to Disrupt the UK Energy Market
We recently ran articles on the increasing decentralization of sustainable energy production and energy distribution . In August 2017 a new type of disruptive energy supplier launched in the UK. After successfully raising almost £500,000 through reward crowdfunding,...
Crowdfunding in Sweden
Crowdfunding in Sweden continues to grow and make headlines, from startups using donations-for-rewards crowdfunding as a sales channel for innovative products to quickly achieve high turnover, to the electric vehicle manufacturer Uniti raising €1.2m through its own...
The Evolution of Kickstarter/Indiegogo
Kickstarter and Indiegogo have come along way since they opened their doors to artists and filmmakers back in 2009/2008. Now, nearly a decade on it is clear things are changing. With Indiegogo recently announcing the launch of their marketplace and with news of...
Artificial Intelligence Can Solve The Biggest Crowdsourcing Problem
The concept of crowdsourcing isn’t all that new and was born in 2002. However, the term “crowdsourcing” itself wasn’t coined until few years later when Wired used it for the first time to describe production in a marketplace that was digitally connected. Fifteen years...
Top 10 U.S. Crowdfunding Platforms (Reward and Reg CF Equity)
Online crowdfunding enables entrepreneurs and company owners to generate orders for products or trade equity for investment funds.
When Ideas Go Global – How Crowdfunding is Enabling Communities in a Small Country like Kosovo
Georg Fankhauser has spent much of his career as a Mergers and Acquisitions Consultant, successfully overseeing more than 80 company sales and acquisition projects in Switzerland, Germany and France. Since October 2016 he has also been co-founder and manager of KOSOVA...
Crowdfunding in Italy: all the numbers and platforms
A snapshot of the amount collected until 2016, with some forecasts for 2017. Having reached the end of the year, it’s time to assess once more the state of crowdfunding in Italy. In Starteed we resumed the work made in May 2016 , with a first analysis of market’s...
Diverse Crowdfunding Models Across Sectors Highlighted at CSW Europe 2016
Spread throughout the four full days of speaker sessions and panel discussions at the Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2016 conference in Brussels November 21-25 there were a number of sessions dedicated to crowdfunding. Here is a summary of them. Fredrik Barkenhammar of...
6 Ways To Rescue Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns
It is always best to get your offer right before launch. So hopefully you will not find yourself in the position where you have a failing campaign on your hands, but what if you need to rescue an offer after it has already launched? Truthfully, it is going to be much...
Online structured learning points the way forward
The internet is playing a bigger role in our lives, at work, buying our groceries, managing our finances, sharing social experiences and otherwise living our lives online. And more and more of us are studying online, at our own pace and at the times we choose....
Equity Crowdfunding vs Venture Capital
Venture capital (and angel investors and private equity) were just about the only option for early stage companies to go to when they needed cash, before equity crowdfunding came along. There is no doubt that the right venture capital firm can be a valuable partner....
Equity Crowdfunding Tips From Around The World
Invaluable tips for successful equity crowdfunding from heads of seventeen companies in eight countries in various business and industry sectors
India’s Top 10 Crowdfunding Platforms
The global crowdfunding industry generated about $34.4 billion in capital last year. No reliable numbers are available for India though it is estimated it accounts for a small fraction of this. Yet local crowdfunding sites are proliferating and drawing attention from...
How to Crowdfund Without a Lead Investor
“Lead investors” are well-versed, experienced investors who spend the time conducting due diligence on a company, and then invest a large amount in an equity crowdfunding campaign. Lead investors are a catalyst for unlocking investment from others: the funds they...
$50m Ethereum heist had no easy answer
This was not a drill. A week before the Brexit panic, panic gripped users and developers of the Ethereum blockchain when flagship application “The Dao” came under attack. The Dao is an example of a DAO: Decentralised Autonomous Organisation, a business...
Choosing a crowdfunding platform that’s right for you
Once you’ve weighed the pros and cons of equity crowdfunding versus other ways of raising money, you as a company founder will still be faced by a bewildering array of options over funding portals. In any single country where the legislation has been passed, there can...
A New Equity Crowdfunding Definition
What is the equity crowdfunding definition, anyway? Are there any boundaries to what equity crowdfunding is, and what it is not? It depends very much on who you ask. Previously three aspects were critical for an offer to be considered “equity crowdfunding”: Offers via...
Crowdfunding Maturity and the Commence of a Golden Period
In the first of a two part series, Nick NM Yap, Founder of smart, wireless music system ROCKI, talks about why crowdfunding has hit a healthy level of maturity, leading us to the brink of a golden era. Nick is a guest speaker and co-host of a special workshop,...
3 Equity Crowdfunding Campaign Tips: Rewards, Timing and Platform
Editor’s note: This is the third and last installment in a blog series on tips for executing successful equity crowdfunding campaign and four communication strategies. Here are links to Part One and Part Two. In my two previous blogs, I shared the first seven...