March 5, 2013 @ 8:53 pm By CFI Correspondent  |  

Soholoft has scheduled two webinars featuring top crowdfunding leaders from the emerging crowdfunding industry.  The focal point of The Soho Loft Webinar Series is to showcase the new industry of crowdfunding which possesses a distinctive set of opportunities as well as challenges. This series will clarify the history and development of the crowdfunding movement through… Read More

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February 28, 2013 @ 8:35 pm By David Drake  |  

This guest Q&A is by David Drake, founder and CEO of LDJ Capital and The Soho Loft. He recently sat down withChance Barnett, CEO of CrowdFunder, which enables businesses to raise equity and revenue-based financing. Drake: How do you feel about the progress the crowdfunding for equity portion of the JOBS Act has taken to… Read More

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February 19, 2013 @ 3:12 pm By David Drake  |  

It seems crowdfunding for equity in the US will take at least another year before it transforms the legislative and regulatory Securities & Exchange Commission Act of 1933 and 1934.  The US is the first and only country in the world actually changing its charters to allow crowdfunding for equity to roam freely among its… Read More

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January 20, 2013 @ 8:06 am By CFI Correspondent  |  

The Soho Loft is expanding its financial innovation conferences globally.  Led by financial innovation visionary David Drake, the firm now co-produces over 250 events per annum globally on financial innovation.  The global growth strategy of The Soho Loft is embracing strategic global partners like EFactor, FundingPost and TechMeetUps to encompass their expansion to the US… Read More

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January 5, 2013 @ 2:49 pm By Equities.com  |  

To probe the legal intricacies revolving around the JOBS Act and how these new laws might impact the crowdfunding scene in the next months leading to and right after the much-anticipated full implementation of crowdfunding for equity, David Drake spoke with Scott Purcell, CEO of Arctic Island. Drake:Scott, you are a co-founder of the leading… Read More

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December 31, 2012 @ 11:38 am By David Drake  |  

The following guest post is by David Drake, founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a New York City private-equity firm, and of The Soho Loft Capital Creation Events series, a global events and media company. CrowdFunding will lead the way! The first half of 2013 will be a time when self-assessed delivery, customer and consumer communication and… Read More

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December 27, 2012 @ 2:00 pm By Forbes  |  

While 2012 was an amazing year for crowdfunding, 2013 should outdo it. Here are my half dozen predictions for the year – and why this new form of capital formation will continue to soar. 1. The Global Crowdfunding will double in annual revenue to $6 billion in 2013 Crowdfunding was exploding quietly in 2012 for… Read More

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November 9, 2012 @ 8:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) November 09, 2012 David Drake of The Soho Loft will discuss at the Thomson Reuter’s Buyouts Texas conference in Dallas on November 13-14 how the JOBS Act and Dodd Frank Act will affect private equity firms and companies globally. An industry thought leader in capital creation—particularly in terms of the opportunities opened… Read More

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November 7, 2012 @ 2:40 pm By The Soho Loft  |  

Kevin McGovern, Founder of SoBe soft drinks, sold to Pepsi for $325 million, and current Trustee at Cornell University, has taken a board advisory position with The Soho Loft.  The intention is to build TSL to a media company and allow capital creation such as SME policy, crowd funding and Regulation D to flourish. Kevin… Read More

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October 14, 2012 @ 10:22 am By JD Alois  |  

October 12, 2012 – Today in Moscow former Russian President and current Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will open the 7th All Russia Science Festival, appearing at the grand opening gala.   The Science Festival is organized by Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Moscow Government and the Lomonosov Moscow State… Read More

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October 8, 2012 @ 8:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowd funding “green” education for institutions The Soho Loft founder and Chairman David Drake will give a groundbreaking presentation on crowd funding for equity to education leaders at an international conference in Moscow, Russia. Mr Drake’s presentation, “Crowdfunding as an Alternative Financial Support of University Innovation”, at Green Enterprising and University Innovation for a Sustainable… Read More

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September 17, 2012 @ 9:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

David speaks on what portals should be considering, SEC delays and crowdfunding as a trillion-dollar market.

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