Sony ouvre sa plateforme de financement participatif. Sony vient de lancer sa propre plateforme de financement participatif («crowdfunding»), baptisée First Flight, d'après le site d'information The Verge.
Celle-ci est destinée à promouvoir les projets développés par des salariés de la firme japonaise: les internautes pourront y faire des promesses de financement et des précommandes. Le grand public pourra ainsi, directement, y précommander et acheter les nouveaux appareils développés par ce biais. Comme sur Kick Starter, chaque projet a sa propre page de présentation, vidéos à l'appui, et le montant que ses fondateurs comptent lever en ligne. Deux premiers projets y sont présentés: le Mesh Smart DIY kit et la montre connectée FES E-ink. William Skelley: iFunding Charts Path for Growth in Real Estate Crowdfunding. Followers of the investment crowdfunding space all know the real estate sector is very hot.
Big names and big deals are migrating to the new approach to fund all types of property. iFunding is one of these companies that claims a top pedigree of founders and managers with a view towards global expansion. The young company, led by CEO and founder William Skelley, has recognized the potential and is quickly capitalizing on the opportunity of this disruptive shift in finance. iFunding is expanding opportunities for individuals to invest in institutional-quality real estate deals, through their platform. Bienvenue dans l'ère du Client-Directeur Général.
Crowdfunding expands access to capital for women, minority entrepreneurs. Crowdfunding requires an entrepreneur to mine his or her social networks and use online marketing to collect small sums of money from a large pool of individual investors.
There are no credit barriers to clear or wealthy contacts to tap. Such requirements have presented a challenge for some women and minority entrepreneurs seeking bank loans or venture capital, over and above the ordinary challenges for any start-up trying to raise money. Alicia Robb, a senior research fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, said women and minorities are often excluded, intentionally or otherwise, from the networks of venture capitalists and high-net-worth individuals that are comprised largely of white men.
What’s more, there’s evidence that minorities face discrimination when applying for bank loans, Robb said. This combination of factors makes women and minorities less likely to pursue financing than their male, non-minority counterparts. Mosaic Prepares To Launch Another $100M Of Projects On Its Solar Crowdfunding Platform. Mosaic, a startup allowing people to invest in solar projects, announced today that it has received regulatory approval for its next wave of crowdfunding efforts in California, worth a total of $100 million in investment.
The site opened to the public back in January with three projects that were fully backed in fewer than 24 hours. In total, the company says that it has raised $1.1 million from more than 1,000 investors to fund 12 rooftop solar power plants. Co-founder and President Billy Parish added that after Mosaic made the announcement this morning, it launched a project that needed $157,000 in funding, and it raised the amount in six hours. Mosaic investors choose the projects that they want to back, and they can invest as little as $25. Once those projects start earning revenue, the investors are paid back with interest. Fleur Pellerin ajoute le crowdfunding à sa feuille de route pour 2013. Lors du Forum international de la cybersécurité, la ministre a également annoncé le lancement du projet Idénum pour créer une solution d'identité numérique universelle.
Après avoir refondu le Conseil national du numérique (CNNum) et annoncé vouloir créer un grand quartier numérique à Paris, la ministre déléguée en charge des PME et de l'économie numérique Fleur Pellerin a précisé, au cours des derniers jours, sa feuille de route pour 2013. Crashlytics Blog. In the 2+ years since we launched Crashlytics to solve mobile crash reporting, we’ve heard you loud and clear about another problem in mobile development: the beta distribution process.
Testing new apps with real beta testers can be a cumbersome and unnecessarily complex process. At Crashlytics, our mission is to deliver the easiest and most powerful tools for mobile developers. Through Crashlytics Labs, we’re always pushing the boundaries and tinkering with new ideas. I’m excited to share that we’ve been hard at work in our Labs building a beta distribution tool for both iOS and Android. By focusing on multi-platform support, our beta distribution tool streamlines the process and shreds the complexity of managing different toolsets.
If you want to apply to test our new tool for beta distribution and other secret projects we’re working on, sign up to become a Crashlytics Lab Rat. Cheers, View More 2013 was a year filled with excitement, innovation and disruption. Nouvelle Tendance Social Media 2013 : le Social Gifting. Le Social Gifting est une nouvelle tendance qui associe les achats de produits aux médias sociaux et qui se développe actuellement auprès des consommateurs.
Le Social Gifting, comment ça marche ? Un particulier créé une liste de cadeaux sur un site e-commerce et la partage auprès de ses amis via les médias sociaux qu’il utilise (Pinterest, Facebook etc …). Innovationendeavors.com. The Crowdfunding Gold Rush for 2013. Commentary By David Drake While 2012 was an amazing year for crowdfunding, 2013 should outdo it.
Here are my half dozen predictions for the year – and why this new form of capital formation will continue to soar. The Crowdfunding Gold Rush of 2013? Photo (c) Crestock. 1. Crowdfunding was exploding quietly in 2012 for the non-believers and loudly for the embracers between March 8, 2012 and President’s Obama signing of the JOBS Act into law on April 5, 2012. The global predictions in 2013 for the debt crowdfunding industry are strong. 2.