Tag: crowdfunding

The rise of pre-commerce and the sharing economy

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The Rise of Pre-Commerce
BY LISA GANSKY, fastcoexist.com

The sharing economy and crowdfunding have fundamentally altered the way we develop products.

Busi­ness is social. At its core is a seem­ing­ly end­less series of social interactions—not just inter­nal rela­tion­ships, but exter­nal ones as well…

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Shopify: finally ECommerce you can do from your couch

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Shopify Simplifies E-Commerce to Boost Crowdfunding Graduates
Tim Maly, wired.com

Say you finished your Kickstarter campaign for some product or other, and after the inevitable growing pains, you’ve gotten all the rewards out to your backers who are gleefully emailing you to say what a great thing it is that …

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The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills

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The Sick Turn To Crowd Funding To Pay Medical Bills
Eliza Barclay, npr.org

Sure­ly you’ve heard of crowd fund­ing sites like Kick­starter that have helped thou­sands of film­mak­ers, musi­cians and painters lever­age Face­book and Twit­ter to raise money for cre­ative projects.

But crowd fund­ing isn’t just for hip­ste…

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