Supported by the philanthropist George Soros's Open Society Institute in Budapest, by a $300,000 grant from the United States Information Agency and by private donors, the college offers an interesting fund-raising model in cash-short Russia; it also makes professors more marketable by forcing them to adapt.
Community shares for media publications is an interesting funding model.
If you're among his fans, and want to get in on his way of seeing the emerging economy of the web, you might want to check out a new fund that will soon appear at one of Canada's more interesting fund managers: Altamira.
The code is open-source and has an interesting contributor funding model, too; every merged pull request is rewarded with some of the Bitcoin donated to the project as a whole.
Gina Gotthilf, Duolingo's VP of Growth and Marketing, told me that the company received a number of interesting funding offers but decided to work with Drive because the firm shared Duolingo's belief in its mission (and because it made a good offer).
One of the techniques we recommend for individuals is to maintain an "interesting-person fund" to take people in their networks out to coffee.
It's not often that you hear many details about the limited partners that feed money into a venture capital fund, and even less so when it's about Western money being channelled into Chinese VCs, but today comes news of how one of the more interesting funds out of China is shaping up, courtesy of a strategic European investor.
Equity crowdfunding is, in short, one of the newest and most interesting funding systems in the world.
The company is also bringing with it an interesting source of funding, with musician Justin Timberlake as its lead investor (Timberlake isn't new to Silicon Valley – his past investments include Tapulous).
If venture capitalists think entrepreneurs have identified a big problem with an interesting solution, they'll fund the start-up.
According to the fund's website, "many high-growth companies staying private longer than ever," and "a significant portion of their value appreciation typically occurs before their entry into the public markets," making the SharesPost 100 Fund an interesting option.
