Crowdfunding On Track to Become a $5bn Industry This Year

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  Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 Top Stories Visit Our Site Follow Like RSS Crowdfunding Market Grew 81% in 2012, Finds massolution Industry Report — Over a million crowdfunding campaigns raised $2.7 billion in 2012, and the market is expected to nearly double again this year, according to a comprehensive global crowdfunding industry report …

An Assessment of the International Commons Conference in Berlin: Year Zero of a Global Political/Policy-Oriented Commons Movement

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Here is my assessment of the International Commons Conference held in Berlin, at the start of the month: With the Commons Strategies Group (David. Bollier, Silke.Helfrich,, Bea Busaniche, and myself) and associates from the Heinrich Boll Foundation (Heike.Loeschmann) and E5 (Julio Lambing), as well as a host of enthusiastic volunteers …