Earlier this week mobile scanner manufacturer Couragent Inc. announced they were launching an equity crowdfunding offering. Legally able to raise money from residents of Colorado, Illinois, New York, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, this makes Couragent the first American company to legally use investment crowdfunding. We are excited and thankful that Couragent chose to use Funding Launchpad’s [...]
View Post Colorado Companies to Watch, couragent, couragent.net, courinvestor.com, crowd funding, crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding, equity-based crowdfunding, flip pal, Fort Collins, Ft. Collins, genealogy, Gordon Nuttall, growth companies, heritage, investment crowd funding, investment crowdfunding, mobile scanner, mobile scanning, Northern Colorado, scrap booking, scrapbookingFunding Launchpad Chief Marketing Officer Dave Milliken presents the potential impact of investment crowdfunding at the [i4c] Campaign finals.
View Post crowd funding, crowdfunding, galvanize, galvanize it, i4c, i4c campaign, impact, impact business, investment, investment crowdfunding, Jim Deters, sustainableThe Funding Launchpad team is exhausted from presenting investment crowdfunding at several Denver events over the past two weeks. On July 13, Funding Launchpad presented investment crowdfunding as part of the [i4c] Campaign Summit. “The [i4c] Campaign builds better cities by investing in and rallying communities behind impact entrepreneurs.” The event was help at the [...]
View Post Andrei Taraschuk, bdnt, crowd funding, crowdfunding, Funding Launchpad, FundingLaunchpad.com, i4c, i4c campaign, investment crowdfunding, Jim Deters, mapquest, robert reichInvestment crowdfunding platform Funding Launchpad is honored to announce it has been named an [i4c] Campaign finalist! According to its website: “The [i4c] Campaign builds better cities by investing in and rallying communities behind impact entrepreneurs.” Impact entrepreneurs improve communities through a business model that solves social or environmental problems. The [i4c] Campaign invests in early-stage impact companies [...]
View Post Colorado, crowd funding, crowdfunding, DCPA, Denver, i4c, i4c campaign, impact, investment crowdfunding, Jim Deters, sustainableTired of having losing your headphones? Or spending 10 minutes untangling them every time you want to hear some music? Today’s crowdfunding feature, Flux Headphones, may be your answer. Flux Headphones have small, lightweight magnets that allow your headphones to stick to itself. Whether you wrap it to your wrist or stick it to the [...]
View Post BookEndz, crowd funding, crowdfunding, earbud, Flux Headphones, headphones, in-ear, iPhone, Just Dock It, Matt Scandora, pre-order, rewardsAre you an undiscovered American Idol? Better at singing than drawing? Today’s crowdfunding feature is Sing Me Something, an app where players sing a famous song while their opponents try to name the tune. Like many entrepreneurs who use crowdfunding, Askin Akhan, a programmer and student at University of Brighton, and Thomas De Vos, the [...]
View Post American Idol, appbackr, crowd funding, crowdfunding, Draw Me Something, investment crowdfunding, revenue share, Sing Me SomethingIt’s a show… It’s a video game… No, it’s IRL Shooter, a Melbourne-based production house that specializes in live action, videogame events. IRL Shooter is crowdfunding their next event, Patient 0, a zombie survival shooting game. And wow has the Patient 0 crowdfunding project been successful. It has raised AU$102,237 against a goal of AU$10,000 [...]
View Post art, Australia, crowd funding, crowdfunding, culture, film, games, gaming, horror, moviesThis week, Slate ran a “cover story” titled The Kickstarter Recession. The article argued “economic growth—gross domestic product—is made of money, not dreams. A sudden shift in the share of labor and capital that are devoted to dream-following would show up in national account statistics as a large fall in productivity”, which caused quite a stir [...]
View Post Brian Tsushiya, crowd funding, crowdfunding, Slate, startup guruToday’s crowdfunding feature is about acoustic solo artist James Hersch. Hersch is a pioneer user of Gig Funder, a donation-based crowdfunding platform that allows musicians to fund their tours. Hailing from Minnesota, Hersch has also spend time in music meccas Los Angeles and Nashville. He has played the college/church/community concert circuit for 33 years, including [...]
View Post 52 Songs, crowd funding, crowdfunding, crowdfunding feature, donation-based crowdfunding, James Hersch, music, reachwithme, tourFunding Launchpad Chief Marketing Officer Dave Milliken recently wrote a guest blog post for public relations firm Leverage PR titled “Crowdfunding Explain- An In Depth Look” (we did not name it, but it sure sounds great). This post provide a brief history of crowdfunding and describes the four types of crowdfunding in broad use today. [...]
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