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A Look at Crowdfunding With Indiegogo CEO Becky Center

The Motley Fool

Becky Center is the CEO of Indiegogo, an online crowdfunding platform that's helped over 800,000 entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. How the laboratory-like nature of crowdfunding can help predict "the next big thing" before it goes mainstream. It's been around since 2008, which is incredible.

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Big Tech Goes Nuclear

The Motley Fool

Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $44,456 !* One other area where where private investors could explore retail investors could explore is crowdfunding platforms Republic or Start engine, MicroVentures. Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $411,959 !*

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Real Estate Trends 2023

The Motley Fool

This is not a 2008 style crisis where what we saw then was the collapse of the housing market and all these loans that went bad caused just tremendous ripple effects across the economy and financial markets.

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