Growth Rate of the 4 Major Crowdfunding Categories

Crowdfunding is not just a clever coinage of two words anymore. It is also not just a buzzword. Crowdfunding has become a trend for...

Interview With the Man Behind the Potato Salad Campaign

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjaJ7R-kkFM?rel=0&w=640&h=480] A Columbus man Zack 'Danger' Brown sought out to make the best potato salad by reaching out to his supporters on Kickstarter for...

How to Fulfill Your Crowdfund Campaign Promises

Having a successful crowdfunding campaign can make you feel like a million bucks. That success soon turns into a need for action because all...

Five Important Lessons for Entrepreneurs

Is there a recipe for success? There might be one but no one has found it yet. Is there a way...

Why You Need an Intellectual Property Strategy For Crowdfunding

It's a scary thought. Having your intellectual property stolen isn't just something that can cost you from a dollars and cents standpoint. There's also...

5 Keys to Nailing the First 60 Seconds of a Presentation

A presentation has the ability to make or break a deal. While there will be follow-ups to every presentation before the deal...

7 Tips for Improving Your Crowdfunding Efforts

It can be difficult to get a crowdfunding campaign noticed today. There are several competing products, services, and ideas out there at any given...

How to Leverage a Working Capital Loan

Small businesses face numerous challenges. Unfortunately, most of those challenges are recurring and there are seldom any long term solutions to those problems. The...

How Neil Young’s Pono Music Raised Millions on Kickstarter

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa2rpJtUItE?rel=0&w=640&h=360] Neil Young is a rock legend, known in the past for his musical talents. However, in the present time, he has been focusing...

How Potato Salad Proved The Power of Crowdfunding

This story has fired across the internet like a warning shot across the bow of a ship. One person, with an idea to create...

How the Crowd Drives Innovation

Innovation is the key to evolution, not the biological evolution of the human race but the scientific, technological, social and economic evolution of the...

The Future of Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding has in many ways changed the entire world of business finance. Every model of crowdfunding, including equity and peer lending, has increased the...

52 Ways to Innovate Like a Startup

Every company starts at ground zero, including those that have become the largest conglomerates across the world. But not every company is...

5 Coolest Tech Kickstarter Campaigns of All-Time

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBNIz55FvQ8?rel=0&w=640&h=360] TechRadar highlights the top five Kickstarter projects that have found crowdfund success in the past and present. Many of these projects are expected...

What You Need to Know About Equity Crowdfunding Platforms

An equity crowdfunding platform could be just the thing your start-up needs to make a big splash in your niche industry. It could also...

4 Things To Consider Before Beginning an Equity Crowdfunding Campaign

It might be tempting to start a crowdfunding campaign right now to get your next business concept off of the ground. From fundraising to...

Explanation of a VC Term Sheet

Are you planning to launch a startup? Are you an aspiring entrepreneur? Have you already launched a startup and are now looking for funds?...

How to do a Kickstarter Survey

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb8r6ewHf_k?rel=0&w=640&h=360] You are taken behind the scenes of a Kickstarter campaign to experience how its survey feature works to get backers to address details...

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Crowdfunding

With nearly 200 crowdfunding platforms providing opportunities to entrepreneurs and backers alike in the United States alone, this funding option is becoming a very...

George M. Pullman Inventions and Accomplishments

George Pullman was born in the early 19th century and was primarily known as an industrialist and an engineer. His story is one of...