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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

The April 2012 report estimates that 452 crowdfunding platforms (CFPs) raised nearly $1.5 billion in 2012. banks lent (without real estate as collateral) to small businesses in 2011, according to the FDIC. Consider the data just released in this week's " Crowdfunding Industry Report" from www.crowdsourcing.org.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

’ What they’re really selling: Residential real estate. My analysis: Price and location are the deciding factors in real estate. Nothing – not even reputable films – should be judged only by fickle box office ratings. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. All rights reserved.

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The Booming Business of Drones

Harvard Business Review

It is estimated that they currently have about seven thousand of them (and Congress asked for about $5 billion worth of more drones in 2012). reauthorization law, envisions a $5 billion-plus industry of camera drones being used for all sorts of purposes from real estate advertising to crop dusting to environmental monitoring and police work."