{"id":1354,"date":"2013-09-30T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T09:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clearbooksplc.com\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2014-01-13T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:51:44","slug":"cloud-funding-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clearbooks.co.uk\/blog\/cloud-funding-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Funding &#8211; week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a fantastic first week which saw Cloud Funding\u00a0raise over \u00a3160,000 from 100 new and existing shareholders. 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