Crowdsourcing Week - Crowd Finance
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Insights on all things crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and open innovation. Collaborative or decentralized models of finance and investing, including equity crowdfunding, reward crowdfunding, crowd currencies, peer-to-peer lending and peer-to-peer commerce.
Crowdsourcing Week - Crowd Finance
1w ago
Greater introduction of blockchain technology in Web3 equity crowdfunding has the potential to make a significant impact by offering several advantages.
Pros and Cons of Emerging Blockchain in Equity Crowdfunding ..read more
Crowdsourcing Week - Crowd Finance
2w ago
Equity crowdfunding platforms sell shares in privately-owned companies to retail investors. Here are 5 top equity crowdfunding platforms in North America.
Top Equity Crowdfunding Sites in North America ..read more
Crowdsourcing Week - Crowd Finance
1M ago
Raising money through crowdfunding for mass causes and popular leaders like Trump continues to show it can mobilize crowds as well as generate funds.
Crowdfunding For Causes Does More Than Raise Money ..read more
Crowdsourcing Week - Crowd Finance
2M ago
Crowdfunding is likely to fund the post-production of a film that aims to raise public support for justice and freedom of Julian Assange.
Announcing Crowdfunding for Justice and to Protect Civil Liberties ..read more
Crowdsourcing Week - Crowd Finance
5M ago
Crowdsourcing is a powerful tool to help humanize a brand, which enables a better customer experience. By involving audiences in a range of business processes and initiatives it’s possible to build a sense of community, foster a more personal connection, and boost loyalty among a wide range of stakeholders that can include customers, social media followers, suppliers, distributors and stockists. Humanizing a brand can also become a valuable and powerful USP - it will be hard for competitors to copy it.
Here are four ways to use crowdsourcing to humanize a brand.
1. Ask people to contribute us ..read more
Crowdsourcing Week - Crowd Finance
5M ago
Reward-based crowdfunding platforms led by Kickstarter and Indiegogo have revolutionized the way entrepreneurs and innovators bring their ideas to life. Although both platforms began as platforms based on raising finance for arts projects, they soon expanded to include other leisure and business sectors. Today they enable individuals and startups to raise millions of dollars to fund their projects through pre-orders. This blog post takes a closer look at the Top 10 reward crowdfunding projects of all time on these two platforms, showcasing the incredible diversity and creativity that crowdfun ..read more
Crowdsourcing Week - Crowd Finance
6M ago
The emergence of new technology in artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and the gig economy is likely to continue shaping the future of crowdsourcing.
The post The future of crowdsourcing will be shaped by technology such as AI, blockchain, and the gig economy. Or, is it the other way around? appeared first on Crowdsourcing Week ..read more
Crowdsourcing Week - Crowd Finance
7M ago
As the number of Bitcoin transactions has grown, some drawbacks to crowdsourcing Bitcoin micropayments have become evident. Lightning Network solves them.
The post What Are Crowdsourcing Platforms Built With Bitcoin’s Lightning Network? appeared first on Crowdsourcing Week ..read more
Crowdsourcing Week - Crowd Finance
11M ago
An NFT can verify part-ownership of an item or asset like company stocks and real estate. The ways this makes NFTs ideal for crowdfunding deserves a look.
The post Benefits of NFTs for Crowdfunding appeared first on Crowdsourcing Week ..read more
Crowdsourcing Week - Crowd Finance
11M ago
Crowdfunding can be a powerful tool for indie film makers to raise funds for their next project, while also doubling up as a marketing exercise.
The post How to Leverage Crowdfunding for an Indie Film appeared first on Crowdsourcing Week ..read more