SXSW 2012: ‘Social Media Sharecropping’ Encourages African Americans to...
Blogging While Brown founder Gina McCauley discusses brand awareness and digital content monetization at her panel “Social Media Sharecropping: Black Tech Adoption” at SXSW 2012 (Image: Winston Ford)...
View ArticleThe JOBS Act: Acceptance of Crowdfunding Provision Likely to Increase Startup...
(Image: Thinkstock) While small businesses have long been the engine that drives the U.S. economy, their efforts to raise capital, as well as access to it, can either help or hinder their growth....
View Article‘Notorious’ Actress Raises $50,000 from Fans for Music Career
Actress Antonique Smith jumpstarts her singing career with funding from her Kickstarter campaign (Image: Source) Actress Antonique Smith who is best known for her role as Faith Evans in Notorious beat...
View Article8 Kickstarter Alternatives to Crowdfund Your Startup
‘Crowdfunding’ can harness the power of the world wide web to get seed money for your business or project. Since launching in 2009 the Kickstarter platform has raised $368 million for projects. 80,000...
View ArticleDid a Kickstarter Project Bankrupt an Entrepreneur?
When some projects on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter fail, their creators face nothing more than angry emails from backers until they either deliver an update on the product’s status, or the product...
View Article‘Boondocks’ Creator Launches Kickstarter Campaign
Aaron McGruder, creator of the Adult Swim cartoon TV series the “Boondocks,” has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a feature film based on one of the television show’s most...
View ArticleActor Shemar Moore Launches Kickstarter Campaign for New Film Project
“Criminal Minds” actor Shemar Moore is using Kickstarter to enlist financial support for his new film project, “The Bounce Back”. The goal is to raise $1.5 million of the film’s $3 million budget...
View ArticleWith ‘Keisha Cane’ Book Series, a Young Author Champions Child Literacy
When Ashley Foxx was teaching her kindergarten and first graders at Memphis College Prep Elementary School in 2010, she knew that for all of their excitement about learning to read, they were at the...
View ArticleKickstarter Reaches $1 Billion in Pledges
Kickstarter's users have pledged over $1 billion to various projects, including the Veronica Mars movie. Since its launch, Kickstarter’s 5.7 million-strong donor base have pledged over $1 billion to...
View ArticleHow Crowdfunding Is Saving This Homeless Mother
When you say crowdfunding, you usually think of something like Kickstarter or Indiegogo, where creators from around the world come to get projects funded by the community. But sometimes the community...
View ArticleHow to Effectively Fund A Project on Kickstarter
(Image: ThinkStock) While other twenty-somethings are spending their earnings on the latest fashion trends, Evita Robinson spends every dime on traveling the world. After graduating college in 2006,...
View ArticleCongress to Help Business Owners Raise Capital with Crowdfunding
When cellist-singer-songwriter Shana Tucker needed help raising money to release her new debut album, SHiNE, she turned to her fans and to crowdfunding site indiegogo.com. She asked fans to...
View ArticleSXSW 2012: ‘Social Media Sharecropping’ Encourages African Americans to...
Blogging While Brown founder Gina McCauley discusses brand awareness and digital content monetization at her panel “Social Media Sharecropping: Black Tech Adoption” at SXSW 2012 (Image: Winston Ford)...
View ArticleHow To Ask For Money To Fund Your Business
Elixher Founder & Editor Kimberly McLeod ELIXHER is a magazine and a website that is looking to change the representation of black lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LBT) women in the media....
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