The Future of Crowdfunding Panel at Startup America LIVE SXSWi13 Startup America chairman Steve Case, Sen. Mark Warner, Crowdfund Capital Advisors’ Jason Best, SoMoLend’s Candace Klein, and IndieGoGo’s Slava Rubin talk about the benefits and legal hurdles of crowdfunding.
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On the anniversary of the JOBS Act, Woodie Neiss of Crowdfund Capital Advisors and University of Mississippi Law Professor Mercer Bullard discuss investment crowdfunding, investor protection and fraud. It is an interesting microcosm of the arguments being made from both sides of the crowdfunding debate. Watch below…
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True entrepreneurs don’t just have a business idea, execute it, and then move into a cushy corner office. They must continue to innovate and come up with new plans to disrupt a market. Investors need to start considering what they are backing — the idea or the individual. The entrepreneur worth investing in has passion… Read More
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When President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act on April 5, 2012, he called it a “game-changing” bill. The game needed changing. After the Great Recession, access to capital became a huge problem for small business, as the percentage of loans under $1 million that banks approved (the kind for which most new… Read More
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Two weeks ago I was sitting in on a web chat held by the United States State Department. The subject was crowdfunding. Jessica Jackley of popular microloan platform Kiva and Sherwood “Woodie” Neiss of the Startup Exemption and Crowdfund Capital Advisors were discussing crowdfunding in a global context. During the hour-long Q&A, Woodie referred to… Read More
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Sherwood Neiss is one of a handful of people credited with the drafting and passage of the JOBS Act, legislation that will soon legalize investment crowdfunding in the United States. He is also one of the principals of crowdfunding consulting and advisory firm Crowdfund Capital Advisors. I was recently sitting in on a State Department-sponsored… Read More
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The crowdfunding industry’s first national study on likely US equity crowdfunding investors, CrowdfundIQ Benchmark Study, was released today. Sponsored by the Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA), Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA) and EarlyIQ, the research displays unique and quantifiable information into the demographics and investment intent of likely equity crowdfund investors in the United States. Some of… Read More
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About a dozen crowdfunding and venture capital representatives and small-business advocates last Tuesday urged Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Elisse Walter to propose rules for crowdfunding. A type of financing that lets small investors buy equity or debt in startups over the Internet, crowd funding is among several provisions of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups… Read More
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As we prepare for U.S. crowdfund investing (CFI) to go live in 2013, many investors are asking a very important question: “What’s the smartest way to approach this opportunity?” INVEST WITH PEOPLE YOU TRUST A new form of investing, CFI is meant help startups and small businesses access capital needed to grow and hire. It’s… Read More
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SeedInvest co-founders Ryan Feit and James Han always knew they wanted to start a business, even as they both found themselves working in New York private equity firms. That entrepreneurial drive took them back to Wharton to pursue their MBAs. While at Wharton, Feit read about Sherwood “Woodie” Neiss and Jason Best of Startup Exemption (and… Read More
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Equity crowdfunding may eventually grow to be a $300 billion industry, as a well-known venture capitalist predicted last year, but there are high hurdles to jump, experts say. Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures suggested last May that crowdfunding eventually would take massive market share from bank lending, giving a boost to the alternative lending industry…. Read More
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Crowdfund Capital Advisors Principal Sherwood Neiss discusses crowdfunding rules and the fight against fraud. He speaks with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television’s “Money Moves.” (Source: Bloomberg)
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Crowdfund Texas featured a panel focused on forecasting crowdfunding’s success. The panel featured plenty of optimism, but was also peppered with words of warning for an industry in a holding pattern as rules and regulations move glacially toward completion. Dara Albright of the NowStreet Journal believes 2013 is the year crowdfunding will become a household… Read More
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Sherwood Neiss will be speaking at SXSW this year, which should provide some awesome exposure for the crowdfunding space as a whole. Below are details from the info page on SXSW.com… Description A global fight is currently underway to democratize access to capital for entrepreneurs. With over half of the world population engaged in self-generated… Read More
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