Business Funding
5 Ways Digital Marketing Powers Your Equity Crowdfunding Campaign to Succeed
When you research something online, you become a hot lead.
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Building a Business
How a Guitar Player With a Problem Turned $12,000 in Savings into a $1.4 Million Business
This contributor needed an attachable guitar amplifier. So he made one -- and raised $60,000 in his first two days.
Business Funding
Calling All Expectant Entrepreneur Moms: Here’s a New Way to Pay for Your Maternity Leave
Have you considered crowdfunding your childbirth leave? And why aren't more companies offering paid leave in the first place?
Business Funding
It Always Takes More Time and Money Than You Think to Start a Business
It is the unanticipated items that cause most startups to take longer and cost more to reach breakeven.
Business Funding
5 Useful and Strange Crowdfunded Products for Parents
If you're a busy parent looking for some helpful tools to lighten your load, check out these useful products.
By Rose Leadem
Business Funding
BrewDog plc Gives Original Investors a 2,765% Return
Equity crowdfunding has a poster child.
Business Funding
Crowdfunding Your Self-Published Book? Here Are 3 Things You Need to Know.
At first glance, a Kickstarter campaign seems temptingly easy. It's not.
Business News
Payment Card Startup Plastc Took $12.7 Million From Investors and Customers … and Then Just Disappeared
Plastc promised its card device could store information from up to 20 other payment cards, saving customers the bother of carrying wallets filled with different cards.
By Shona Ghosh
Online Presence
Facebook Now Allows You to Create Fundraisers
Facebook's strategy seems to become a societal platform with less emphasis on simply keeping up with friends and family.
By Lesya Liu
Business Ideas
Hasbro-Indiegogo Partnership Celebrates the Benefits of Open Innovation
The Next Great Game Challenge highlights how licensing and crowdfunding can intersect.
By Stephen Key
Business Funding
How to Launch a Successful Crowdfunding Project
Give yourself time to fully explore your idea and your audience.
Business Funding
5 Business-Funding ‘Rules’ to Break
New options exist for small businesses struggling to find financing. It's easier than ever to secure funding -- if you're willing to explore uncommon avenues.
By Sherry Gray
Business Funding
9 Steps to Launching a Successful Crowdfunding Campaign
If you're looking to get attention and funding for your business idea, crowdfunding might give you the initial push you need to make your dreams a reality.
Business Funding
The Craziest Things That Have Been Funded on Kickstarter in 2017
From an air pollution pen to a robot arm -- check out some of these successful out-there campaigns.
By Rose Leadem
Business Funding
3 Industries Being Disrupted by Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding is rearranging the way that entrepreneurs finance their creative endeavors, whether they're artists or engineers.
By Andrew Medal
Business Funding
3 Secret Weapons to Make Your Crowdfunding Campaign a Resounding Success
The future of crowdfunding is huge and complex, and can seem hopelessly fragmented to budding entrepreneurs. But with these tools, exposure and success can be a lot simpler.
Business Funding
How to Make a Crowdfunding Video People Actually Watch
To draw serious interest from prospective investors, you must spend time and resources in fine-tuning your message.
Business Funding
What We Can Expect for Equity Crowdfunding in the Year Ahead
The final JOBS Act regulation went live in 2016, and now the market is learning how it works.
Business Funding
This Crowdfunding Category Will Blow Up in 2017, Says the CEO of Indiegogo
David Mandelbrot believes these kinds of products will be big on the crowdfunding platform this year. He also shares his tips for successful fundraising.
Business Funding
Can Equity Crowdfunding Be Fixed?
The Fix Crowdfunding Act would bring rules that are more approachable for fundraising companies.
Business Funding
How Will Donald Trump’s Presidency Affect Crowdfunding?
Political views aside, the experts weigh in on what may come.
Building a Business
Consider Crowdfunding at Your Own Peril
Weigh the pros and cons of crowdfunding versus venture capital.
Building a Business
3 Trends That Will Shape Crowdfunding in 2017
The market is evolving, and so are the products that help drive it. Consumers and backers alike are on the lookout for customizable solutions to everyday problems.
Building a Business
4 Essential Steps for a Successful Kickstarter Campaign
When you launch a crowdfunding campaign, everyone can see if you're successful or not. Make this your motivating factor.
Building a Business
How Getting Rejected at Auditions Got Me Started as an Entrepreneur
Decide what you can begin today and you'll stop worrying about what to do with your life.
Building a Business
3 Essentials to Succeeding at Equity Crowdfunding
The new regulations grant access to vast new reservoirs of capital, but it's early days yet and the best strategies for tapping them are only now becoming discernible.
Building a Business
8 Reasons Your Business Loan Was Rejected
Getting a business loan is notoriously difficult but, seen from the lender's perspective, you can understand why.
By John Rampton