crowd-funding

Crowdsourcing off to good start in Malaysia, challenges remain

A. Asohan June 17, 2013

Crowdsourcing under the Digital Malaysia initiative may have got off to a good start, but challenges remain, according to the head of national ICT custodian the Multimedia Development Corp (MDeC).

Crowd-funding lessons for start-ups … and a challenge

A. Asohan March 25, 2013

Crowd-funding is not new to Asia but has yet to really take off -- start-ups here are not making effective use of the platform, and the Crowdsourcing Week organizers hope to change that.

Crowdsourcing: It’s about disruptive business models

A. Asohan March 22, 2013

Crowdsourcing has brought the sexy back to the Internet but it is not an industry in itself – it’s a practice that is enabling and disrupting industries, says Crowdsourcing Week founder and CEO Epirot Ludvik Nekaj.

Diabetes device start-up seeks crowd-funding boost

A. Asohan January 30, 2013

Geob International Sdn Bhd has launched a crowd-funding drive to bring to market the first batch of its HypoBand medical alert device for diabetes patients.

Economic growth: A four-part solution for companies and countries

Verne Harnish January 11, 2013

It’s time to source best practices from various nations to figure out how to get more from the money citizens are investing in growing their economies and companies. Here’s Verne Harnish with a prescription.

Helping startups find the right clique

Gabey Goh December 14, 2012

Patronage platform CliqueFund wants to help start-ups extend community engagement with a different kind of crowd-funding, and is fully focused on a mobile delivery strategy with a private beta launch slated for early 2013.

Can we push them over the finishing line?

Karamjit Singh August 6, 2012

Only one of the seven projects in PitchIN, Malaysia’s inaugural crowd funding attempt, has crossed the 50% funding target, with some still at 2% of the amount to be raised. That is a real shame, writes Karamjit Singh.