About Us | Peerbackers Strength in Numbers peerbackers is a new way to fund entrepreneurs. It is an online funding platform that allows business owners to raise capital from their “peers”—in small increments—in exchange for tangible rewards to those who contribute. We’re the connectors— our online marketplace directly links business people who are looking for a small amount of start-up or growth capital with individuals who are willing to contribute that funding in small increments. Who are the folks behind the venture? peerbackers is led by two founders – Sally Outlaw and Andrew Rachmell. Sally serves as President of peerbackers and is a seasoned entrepreneur having run her own businesses for the last twenty years. Andrew comes with an exemplary track record in marketing & corporate sponsorships and serves as VP of Business Development. After years of being entrepreneurs, Sally & Andrew decided their biggest passion is actually helping others with their start-ups.
Levée de fonds | Financement Amorçage | Création Entreprise | Cap Angel Funding Circle, a Kickstarter for SMBs, Picks Up $16M From Index, Union Square Ventures Some great news for small business owners, and perhaps a sign of more crowdsourced funding coming to the U.S.: the UK-based Funding Circle — a kind of Kickstarter for lending to smaller enterprises — has just announced that it has raised a $16 million round to further build up its business of enabling non-bank lending to small enterprises. The investment included participation from existing investor Index Ventures as well as new investor Union Square Ventures — a sign of how Funding Circle may have its sights set on taking advantage of new crowdfunding laws and expanding to the U.S. This Series B round takes the total raised by Funding Circle to $21 million. Funding Circle has made some impressive strides since launching in the UK 18 months ago: it’s facilitated lending to 670 small businesses in the UK, with funds totaling £28 million ($45 million), representing annual growth of over 400 percent.
Peerbackers | crowdfunding big ideas Sélection With JOBS Act Becoming Law, Crowdfunding Platforms Look To Create Self-Regulatory Body Today, President Obama signs the JOBS Act into law, legalizing crowdfunding in startups by non-accredited investors, so that anyone and their mother can invest. The new law stipulates that entrepreneurs can now raise money from any and all, however, startups are limited to $1 million per year, and must stick to portals approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. What’s more, the legislation dispenses with the 500-shareholder rule, which put a limit on the number of shareholders a company was allowed before registering with the SEC (and going public). The new law gives high-growth companies a longer grace period, or on-ramp, leading up to IPOs, and lifts some of the one-size-fits all regulation that likely has been hampering the IPO market. While this is a big win for startups, it puts significant pressure on the crowdfunding market to self-regulate — which is risky. The group aims to create principles to: What do you think? More on CAPS here.
Misez sur les plus grands films bientôt à l'affiche - PeopleForCinema Kisskissbankbank : collectez des fonds pour réaliser vos projets Change.org Hits 10 Million Members, Now The “Fastest-Growing Social Action Platform On The Web” Change.org launched in 2007 as a social networking site for non-profits. Today, the site looks quite a bit different and has morphed into a petition platform that wants to empower activists around the world through what it calls “people-powered campaigns.” While the site only grew rather slowly in its early years, it’s on a tear now. According to Change.org’s own data, the site just passed 10 million users and is now growing by 2 million members per month. That’s quite a difference from last October, when the site was only growing by about 300,000 members per month. After a few pivots (it was once a blog network, too), the site now almost exclusively focuses on petitions. While most of the campaigns on the site are initiated by individuals and small non-profits and are available for free, the site makes its revenue through running sponsored campaigns for large organizations like Amnesty International, the Sierra Club, and Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong foundation.
Crowdfunding New Crowdsourcing Launch: AskYourUsers.com Uses LinkedIn To Help You Find People For Microconsulting Projects Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding have been two of the biggest trends to effect how businesses — especially small businesses and sole traders — raise money, with sites like Kickstarter.com and in the UK Funding Circle attracting a attention for being a great way of getting backing for projects or business ideas bypassing the traditional and expensive world of bank loans in the process. Now a site is launching that gives this model an additional twist: AskYourUsers.com is a simple service that helps you find people for microconsulting projects lasting no more than 15 minutes — and it uses your LinkedIn network to help you find them. From the demo that I have seen, the service is basically that simple, but it works very smoothly, and definitely solves a need — one that Amelia Dunne and her co-founder, Chris Bumgardner, essentially stumbled on unintentionally: Then AskYourUsers does the rest. Dunne says that she believes this might be the first to use LinkedIn to help find people. Oh and P.S.
Online Fundraising Website and Software for Events and Causes How Memoto raised $500,000 on Kickstarter, part 1. | Memoto Blog Still being in something of a shock over the overwhelming response Memoto’s Kickstarter project has had, we feel we need, for reasons of self-therapy if nothing else, to put down in words what has really happened these past few weeks since we launched. We will do this in two parts, one where we describe the process leading up to the launch of the project and one where we disclose some lessons learned during the actual project. So, what’s Kickstarter? Memoto’s Kickstarter project was launched on October 23rd, with the goal of reaching $50,000 before November 30. Per Brickstad of design agency PeoplePeople showing early drawings of the Memoto camera. Beginning in March 2012, the Memoto team began to expand from only three original founders to a team of a dozen in June. Early version of the Memoto blog. We wouldn’t have much to show for the outside world in terms of prototypes for another 6 months. Vision video Remember every moment, produced by HouseofRadon for Memoto in April 2012.