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Why Investors Are Pouring Millions into Crowdfunding
April 17, 2014 | Fortune
Investors are enthusiastically getting behind crowdfunding platforms. Why? One reason is that investors see financial potential for these platforms to reach untapped markets. It's not unlike the impact wrought by Muhammad Yunus, who brought capital deployment to the un-banked through microcredit funding, according to Wayne Kimmel, managing partner at SeventySix Capital, which has also invested in Indiegogo. "I believe that the democratization of fundraising through crowdfunding is an incredible breakthrough for entrepreneurs and nonprofits," Funds flowing into various means of raising money are reaching broader and deeper as described by Katherine Moyse
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The Democratizing Power of Crowdfunding and the JOBS Act
April 16, 2014 | Huffington Post
While the democratizing power of crowdfunding will certainly help the next generation of founders, the benefits of greater market freedom will reach well beyond company founders. The broader set of beneficiaries will initially be industrious individual investors and later the entire economy as the ultimate growth engine of freer capital markets brings fresh intelligence to bear on capital allocation throughout the system.
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How to Get Funded on Kickstarter
April 18, 2014 | BusnessWeek
Question: My company is contemplating a Kickstarter-style fundraising campaign. I’ve seen these kinds of things fail too often. How can I maximize my chances of reaching my goal?
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Venture Spending Returns to Dot-com Era Levels
April 19, 2014 | Boston Globe
The venture capital industry is pumping money into new companies at a rate not seen since the dot-com heyday at the turn of the century. Overall, in New England, 50 early stage startups received $374 million in funding in the first quarter, according to MoneyTree.
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