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1. Lifestyle - Technology - BUSINESS CROWDFUNDING

   With Hong Kong's FringeBacker, achieving big dreams just a click away

   Posted May 07th 2013, 12:00am by Kylie Knott

   ... in the United States. Before he goes, he wants to hold an exhibition of his work - and he's hoping Hong Kong-based crowdfunding website FringeBacker will make it possible. "I'm ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1231508/hong-kongs-fringebacker-achieving-big-dreams-just-click-away
2. News - Hong Kong - FUNDRAISING

   Crowdfunding gives city's worthy causes a chance

   Posted Feb 03rd 2013, 12:00am by Christy Choi

   ... entrepreneurs and creative types have a new way of getting funding for their projects. The recently launched website FringeBacker has brought the growing trend of crowdfunding, where individuals decide ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1142192/crowdfunding-gives-citys-worthy-causes-chance
3. Lifestyle - ENTERTAINMENT

   Filmmakers told to follow the crowd in financing bid

   Posted Mar 18th 2013, 12:00am by Vivienne Chow

   ... at the Convention and Exhibition Centre. Garcia said the society had set up a partnership between HAF and Indian crowdfunding site Catapooolt. "Micro movies are a big trend. HAF should probably look ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/1193137/filmmakers-told-follow-crowd-financing-bid
4. Business - Companies

   Canadians create ’most energy-efficient’ bulb

   Posted Feb 07th 2013, 10:00am by AFP

   ... year to market the product after working on it for three years. The idea has raised more than US$100,000 on a US crowdfunding website and generated pre-orders for more than 3,000 bulbs ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1145122/canadians-create-most-energy-efficient-bulb
5. Smart money

   Posted Apr 23rd 2012, 12:00am

   ... Peter Guy moneypost@scmp.com Best sites for 'crowdfunding', by which the public is asked to donate or invest small sums to promising projects. kickstarter.com Crowdfunding is venture capital for the masses. Whatever the size of your restaurant, art project or musical, these sites match artistic and creative ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/998971/smart-money
6. Business - Money - WEALTH

   Crowdfunding and the media

   Posted Oct 29th 2012, 12:00am by GDN

   ... look at the film's potential". As with most crowdfunding, there are rewards. Pledge US$25 and you'll get digital downloads of the comic, plus access to the production blog. Cough ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/money/money-news/article/1070461/crowdfunding-and-media
7. Business - Banking & Finance

   Crowd-funding dark side: Sometimes investments go down drain

   Posted Aug 15th 2012, 01:23pm by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

   ... crowd-funding efforts support art projects or humanitarian causes. Consumers may also help business projects by contributing money in exchange for T-shirts or by prepaying for products before they're released. More than $290 million has been pledged for more than 26,000 funded projects on Kickstarter, the largest U.S.-based crowd-funding site. But crowd funding will soon reach a much ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/money/markets-investing/article/1015375/crowd-funding-dark-side-sometimes-investments-go
8. Lifestyle - Fashion & Watches - BUSINESS CROWDFUNDING

   Business: Electronic retail

   Posted Oct 05th 2012, 12:00am by Divia Harilela

   ... sister, who is a design student. She was talking about how hard it is to get support as a young designer. I had funded a project on [crowdfunding platform] Kickstarter a year ago and we thought ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-watches/article/1053854/business-electronic-retail
9. Lifestyle - Arts & Culture - MUSIC

   It all adds up for math rockers 65daysofstatic

   Posted Jan 06th 2013, 12:00am by Charlie Carter

   ... Film Festival, which wanted an alternative backing theme to the 1972 ecological drama and was paid for with the proceeds of an online crowd-funding effort, which had sought US$7,500 ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1119875/it-all-adds-math-rockers-65daysofstatic
10. Magazines - Post Magazine

    Net prophets

    Posted Nov 04th 2012, 12:00am

    ... and tech support at a bank,” says Vicky Wu, 25, co-founder of ZaoZao, a crowd-funding site for fashion designers that launched in late September. Crowd-funding allows inventors to raise the capital ...

    http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1073984/net-prophets

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