Author: OurCrowd

This Week In Crowdfunding: Crowdfunding Entrepreneurship

This Week In Crowdfunding: Crowdfunding Entrepreneurship

Sep 7, 2014 | , ,

This Week in Crowdfunding is a newly launched podcast series hosted by OurCrowd’s Zack Miller and David Stark, where they cover the best in Crowdfunding with a frank — and educational — discussion about the issues surrounding Crowdfunding. Every week, they interview successful entrepreneurs, deconstruct campaigns, and hear from the smartest people around on this transformative, massive financing trend. Sign up to listen to the podcast on iTunes * Sticher * SoundCloud!  ——————————————— As crowdfunding gathers more momentum, crowdfunding activities are becoming more mainstream. This week’s guest on the program, Hillel Fuld, is a technology evangelist and the Chief Marketing Officer of Zula. On the podcast, hosts David Stark and Zack Miller talk to Hillel about his experiences meeting with thousands of technology teams and what qualities and behaviors can make a crowdfunding project successful vs. a failure. Starkup Nation and Zack Attack discuss recently delivered crowdfunded products and the record-breaking Coolest Cooler campaign (I want one!) which just topped $13 million on Kickstarter. Lastly, Stark and Miller share the good news that a company they crowdfunded is readying an IPO — a first for the crowdfunding industry. Listen to the FULL episode Resources mentioned in the podcast...

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#WhatsYourBigIdea Podcast: Hunt Down Great Ideas & Make Them Yours

#WhatsYourBigIdea Podcast: Hunt Down Great Ideas & Make Them Yours

Sep 4, 2014 | , , ,

Great business ideas do not spring from innate creativity, or necessarily from the brilliant minds of people. Rather, great ideas come to those who are in the habit of looking for great ideas — all around them, all the time. Join Andy Boynton, Dean of the Boston College School of Management and author of The Idea Hunter: How to Find The Best Ideas and Make Them Happen, and OurCrowd’s Zack Miller as they discuss the process great investors like Warren Buffett use to generate new ideas and make money from them, how to create an idea portfolio, what makes up a good idea vs. a bad one, and more. This is part of an ongoing exploration we’ve had with our investor community at OurCrowd about ideas and creativity. To learn more about big ideas, check out IsraelIdeas.com   Zack Miller is the Head of Investor Community at OurCrowd. Zack has been growing investment businesses for the past decade, holding senior leadership positions and consulting some of the top next-generation finance sites. To contact Zack Miller, follow him on Linkedin / Twitter Andy Boynton is dean of...

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OurCrowd Events September-October

OurCrowd Events September-October

Sep 4, 2014 |

OurCrowd founder & CEO Jon Medved and team members will be hosting events in the US and Israel in the upcoming weeks, with the CEOs of our new startups and guest speakers. Scroll down to learn more and RSVP, we hope to see you at one of our events. Be sure to RSVP on the links below. Space is limited!   October 23rd – Panama City, Panama  What: Breakfast organised by Panama-Israel Chamber of Commerce- Crowdfunding: Revolutionizing Startup Investing Featuring: Eduardo Shoval, Venture Partner at OurCrowd, and Moises Benchimol, Investor Relations Manager for Latin America When: 8:00AM-10:00AM For more information and to RSVP contact Moises at moises@ourcrowd.com   October 23-25th – Las Vegas, Nevada What: 3rd Global Crowdfunding Bootcamp – join hundreds of business owners, investors, entrepreneurs, startups, government officials, non-profits, veterans, and crowdfunding industry leaders for this three-day event in Las Vegas. Featuring: Audrey Jacobs, VP OurCrowd Americas, discussing the Start Up Nation and investment opportunities. To purchase tickets, please click here.   October 24th – New York, NY What: Private Lunch with Jon Medved and ClipFort Featuring: Jon Medved, CEO &  Founder, OurCrowd When: 12:30PM-2:00PM To RSVP, please email Scott Dubin at scott@ourcrowd.com  ...

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[Crosswise in Geektime] Crosswise: Identifying the users in the crowd [Geektime Conference]

Sep 3, 2014 |

Most users today have multiple devices for surfing the web, chatting with friends, and of course, catching up on various social networks. While this is a good thing for the users, who can now update statuses from the bed – for advertisers it’s a significant problem, since they lose the identity of the users during their transition, and thus, can’t offer the best ads for them. The Israeli startup Crosswise is interested in helping media companies to identify the users even when they’re moving between a variety of devices, thus improving their advertising capabilities. Read more in...

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OurCrowd’s portfolio company Curiyo receives PCMag Editor’s Choice Award

Sep 1, 2014 | ,

OurCrowd portfolio company, Curiyo, has been awarded PC Magazine’s highest editorial honor, the Editors’ Choice award. Curiyo is a browser plugin that helps deliver relevant content to users curious to know more about a word or phrase on a site, without forcing users to leave the page they are on. The PCMag Editors’ Choice is awarded to products and services that rise above similar products in leading technology categories. In the review, PC Magazine editor Samara Lynn describes Curiyo’s technology as very impressive and gives it a score of 4 out of 5 stars. There is a lot of content to sift through on the Internet. When you want to give your readers of your site more information about a particular word or phrase, it typically involves adding hyperlinks into your site. This means redirecting readers to yet another part of the Internet, when you want them to stay on your site. Curiyo does this work for you and gives your audience extra information they want at a click, without having to leave your site. It’s impressive technology although the long-press feature seems to work a little inconsistently. Curiyo is...

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