Collaborative or decentralized models of finance and investing, including equity crowdfunding, reward crowdfunding, crowd currencies, peer-to-peer lending and peer-to-peer commerce.
California-based Tipalti, founded in 2010 by serial entrepreneur Chen Amit and underground VC Oren Zeev, was created to address the difficulties associated with making mass global payments. It does this through a comprehensive cloud-based solution that automates all...
Blockchain is probably the most remarkable innovation of the modern digital world. It remains one of the most promising technologies with the potential to transform and improve the global economy. Many businesses are keen to adopt Blockchain technology to increase the...
The U.S. Department of Labor recently put out a report on the state of freelancers and gig workers. As one of the largest studies in the space, it showed that the percentage of short-term workers was actually down slightly from 2005 when the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies provide a revolutionary way of creating, maintaining, and securing decentralized networks. The emergence of these networks has enabled a whole range of decentralized applications; applications that threaten to...
The Mayor of London recently announced his annual allocation of £1 million available to a range of grassroots community projects. Operating in conjunction with UK crowdfunding platform Spacehive, and co-ordinated through the Greater London Authority, community project...
Depending on who you ask, blockchain may be humanity’s greatest Ponzi scheme or the solution to everything from cancer to credit card transaction fees. The reality most certainly lies somewhere in between. When we theorize about the future of disruptive tech, the...
You can’t look in the news today without some Bitcoin enthusiast or some dumbfounded reporter trying to make sense of cryptocurrencies. It’s seemingly replaced Game of Thrones as the subject of every coffee shop conversation, yet very few actually understand the...
If you have an idea for a mobile app, you’re probably excited to get started with it – and you should be. Globally, the mobile app market generates about $60 billion in revenue every year, which means that mobile apps present a huge opportunity for new businesses. But...
The US crowdfunding sector has grown far bigger and wider than the reward projects initially associated with Indiegogo and Kickstarter. Groundfloor is a real estate investment platform that enables everyday Americans to have a fractional involvement in short-term,...
While the tech world has its eyes set on ICOs - the funding frenzy of 2017 - an often overlooked currency seems to be shaping the way forward for tech giants. Trust is the most important currency and shouldn’t be ignored by individuals and organizations. Early in...
“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.” Source: Wikipedia.There are four main...
[INFOGRAPHIC – UPDATED JANUARY 2018] Bitcoin is a virtual currency that uses Blockchain technology for secure payments and storing money electronically, without requiring a bank or a person’s name. Satoshi Nakamoto created this cryptocurrency back in 2009. The biggest...