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Crowdsourcing: Open Innovation at its Finest Business 2 Community There are approximately 7 billion+ people wandering around this planet at any given time, about 3/4 of which are considered adults and, if we're being generous, have the potential to...
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Crowdsourcing: Open Innovation at its Finest Business 2 Community - Love it
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This week on Sessler's Something, Adam reflects on the recent news that Double Fine's "Broken Age" Kickstarter project will need some additional money to rea...
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The challenges of crowd funding
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Yahoo!7 News Via Laurelle Johnson, MBA
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Even my fellow countrymen (Down Under) are in on the Crowd Funding thing - I am making it official crowd funding is Global and can compete across all of the globla markets as an alternative to investing on Wall Street.
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Video on Today: The crowd-funding site is helping some independent creators, including well known filmmakers like Spike Lee, fund their passion projects. Via Marty Koenig
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Film crowd-funding for the novice
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August 31, 2013 10:36 AM
Only 20% have ever heard of Crowdfunding. Maybe this will bump it up to 21%. 
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August 31, 2013 7:36 PM
Crowdfunding is the hottest thing in the entrepreneurial arena. #BrigitteSouci
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Micro grants for your non-profit - Nice - I can see myself using this in the future
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Intel’s blue sky research group Intel Labs is tinkering with public sensors, big data and algorithms to create experimental ways to track environmental conditions in cities. During Intel Lab’s annual show-and-tell in San Francisco last week, Intel showed off some of these futuristic concepts (as well as how to put a projector in a phone).
Here’s three ways that Intel Labs is looking to make cities better, from reducing allergies, to crowd-sourcing city programs to using LEDs to reduce traffic accidents.
Click headline to read more-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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A different take by Intel on crowd sourcing, nice idea
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Crowdsourcing occurs when media companies solicit content from the audience. Much of the time that process involves digital tools and invokes social media.
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The Aisans aren't waiting on crowd-funding either
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Peer-to-peer lending and equity crowdfunding platforms provide online marketplaces which link individuals and businesses to small-scale investors. Via P2P Consultants
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The UK getting in on the act - the future of crowd sourced funding - excellent article
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July 28, 2013 7:06 PM
Get a interesting report on future of crowd sourced funding in the UK |
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Crowd funding however, has taken off in the last few years in a manner that even its most optimistic proponents (Most Effective #Crowd #Funding Tips For Startups | @ModernLifeBlogs http://t.co/6mtGo0jsJ6...
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Best Practices for Crowd Funing
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http://http://www.crowdfundingplanning.com http://goo.gl/1k1D1 Call: Phone: 877- 448-4968 Email: Contactus@CrowdFundingplanning.com mentors: http://goo.gl/AK...
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Get educated about Crowd Fundng
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An offshoring and outsourcing solutions provider, MicroSourcing enables foreign companies to easily set up operations in the Philippines while allowing them ...
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Get connected w/ suppliers any where you need them - check it out, here is what they are doing in the Philippines
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Crowdsourcing.org Creating a Winning Design on a Crowdsourcing Platform [Infographic] Crowdsourcing.org Indeed, the speculative nature of the work has attracted ire from some groups, though crowdsourcing advocates respond that the opportunities... Via Laurelle Johnson, MBA
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Have your design reviewed on a crowdsourcing platform
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Up to £5k funding for for start-up, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to work with an...
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A micor-funding competition, cool
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NerdWallet (blog) Via Nancy Chorpenning
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Motley Fool giving you some insights on investing in Crowdfunding - start your reading here
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September 25, 2013 3:25 PM
Excellent summary of the state of crowdfunding today, and the impact of the latest rollout of Title II.
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Geoffrey Maingart: "One of the most important subjects of the conference was “crowdfunding,” the great alternative way to fund a venture, and it can be done without giving up equity or accumulating debt" ... Via The Digital Rocking Chair
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New Venture funding that even celebrities are involving themselves in
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Boston Globe Via VERONICA LESTER
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The new move in start-ups and getting funding, go global and get cash from others who buy into your dream - better have a business plan
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Entrepreneur
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The Dutch are at it again - they invented to corporation and now they are teaching us about Crowd Funding
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