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A mélange of high-profile brands and personalities are trying to ride the coattails of the recent explosion in the popularity of crowdfunding. A few short years ago, crowdfunding, or raising large sums of money by soliciting many small donations, was an off-the-beaten-path grassroots movement largely relegated to artists. Not anymore. Crowdfunding has captured [...]
If you are growing a skin-care business, networking with execs at consumer products giants could open some valuable doors. But how to make those connections? A new partnership between niche crowd-funding platform CircleUp and Procter & Gamble could help entrepreneurs build those links. The goal of the partnership is to swap expertise. P&G gets [...]
Pitching venture-capital investors to launch or grow your business is a delicate process, so you need to tread carefully. There's an art to making a successful pitch, says Aaron Levie, cofounder and CEO of Box, an online content-sharing company based in Palo Alto, Calif. He has raised $162 million in five rounds of funding and [...]
Instagram’s $1 billion acquisition by Facebook sure sounds familiar for those of us who lived through the dot-com boom of the 1990s. Back then, there were two popular ideas that seem to be rising from the grave now. The first was the idea of eyeballs: regardless of how you made [...]
Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley are starting to feel a bit more optimistic, thanks to megahit deals sending fresh waves of excitement -- and cash -- into the industry and tidal waves of new possibilities in mobile, cloud and social technology. The Silicon Venture Capitalist Confidence Index jumped to 3.79 in the [...]
Facebook's decision to buy popular photo-sharing service Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock is bound to draw other venture capital firms to invest in the photo-sharing space. What's more, the deal is likely to give rise to a new wave of interest in startup funding in Silicon Valley. Instagram is valuable to [...]
The law that President Obama is set to sign this week is expected to unleash a wave of crowdfunding. That promises to give some startups access to capital they wouldn't have had otherwise, but it could set up unwary entrepreneurs for a headache. Crowdfunding is a way of raising capital that involves getting [...]
New York-based crowdfunding platform Kickstarter broke its previous record for the most any single project has raised in April with Pebble, a watch that synchs with your smartphone. So far (the funding round is not over yet), the watch has raised more than $9 million from over 61,000 backers. And while alternative funding [...]
Crowdfunding is now just a small piece of the startup funding pie. Just wait. An imminent law change could transform the donate-to-my-cause-for-a-tote-bag industry into a popular way for small companies to raise the cash they need to grow. The legislation, which Congress passed yesterday and awaits President Obama’s promised signature, is expected to unleash [...]
Crowdfunding is now just a small piece of the startup funding pie. Just wait. An imminent law change could transform the donate-to-my-cause-for-a-tote-bag industry into a popular way for small companies to raise the cash they need to grow. The legislation, which Congress passed yesterday and awaits President Obama’s promised signature, is expected to unleash [...]
While only offered at roughly a third of all credit unions, business loans are the fastest-growing segment of these member-owned institutions' loan portfolios, showing double-digit growth in three of the past five years. Could a credit union be the answer to your financial needs? "Because credit unions are member-owned financial cooperatives, we [...]
Fashion-forward friends Neil Blumenthal, David Gilboa, Andrew Hunt and Jeffrey Raider aren't your bargain-basement eyewear types. The four University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of business alumni always preferred designer frames and lenses that ran about $500 per pair--a fact they lamented. "Most glasses are marked up between 10 and 20 [...]
