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Crowdcube raises over £5m for itself

Crowdcube raises over £5m for itself

Before today, UK equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has raised more than £173m from over 295,000 investors to complete 426 successful raises, and described itself as the world's leading investment crowdfunding platform. Minutes ago that status was confirmed when...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 15

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 15

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team A case study in the crowdsourcing age Learn about how scholars, companies and workers are using Mechanical...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 8

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 8

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team House leaders to vote on crowdfunding, Angel Investing Two bills are among more than 20 pieces of US...

$50m Ethereum heist had no easy answer

$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 whose rules are...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 1

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – July 1

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team How crowdsourcing will build the next $100 billion company Alphabet (formerly Google) Executive Chairman Eric...

A Recap of CSW Summit Johannesburg

A Recap of CSW Summit Johannesburg

CSW Summit Johannesburg on 24 June 2016 was Crowdsourcing Week’s first event in Africa. It was held on Day Two of the InnoLive 2016 conference presented by Innocentrix. The day’s presentations can be accessed here, and here is a brief recap on some of the event’s...

Choosing a crowdfunding platform that’s right for you

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...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 23

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 23

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Crowdsourcing project to decode U.S Civil War telegrams The University of Minnesota in collaboration with The...

Digital currency Ethereum may have less than a month to live

Digital currency Ethereum may have less than a month to live

A $50m hack sent the value of digital currency Ethereum tumbling yesterday (June 17) from around $21 to below $15, reported Business Insider in Singapore in response to Ethereum's own blog post release. The money is currently currently sitting in a locked fund and...

Is Africa being transformed by the crowd economy?

Is Africa being transformed by the crowd economy?

There is a radical change taking place in Africa, much of which is as a result of the emergence of the crowd economy. There are two key underlying reasons for this assertion. 1. Not only does Africa have a population that is forecast to grow from one billion today to...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 17

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 17

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Arcade City Austin is crowdsourcing rides on Facebook With no Uber or Lyft, a group of 32,000 members has...

Countdown to Crowdsourcing Week’s first African Summit on June 24

Countdown to Crowdsourcing Week’s first African Summit on June 24

The crowd economy is set to take Africa by storm, and CSW Summit Johannesburg on the second day of Innolive 2016 on June 24 will focus on collaborative innovation with the overall theme of “The Sharing Economy – Unlocking Africa’s Potential.” Local and international...

CSW Summit Tehran Recap

CSW Summit Tehran Recap

CSW Summit Tehran on May 20 was Iran’s first crowdsourcing/crowd economy conference. The event was attended by over 250 delegates at the National Library of Iran who enjoyed inspirational panel sessions and presentations featuring a lineup of Iranian and international...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 10

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 10

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Crowdfunding mania all over According to Jacqueline Woo's article crowdfunding is expanding too fast! How can...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 3

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – June 3

OnePlus launches 'the Lab' OnePlus has launched 'the Lab', its newest program for crowdsourcing OnePlus 3 reviews. If you want to give honest, crowdsourced feedback, sign up for the program here OnePlus is taking a brave move by asking its users to tell it like it is....

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – May 27

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – May 27

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team TAONR launches an 'intergenerational' crowdsourcing platform The Age of No Retirement has launched an online...

A New Equity Crowdfunding Definition

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...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – May 20

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – May 20

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team Google is crowdsourcing the name of the newest version of Android Any idea how to name the next version of...

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – May 13

Crowdsourcing News RoundUP – May 13

Check out our curated Weekly Roundup of the breaking news and must-read thought leadership pieces on the crowd economy spotted by the Crowdsourcing Week team JOBS is bringing equity crowdfunding to non-rich people The 'Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act' is aiming to...