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The Crowd Economy Goes Off The Scale, Lighting Fires Across The World

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Devin D. Thorpe
Nov 19, 2014
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London and Miami – As Luke Johnson noted yesterday in the FT the hype is over, for once overtaken by the reality. Today the crowd economy moves into the limelight in the US Mid-terms as TheCrowdDataCenter.com team up with JOBS act founders CCA (Crowdfund Capital Advisors) harnessing big-data science to create the means to measure crowdfunded activity and job creation, at national and, crucially, local level in a new way.

The JOBSIMPACT score rates the impact on a city, state or country aiming to reveals how entrepreneur-friendly the local ecosystem is, providing comparisons and key insights, according to the report.

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“The JOBSIMPACT score indicates the effect on the local economy by assessing the impact on venture and job creation” said Barry James, Founder and CEO of TheCrowdDataCenter.com “It’s proved extrordinarily revealing. We can see straight away that there are one or two truly stellar areas, such as Washington DC and San Francisco, where this new entrepreneurial ecosystem has tak…

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