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Twitter Link Roundup #60 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The great RockMelt social disintermediation – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC Technology expected in homes in 10 years – Scientists unveil moving 3D holograms – [link]. Geologists And Tech Industry Leaders Fear Mineral Trade Wars Imminent – [link].

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

In either case, corporations have to set up their investment vehicles so that the venture capital community sees them as serious players. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Now practically everyone is getting involved in Series A.

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

To envision this, visit (or revisit) Kickstarter.com, and browse through the incredible diversity of cause and passion - based projects, from charitable to design to artistic to technological, crowd funded on a donations basis on the site. Well, for starters the very unfortunate “derivatives-focus” of the U.S.