nowstreetwire: Maximize Retirement Growth with P2P Lending

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

COMPLIMENTARY WEBINAR Maximize Retirement Growth with P2P Lending November 13th at 1pm EST With high volatility and low interest rates driving retail investors away from public stock markets and conventional banks, more and more investors are turning to their peers for investment returns. Today, crowdfinance asset classes such as p2p …

GE Ventures Embraces Crowdfunding with OurCrowd Partnership

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, November 6 Top Stories Visit Our Site Follow Like RSS GE Ventures Embraces Crowdfunding, Partners with OurCrowd — Earlier this week, another big player joined the crowdfunding ranks, as Israeli platform OurCrowd announced that it has signed a co-investment agreement with GE Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of GE. According to …

Now Street Wire: Comparative Analysis of Crowdfinance Offerings

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance, Community Development Solutions, Sustainability News, Crowdfunding

Comparative Analysis of Crowdfinance Offerings October 30, 2013 by Dara Albright, NowStreet Wire Dara Albright is the Editor in Chief of NowStreet Wire and Managing Director of Crowdnetic, the leading provider of market data solutions for the burgeoning industry of crowdfinance. She is a thought provoker and frequent speaker on topics relating to …

Now Street Wire: Comparative Analysis of Crowdfinance Offerings

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Comparative Analysis of Crowdfinance Offerings October 30, 2013 by Dara Albright, NowStreet Wire Dara Albright is the Editor in Chief of NowStreet Wire and Managing Director of Crowdnetic, the leading provider of market data solutions for the burgeoning industry of crowdfinance. She is a thought provoker and frequent speaker on topics relating to …

CrowdSourcing.org – As Seen On TV’ Enters Crowdfunding Space

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, October 30   Follow Like RSS As Seen on TV Opens Crowdfunding Platform to the Public — Everyone knows the iconic As Seen on TV brand. Earlier this week, the company launched its crowdfunding platform (powered by white label solution Launcht). We chat with As Seen on TV’s CEO Ron Pruett to …

Smart Planet Weekly: Can we crowdfund gun control?

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

  SmartPlanet Weekly October 27, 2013 A members-only preview of our weekly magazine, delivered every Sunday.   From the Desk of … Gun control advocates in the U.S. haven’t made strides nationally in many years. Is it time for the crowd to try tackling gun violence locally? Plus, Chris Nelder is …

crowdsourcing.org: Luis von Ahn’s Duolingo Makes Splash with CNN, BuzzFeed Partnerships

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

Wednesday, October 16 Top Stories Visit Our Site Follow Like RSS Duolingo Community Now Translating CNN, BuzzFeed Articles — Crowdsourcing translation and language learning company Duolingo announced this week that it’s partnering up with media outlets CNN and BuzzFeed to translate content into French, Spanish, and Portuguese. We take a look at Duolingo’s …

Only Three More Days to Tell Your Friends About Mosaic

Jay OwenGreen Prosperity, Crowdfunding

Only Three More Days to Tell Your Friends About Mosaic Do you have friends or family who’d be interested in investing at Mosaic? Send them to http://mos.ai/sun_bonus to claim their $10 new investor bonus! From clean energy ending India’s blackouts to America’s new “Green Elephants”, Mosaic’s October Newsletter brings you the top …

Is the European Commission on Track to Develop EU Crowdfunding Rules?

Jay OwenCrowdfunding

  Wednesday, October 9 Top Stories Visit Our Site Follow Like RSS   European Commission Soliciting Comments on Crowdfunding — We look into the latest move by the European Commission, a legislative body, to solicit comments on crowdfunding, and why the move is not necessarily a big deal, just yet. …

Dutch Wind Turbine Purchase Sets World Crowdfunding Record

Jay OwenGreentech, Crowdfunding

LONDON — Raising €1.3 million in just thirteen hours, 1700 Dutch households that came together to buy shares in a wind turbine have set a new world record for crowdfunding. All 6,648 shares in the electricity from the Vestas V80 2-MW wind turbine were sold, at a share price of €200. Each household …