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Join Darren Westlake of Crowdcube on #Crowdchat

Join Darren Westlake of Crowdcube on #Crowdchat

Are you an entrepreneur or investor with questions on crowdfunding for equity? Here is your chance. Darren Westlake, co-founder and CEO of Crowdcube - the equity based crowdfunding platform in U.K.  - will be talking all things crowdfunding and equity on our next...

Announcing CSW Summit: Crowd Innovation for Enterprises

Announcing CSW Summit: Crowd Innovation for Enterprises

The business operating climate in the UK as well as globally, is rapidly changing with emerging disruptive technologies, increasing cost of business and bigger competition. Remaining competitive in such an environment needs innovation, an agile team and strategic...

5 Benefits of Crowdsourcing Principles for Employee Engagement

5 Benefits of Crowdsourcing Principles for Employee Engagement

Employee satisfaction surveys, online assessments and performance reviews could soon be a thing of the past. Rejoice! These employee engagement strategies have been uncomfortable at best and further deepened the divide between employees and upper management. How can...

The Art of CrowdWriting

This is a fact: you can write a book in few hours. And how you do that? By crowdwriting. When I launched my company NulisBuku.com, the first online self-publishing company in Indonesia, back in 2010, I thought people would write a book in 'traditional' way as I knew...

Public Sector Crowdsourcing in Malaysia – Citizen Engagement

People around the world are now jumping on the crowdsourcing bandwagon for a variety of intended outcomes.  Being in the innovation space, its fairly encouraging to see that the Malaysian government’s foray into crowdsourcing had, in fact, started a few years ago (and...

Hyperloop: Will the Future of Hi-Tech be Open Source

Hyperloop: Will the Future of Hi-Tech be Open Source

So you have heard about Elon Musk’s Hyperloop, a futuristic idea to transport passengers, faster and more efficiently than even air travel. Elon has released a 57-page report that outlines his concept that engineers from Tesla and SpaceX have worked on for 9 months....

Crowdfunding’s Latest Invasion: Real Estate

Crowdfunding’s Latest Invasion: Real Estate

This post written originally appeared on Forbes. Crowdfunding is rapidly changing the real-estate investment market, offering developers new ways to finance projects, small investors a way in, and the socially conscious an avenue to support their local communities—and...

Why the Sharing Economy is More Than a Business Model

Why the Sharing Economy is More Than a Business Model

The Sharing Economy is disruptive. We all know that it has turned ordinary people into entrepreneurs, is helping save precious resources and helping consumers stretch their dollars. But the single most important aspect of the sharing mentality is more than all the...

A Look at Italy’s Enacted Regulations for Equity Crowdfunding

A Look at Italy’s Enacted Regulations for Equity Crowdfunding

On Friday 12th of July, the CONSOB – the Italian financial securities commission – proudly announced that Italy was going to be the first country in Europe to enact regulations for equity crowdfunding. The CONSOB commissary said its hopes were that the law will not...

Earning Through the Shared Economy?

Earning Through the Shared Economy?

You monetize the sharing economy. You rent out your car, spare room, tools and freelance as a writer, designer or coder. You are making a sweet income, tapping into the the collaborative offerings and all is well. Then April 15 comes around and brings along tax...

Singapore Day 2013 – Many Stories, One Singapore

Singapore Day 2013 – Many Stories, One Singapore

August 9, 2013 is the 48th celebration of Singapore National Day and every year it is celebrated with a National Day Parade (NDP). Singapore uses the opportunity not just to celebrate the nation’s history and heritage but also as a nation building exercise. Organizers...

Crowdfunding In Europe: The Top 10 ‘Peer-to-Peer’ Lenders

Crowdfunders generally fall into different categories: equity, donation, reward, and debt. The last is also known as microfinancing — and commonly referred to in Europe as “peer-to-peer lending.” Here are the top 10 up-and-coming peer-to-peer lenders e making...

How the Young and Dynamic Are Revitalizing Detroit

Detroit, the iconic American city will never leave the public eye. Once representative of America's manufacturing powers, the city has fallen with the challenging economic climate, even recently filing for municipal bankruptcy. Many see this city as a land of missed...

Event: Massolution NYC 2013 to Underscore Crowdcentric Businesses

massolution NYC 2013: Learn how major enterprises are designing and deploying crowd-based strategies to foster innovation, fuel growth, drive sales and connect and engage with customers. This two-day inaugural conference is being produced by massolution, a research...

Crowdfunding’s Latest Invasion: Real Estate

This post written originally appeared on Forbes. Crowdfunding is rapidly changing the real-estate investment market, offering developers new ways to finance projects, small investors a way in, and the socially conscious an avenue to support their local communities—and...

Is Connectivity a Human Right: Facebook Wants Internet For All

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a plan to get the world unconnected citizens connected via a mobile data or internet connection. The reason Mark Zuckerberg says this is important is because unconnected citizens are losing out the knowledge economy propelling the...

Copenhagen: Innovation Begins at a Public Park

Have you been to public places that discourages a good conversation, has uncomfortable seating or is just not inviting? Copenhagen thinks about public spaces in a dramatically opposite way. Imagine a space that allows to swing and relax, admire the clouds and even...