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Financial Post Regulators mulling rules to allow crowdfunding in Canada Financial Post Canada's biggest capital markets regulator is preparing rules that would allow equity crowdfunding for the first time, something early-stage companies have been... 
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VC Experts provides data on private company valuations, share prices, deal terms of financings, as well as industry leading information and documentation for participants in the Private Equity & Venture Capital industries.
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Good Analysis of the VC world | Venture Capital Survey Silicon Valley Third Quarter 2013
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Crowdsourcing is often used as a means to generate funds for a small business, but what about generating ideas? Four experts share the benefits of harnessing the power of a crowd, and some tips for how to do it successfully. Via TechinBiz
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How to Do Crowdsourcing - read on
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Samsung's open innovation. Open innovation is a Samsung initiative to identify and grow the technologies and infrastructure of the future.
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Samsung's Open Innovation website for more information on crowdfunding and other aspects to the Samsung Open innovation model, check here
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Crowdfund Insider
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interesting little website for identifying different crowdfunding opportunities, as well as where to suggest your crowdfunded activitiy
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CrowdFundingPlanning is a Complete Solution for a Fast and Successful CrowdFunding campaign empowering SMBs, Start-ups, Entrepreneurs, CF Expert Professionals and Investors Community.
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More great crowdfunding examples
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Crowdfunding a New Danger for Clients?
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WS now claiming its a threat to their clients, more likely a threat to them
Too late, they are now disrupted, $$ will migrate away from traditional Wall Street investments towards a crowd funding model, WS has proven it can't be trusted to invest with.
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): This is welcome news for all, patent trolls are a blight on innovation and invention, everyone should be telling their congress persons and senators to be supporting this bi-partisan bill
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HELSINKI (AP) -- A team of ex-Nokia engineers is launching a smartphone based on the former world No.
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(from the Curator of IoT and Wearables): Note to Self: Listen to your engineers when they tell you your design sucks and needs to be improved Because this is one of those lessons when MSFT s/w is not the answer and then your (best?) engineers quit and do their own startup and then tell you off in the marketplace for not listening to them the 1st time they told you that you needed a better solution.
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The Guardian How crowdfunding kept one London theatre open for Christmas The Guardian The latest show in Hackney, at the Yard Theatre, might never have happened if it wasn't for the generosity of local businesses, community groups and members of...
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How crowdfunding is yet another alternative to banking community who have become too strident since the 2008 metldown, the rules for investment will now be revisited, banks don't like competition
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Design Your Startup Bridges The Gap Between Startup & Crowdfunding
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Fueled by the momentum of the JOBS Act, crowdfunding is catching on in a big way in the consumer space. As platforms like WeFunder and hundreds of others launch to provide startup businesses with funding, Design Your Startup was created to bridge the gap between an idea and startup
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One Spark crowdfunding festival increases prize money, attracts international ...
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): One Spark, billed as “the world’s crowdfunding festival,” aims to match creators in the fields of art, innovation, music, science and technology with resources to help support their ideas. Innovation is the event’s new category.
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How to Understand the New World of Crowdfunding NBC 10 Philadelphia Although crowdfunding has been around in some shape or form for centuries – praenumeration is considered an early form of this business model – it has just started to become...
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Excellent on the fundmentals and even explains the new law pertaining to crowd funding
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Energy Collective
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Interesting "What If" analysis, worth it to read
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VC Experts provides data on private company valuations, share prices, deal terms of financings, as well as industry leading information and documentation for participants in the Private Equity & Venture Capital industries.
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Lowering expectations for VC's,(and others) expressing the need to audit the financials for crowd-funded ventures, if you do crowd funding do not make this mistake!
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Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd. (SAMSUNG) has conducted the Global Research Outreach ("GRO") program, which is a call for research proposals from the world's leading universities, since 2009(GRO).
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Excellnt Approach by Samsung to help drive new tech advancements for MRAM (Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory) using an open innovatin framework. Although it is NOT clear where the IP, royalty and revenue sharing is in their model, and so that is all up in the air and makes this a harder sell to the truly creative who would have something to add to this.
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Open innovation with external partners enriches our research and development performance. Open Innovation is the key to Samsung new business creation. Many of our current products were created by incorporating the technologies from venture companies.
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And here is Samsung's version of Intel Capital but perhaps more user friendly than other corporate ventuiring firms? We shall go forth and find out and let you know.
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Our unique and powerful CrowdFunding preview platform helps, acquires,incubates, and accelerates CrowdFunding at its early stage.
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More software for Crodfunding, the competition for investment $$ is going to increase
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Local software may jumpstart crowdfunding Northern Colorado Business Report FORT COLLINS – Crowdfunding – a high-tech, online method for raising small amounts of start-up cash - is poised to reach multi-million-dollar levels worldwide, and entities...
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New software for supporting crowdfunding, Wall Street, you are in trouble for being poor invesment analysts, as you do not pay attention to what people are really buying and why. That is why your analysis' are mostly wrong. You do not understand customers, yet you think you do. Consider yourself served.
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Rather than make you sift through all of these projects, we're tracking down the best or most notable crowdfunding projects from around the web and delivering them to you in a simple roundup. If there's a project that you've ...
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Nice approach to sifting through the different ventures gettting funding, worth a read to see whats going to be next
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Commercially available as instrumentation designed for macro-size sampling, Raman spectroscopy drew interest for providing information similar but complementary to infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy for chemical identification.
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): Raman technology unlocks carbon nanotubes potential In late September, Stanford Univ. researchers unveiled the first working computer built entirely from carbon nanotube transistors. The computer contains 178 transistors formed from several tens of thousands of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
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Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has unveiled a new strategy for entrepreneurship that will see 161 start-ups emerge from the university in the first three years.
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(from the Curator of IoT & Wearables): Nice to see the home country and TCD getting support for startups that can pass muster, hopefully the big fella (Intel) will help 'em out
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NYC Teen Is Crowdfunding: Forumla 1 Race Car
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Here's one way for you to get your won Formula 1 Racing Car, Crowdfund it
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TechSpot Star Citizen crowdfunding campaign reaches $30 million Joystiq Cloud Imperium Games's crowdfunding campaign for Star Citizen continues to barrel along and doesn't seem intent on stopping yet, as creator Chris Roberts has announced that the...
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There are multiple companies from many diverse industries getting crowdfunding / sourcing this industry is going to blow wide open as an alternative to Wall Street, Angels and Venture Capitalists
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Arran Brewery in crowd-funding push Offlicence News The craft ale brewer plans to upgrade its brewery on Arran, develop two new breweries on the mainland – the Forth & Clyde Brewery and the Loch Earn Brewery, open Scotland's first sake brewery, set...
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Not just for technies, even breweries are involved in crowdfunding,
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And now the Canucks are getting in on crowdfunding, there really isn't any issue of if they should, just how it should be regulated