Sentences with phrase «first crowd funding»

Who would have thought — one of the first crowd funding campaigns ever recorded wasn't even to start a new business.

«Liquid Story used its technology and strategic insight to guide Jamstack to connect with our target consumer to our first Crowd Funding Campaign on Kickstarter resulting in achieving over 300 % of our fund raising goal.

Not exact matches

Crowd funding wasn't started as business revolution, but to just solve a problem Danae saw first - hand.

Although we'll be the first to admit that falling large hedge funds can get crowded, we have found immense value in following the underrated hedge funds that have had success in finding small - cap stocks that outperform.

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First, no matter what anybody tells you (people don't want to believe that we're influenced by the crowd), social proof is hugely important in fund raising.

For the first time, entrepreneurs will be able to Crowd Fund — that is raise equity by selling shares of their businesses through dedicated internet portals.

New Union provides business financing for small - medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore, China, Taiwan, Cambodia and the Philippines, making it one of the first and largest debt - based crowd - funding platforms in Singapore.

This crowd funding compaign is the first step to introduce this new heart valve technology, and begin the process necessary to receive FDA approval.

First the angels and the crowd funders put in some money.

I am also the former chef and co-owner of the Lostine Tavern, the first farm - to - table restaurant in eastern Oregon, writing the business plan and spearheading a $ 30,000 crowd - funding campaign.

From September — October 2013, AFSA worked with the Field Institute to crowd - fund $ 32,675 to make Australia's first feature - length food politics documentary, «Fair Food».

A story in The New York Times explained that when New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wanted entrée to the hedge - fund crowd for his political fundraising, he had first to meet with Joe Williams, the executive director of Democrats for Education Reform.

It is an unusually crowded and well - funded field of candidates that has lined up to compete against Faso in what will be his first re-election race.

Remarks by City Comptroller Scott Stringer — who while Manhattan borough president provided the project with its first $ 1 million in funding, enhancing its credibility — drew the most enthusiastic reaction from the crowd.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, «The Crowd & The Cloud» is the first public TV series to focus on citizen science and crowdsourcing.

(Her first reaction, she says, was: «I thought that [crowd - funding] was for music.»)

What you first need for successful crowd - funding is a clearly defined project, says ornithologist Thomas Hart of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Each month (or so), an OpenSciLogs story project, lead by a selected SciLogs.com blogger, will be introduced here and on the crowd - funding site Indiegogo (the first OpenSciLogs Indiegogo page to come soon).

Jaipur, India About Blog DreamWallets (DW) is a first of its kind online collaboration platform that focuses on the concept of Crowd Funding - an age old concept of raising funds from large number of supporters who feel for a cause or an idea and Crowd Sourcing — people coming and working together to help turn dreams into reality.

Actor and filmmaker Griffin Dunne has launched a crowd - sourcing campaign in a bid to raise the funds he needs to complete work on the «first and...

The case study below of Liss Primary School is a delightful example where pupils and parents fundraised to crowd - fund not only their own solar school, but a partner school in Uganda so it could benefit from electricity for the first time.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Since Oyster announced its first round of funding in late 2012, along with plans to launch an e-book subscription business, the space has become significantly more crowded.

I am currently crowd funding to put out the rest of the Seven Halos series, which is the series that my first novel, Silver Smoke, comes from.

Gardena, CA (June 3, 2014) Digital Manga, Inc. has launched a new project on crowd - funding site Kickstarter to translate and publish Osamu Tezuka's shonen title Captain Ken volumes 1 and 2 for ages 16 + in English for the first time.

If you missed the first video in author Catherine Brunelle's awesome, informative, and fun Crowd Funding for Authors training series, click here to watch it now.

Gardena, CA (June 21st, 2012)-- Today Digital Manga, Inc. launched a project on crowd - funding site Kickstarter to translate and publish Unico, the children's comic by Osamu Tezuka, in English for the first time.

While our active role at JOE is a first for Fairholme and unusual for mutual funds, our past clearly shows that we ignore what the crowd believes proper and decide for ourselves what is in the best interest of shareholders.

Adding salt to the wound was the fact that Project Cars 2 will be funded using Slightly Mad's crowd - funding platforming when many felt that with the success of the first game it wasn't needed.

However, Nine Dots Studio's first Kickstarter campaign failed to reach its target over the summer, and they've now returned to the crowd - funding arena with a beefy free prototype and new features.

If you pay attention to the world of games at all, Double Fine's Broken Age will be a familiar name — the modern take on the point and click adventure genre was funded through Kickstarter a few years back — at the time, one of Kickstarter's first massive successes, and one that served as a gateway for many into the crowd - funding service itself.

Yu Suzuki, the venerable games designer who directed the first two Shenmue games, has discussed some of his ideas for the crowd - funded sequel currently in development for PlayStation 4 and PC.

Republique taking iOS gaming to the next level and being the first time Apple has allowed pre-ordering of an iOS game to enable crowd - sourced funding might be angles that interest them?

«While the Star Citizen case is a first to take crowd funding to this new level, it does show the potential of this fundraising method when pursued properly.

Graywalkers: Purgatory first made news when it received about $ 50,000 USD in funding through the crowd - funding site Kickstarter.com.

So yes we explored other avenues briefly first, but a crowd - funded, crowd - powered platform for making AAA games was always in our minds because ultimately we're not alone in this situation and it can hopefully benefit other developers in the future.

The first part of Double Fine's crowd - funded game Broken Age gave us a new tale in the style of classic point and click adventure games.

Skullgirls released on PC back in August; since its release, PC players have received several balance updates, special effects updates, engine patches, and Squigly - the first of five crowd - funded DLC characters.

To our knowledge, these are the first retail available t - shirts based off an indie Dreamcast title that are not exclusive to a Kickstarter or crowd funding campaign,» read The Bit Station's press release.

I backed Strike Suit Zero's Kickstarter campaign, and this is the first time I've reviewed a title that I also personally helped to crowd - fund.

The first gameplay reveal for the title makes me a little more than interested in the ideas and direction this title will go, and it seems like most of this crowd - sourced funding will go towards the star voice actors jumping aboard.

Star Citizen, Chris Roberts» crowd - funded space game, will add first - person combat if a newly announced $ 20 million stretch goal is attained.

I'm proud to announce that the Star Citizen community has brought us to $ 21 million in crowd funding just shy of our first anniversary!

Commenting on her campaign, Daniella said: «Drawing is so important to my lifestyle and practice and I have set up my first crowd - funding campaign to raise money to support my first residency in France.

The Dark Snow Project, the first - ever Greenland expedition relying on crowd - source funding, hopes to raise $ 150,000 to mount a field research campaign to find out.

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What sets this drone operation apart from previous conservation programs though is that Ol Pejeta raised the money for its first drone through crowd - funding with a campaign on Indiegogo.com.

Last week, the Kenyan conservancy successfully concluded its campaign to raise $ 35,000 via crowd - funding website Indiegogo to help it buy its first drone from U.S. company Unmanned Innovation Inc..