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Soon grasshopper -- soon. First: What is this crowd-sourced funding? The bill passed! (The "Jobs Bill" apassed in April deregulates the SEC to allow emerging growth companies to raise up to a million dollars a year from an unlimited number of unaccredited investors on public forums. This means that your company can raise money in a whole new way. But it ...

Since Kickstarter is launching in the UK at the end of the month - yes it's possible ;-) I think that what you may have heard about is the issue of having crowd-based investment of companies (ie when folk get partial ownership). I am not a lawyer, but I recall reading that this is a tricky issue legally. You'll need to ask a lawyer/expert about that.

PandoDaily had a good article on a companies successful kickstarter campaign memoto. Also - here's a good study titled The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: Determinants of Success and Failure with data to review. Takeaway from the PandoDaily article can be summed up as follows: The video is key. It doesn’t necessarily have to be super slick, but it needs to ...

The most likely scenario is that the SEC will issue a interim report to solicit comments and then a final. Based on the need for their to be a process for regulating the intermediaries who are not broker/dealers-- there is a possibility that a decision about a SRO (self-regulating organization) or the use of FINRA as the SRO may come earlier and independent ...

Besides that is not available in your country, Paypal and other similar services like Square, there are already other services as Flint providing a system to accept cards directly with phone's camera without requiring the dongle, which connected to the mobile reads the magnetic stripe on the card. Another option is Bitcoin, which is also available for ...

There's nothing in either of their terms that limits you from doing so. In fact, Indiegogo's terms indirectly suggest Project Entities are "free to solicit other funding for the Project". http://www.indiegogo.com/about/terms Whether sourcing funding from both sites is a good idea for your particular project is another question...

Not quite sure what you mean by incompatible. They have different models. Good thread on Quora discussing the effectiveness of each. As for running campaigns on both platforms at the same time: not a good idea. From someone who tried: having two campaigns running simultaneously on two separate platforms was diluting the message to the point where both ...

Reading customers (government agencies, big retail customer, ...), [...] Cool Vendor award (Gartner) and Is crowd-funding a good solution to finance the open-sourcing of a proprietary product? We will need between 500K€ to 1M€. .. it seems highly unlikely. Your product seems like a B2B product for big companies (you mention government agencies). ...

It might help if you specified your location. You say you're in college so what do you need the money for?? If it's for marketing, development, accounting, branding, incorporation and so forth then you're going to need more than 5-10K. So my recommendation is to put together an executive summary and a good pitch (take a look at How do I make an angel ...