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Selequity Is A Crowdfunding Platform For Investing In Commercial Real Estate

For those who are looking to invest in real estate, finding good opportunities can be difficult. In commercial real estate, unless you know a property owner or developer, it’s nearly impossible to get...

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Glossier’s Emily Weiss Talks About Building The Modern Cosmetics Brand With...

The beauty industry is a billion dollar business and the major players are more than a century old. Glossier founder Emily Weiss took to the stage with our own Colleen Taylor at Disrupt New York 2015...

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Altschool Raises $100M From Founders Fund, Zuckerberg To Scale A Massive...

In one of the biggest funding rounds of the year in education and technology, Altschool is raising $100 million from Founders Fund, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s foundation along with other...

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The State Of Hardware Crowdfunding In Q1

If the past few quarters were not proof enough that the hardware community is increasingly using crowdfunding for early validation and consumers are willing to take risks on new products, the first...

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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Microsoft?

It’s great at business software and technology, but Microsoft still struggles to make coherent consumer products. The problem seems ingrained and cultural, starting with its constant reversion to...

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Top Legal Adviser Urges Clients to See through Reg A+ hype

/images/resized//article_49172_615x0_proportion.png?1430699475Ms. Fromberg said she is skeptical of all of the crowdfunding sites saying Regulation A+ is going to be the next big thing. One reason is...

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Investors Crowd in to Fill Equity Gap for Start-ups

/images/resized//article_49171_615x0_proportion.png?1430698115There are reasons to celebrate the growth of crowdfunding. There are few options beyond bank loans for young companies trying to raise less...

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Be My Eyes – helping blind see

Be the eyes for a blind person in need of help remotely through a live video connection if you are sighted or be assisted by the network of sighted users if you are blind. Be My Eyes is all about...

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BE MY EYES – A Whole Cornucopia of Crowdsourcing Mechanisms

/images/resized//article_49169_615x0_proportion.png?1430693629What Birgitfriemann find particularly interesting about this business model – except that it purely aims to motivate people intrinsically,...

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Startups taking over Beijing’s Zhongguancun district

/images/resized//article_49167_615x0_proportion.png?1430690999According to the magazine, Yang mainly works on crowdsourcing projects with a minimum target of 30 million yuan (US$4.83 million). However,...

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FreeBitcoins Receives $150k from a Single Investor

/images/resized//article_49154_615x0_proportion.png?1430643444FreeBitcoins received $150,000 USD from a single investor during the first day of its crowdfunding campaign, which is 30% of the total...

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The United Airlines Lawsuit Against The 22-Year-Old Owner Of Skiplagged.com...

/images/resized//article_49152_615x0_proportion.png?1430620612His website has received over 1-million hits in the past month but Mr. Zaman still hasn’t made a profit from Skiplagged.com. The $79,000 he...

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GoFundMe yanks crowdfunding campaign for Baltimore cops

/images/resized//article_49151_615x0_proportion.png?1430618963The yanking of the site comes two days after GoFundMe tightened its policy on prohibited crowdfunding after pulling campaigns on behalf of...

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Crowfunding raises millions for Nepal earthquake victims

/images/resized//article_49149_615x0_proportion.png?1430612264The catastrophe has cleared the way for technology to ride to the rescue. Over $4 million has been raised by more than 553 campaigns...

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Dave Goldberg, SurveyMonkey CEO, Dies Unexpectedly

Silicon Valley and the wider world of technology are mourning the very sudden death of Dave Goldberg, a long time entrepreneur and investor, CEO of SurveyMonkey, husband of Facebook COO Sheryl...

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The Adult Film Industry Is Getting a Crowdfunding Site

You might have already known that most crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo don't allow porn-related campaigns. Still, it's a little surprising the very profitable world of adult...

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GoFundMe stops donation campaign for Baltimore cops charged in Freddie Gray’s...

The six police officers charged in connection to the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore won't be getting GoFundMe's support The crowdfunding site suspended an account started by the Baltimore Police...

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Microsoft Acquires Surface 3 Pen Tech From N-trig

Microsoft has confirmed the acquisition of pen technology used in the Surface Pro 3 and Surface 3, from supplier and longtime partner N-trig. The Israeli company is a key patent-holder for digital...

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7 LinkedIn Tips for Promoting a Crowdfunding Campaign

Editor's Note: Twitter and Facebook are the typical social networks that crowdfunders think about when raising money for their projects. In the following guest post, Keity Adrian discusses how LinkedIn...

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Warby Parker Now Worth $1.2 Billion, Focusing On Building More...

The e-commerce eyeglasses retailer Warby Parker has raised $100 million to expand physical store locations from 12 to 20 by year’s end and to work on technology that will allow customers to conduct...

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