Crowdfunding
New Zealand crowdfunding platform celebrates $70 million
New Zealand crowdfunding platform PledgeMe is celebrating a milestone, having just crossed the 70 million dollar-through-their-platform mark. It was reached thanks to a little help from an ethical… Audio
How crowdfunding campaigns succeed or fail
There's been a proliferation of crowdfunding iniatives particularly seeking donations to pay medical treatment ,and new research provides information about how the key to success can involve how… Audio
Crowd funding commercial property development, Collett's Corner
An ambitious crowd funded commercial property development is nearing one of its targets.Shareholder appointed director, Raf Manji Collett's talks to Jesse about the project and how the crowdfunding… Audio
Regulator report at odds with crowdfunding growth
Equity crowdfunding services are still going from strength to strength, despite some data indicating the sector is slowing down. Audio
Happy Cow's Glen Herud won't give up on his dairying dream
Glen Herud is a dairy farmer from Rangiora and founder of the Happy Cow Milk Company which he set up in 2012, to create a more ethical and sustainable dairy model. But in April it went into… Audio
Chocolate crowdfunding campaign hits $1 million in one day
In August, Jim O'Malley, the man behind the 'Own the Factory' initiative, unveiled a new concept focusing on premium chocolate-making, by joining forces with an existing Dunedin artisan chocolate… Audio
Games fans fund their own fun
The crowdfunding website Kickstarter's become an important way for 'tabletop games' designers to connect with fans and raise the cash needed to produce their games. Audio
Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles
Kathryn Ryan talks to scientist Dr Siouxsie Wiles about science funding and crowdfunding, how climate change could disturb your sleep, and intriguing new research that suggests our brains may be able… Audio
Alan Jansson - A tribute to Graham Brazier
Alan Jansson - producer, songwriter, engineer, label owner, and musician, and the owner of Uptown Studios, in Auckland's Freeman's Bay - was someone local rock legend Graham Brazier had wanted to work… Audio
Persuading people to pay more for news
The advertising that has covered the cost of journalism in the past is drifting away from the news media. Readers who value it are being asked to pay more to secure its future. Mediawatch asks two… Video, Audio
Persuading people to pay more for news
The advertising that has covered the cost of journalism in the past is drifting away from the news media. Readers who value it are being asked to pay more to secure its future. Mediawatch asks two…
Video, AudioSimone Hunter - Crowdfunding
Crowd-funding sites are fast becoming the way that people with a project fundraise. The arts crowdfunding platform Boosted reached a milestone recently raising over 3 million dollars - Wallace speaks… Audio
Star Citizen: crowdfunding's biggest success story
Imagine a computer game where you can explore entire solar systems, walk on the surface of alien worlds, fly spaceships, mine asteroids, explore wormholes all with the kind of graphical fidelity you'd… Audio
AngelEquity targets only wholesale investors for start-up funds
Another equity crowdfunding platform has been launched; this time targeting only wholesale investors with the bankroll and experience to take the risk. Audio
Give a little to Givealittle: Crowdfunding charity to start charging fundraisers
Popular crowdfunding website Givealittle is about to start charging fundraisers a flat fee of 5 per cent of the total funds they raise.
Tech: chatbots, PledgeMe, and Spark's Lightbox offer
Technology correspondent Peter Griffin on the rise of the 'chatbots'; also the local crowdfunding platform PledgeMe moves into peer-to-peer lending. And in the latest development in the complex and… Audio
Buy-a-beach campaigner confirms purchase
The sale of an Awaroa beach to the public is now confirmed, with few pledges defaulting, according to the campaign's creator.
The rise and rise of crowdfunding
Fundraising websites have become a strange mix of tragic tales and frivolous fancies. Natasha Frost asks how crowdfunding for travel became standard.
Anna Guenther
CEO and co-founder of equity crowdfunding platform PledgeMe, which has just celebrated its third birthday. Audio
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The hopes of ten New Zealand documentary makers hinge on the kindness of strangers. They're all in the running to get four thousand dollars worth of help to make their short docos. But first, they… Audio
