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Top 5 Kickstarter tips from Berlin Boombox founder Axel Pfaender
Axel Pfaender, founder and designer behind successful Kickstarter project Berlin Boombox, gained 338 backers and $20,071 in total funding – surpassing his set goal of $14,000 – in only one month. All eyes were on
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“We want to power the cause economy”: Crowdsourcing platform Rally.org launches in Europe
Another US crowdfunding company has set their sights on Europe – San Francisco-based social fundraising startup Rally.org has just announced its expansion to Europe with a self-built payment system that now processes euros and a Berlin
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Crowdfunding platform Indiegogo introduces euros, new language versions
Indiegogo, the US-based crowdfinding platform, just announced the introduction of euro-based transactions, and French and German translations of its website. The news is a sign Indiegogo, among the leading crowdfunding platforms in the world,
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Crowdfunding a startup: now open for investors (but not on Kickstarter)
Good news for any budding startup using US crowdfunding platforms such as Fundable or Indiegogo – now you can attract real investors and offer shares rather than free T-shirts. The Securities and Exchange Commission, the US
Read More »Indiegogo’s Danae Ringelmann in Berlin – crowdfunding, building “a goddamn Tesla museum” and what to do with $15 million
Indiegogo co-founder Danae Ringelmann is in Berlin this week for Campus Party Europe and to help kick off the crowdfunding platform’s “deep launch” in Germany. She is speaking today at 11am and tomorrow at 5.30pm
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Where are Berlin’s seed investors? FarFromHomePage chooses crowdfunding route
International crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, this week pulled the plug on signing-up creative browsing startup FarFromHomePage. Prompting a last-minute partnership with US-based Indiegogo, the website’s CEO Manuel Scheidegger spoke to VentureVillage about the deeper, burning issue
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Leetchi comes to Germany: founder Céline Lazorthes on why PayPal needs a shake up
Leetchi, based out of Paris, is Europe’s largest social payments platform. This week, it added German to its language versions (alongside French and English) and brought Amazon on board as a first retail partner
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Is Pinterest’s integration with SoundCloud brilliant, or a big noisy mess?
“My mission to inject ‘cool’ into the mass of workout and food porn they call Pinterest just got easier,” one person commented on Adi Robertson‘s Soundcloud-Pinterest story in The Verge a few minutes ago.
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The future of crowdfunding in Europe’s investment landscape
The crowdfunding market in Europe continues to diversify. Having its roots in less complex variations like crowd donations, crowd-sponsoring and crowd pre-selling— the market is expanding to the areas of crowd-lending, crowd insurance etc.
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The 5 best Berlin Kickstarter campaigns
Fledgling companies no longer have to court traditional investors or VCs – they can now court the general populous to start-up their projects, thanks to crowdfunding platforms that allow everyone to indulge their inner
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