General News

March 3, 2014 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

United in the common purposes of promoting Equity Crowdfunding in Canada. Today, a group of companies and individuals dedicated to the developing Equity Crowdfunding industry in Canada, announced that they have come together by establishing the Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada (ECFA Canada), Canada’s first… Read More

March 3, 2014 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Sometime in the hours during the night of March 3, 2014, crowdfunding leader Kickstarter hurdled past the $1 billion mark in crowdfunding pledges.  An incredible mile marker for the company, as well as the industry, which still remains in the early years of development.  On… Read More

March 2, 2014 @ 4:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

The California Stock Xchange is organizing a panel of five seasoned professional investors to hear pitches from entrepreneurs selected from the Cal-X California Stock Exchange Pitch Challenge and Lions Den direct submissions. Similar in structure to the “Shark Tank” or Britain’s “Dragon’s Den”  entrepreneurs are… Read More

February 28, 2014 @ 4:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

The infographic below is courtesy of Clarity and the creative team at Column Five.  Clarity is a company that connects budding entrepreneurs  with advisors, along with industry experts to provide strategic advice, wisdom and some perspective while they help your business grow. As we wall… Read More

February 28, 2014 @ 8:16 am By JD Alois  |  

The Crowdsourcing Week 2014 Global Conference wants to aid a whole new generation of thinkers, innovators and leaders to learn and practice a crowd-centric business approach. Taking place in Singapore from April 7-11, 2014 the week-long event, themed “Crowd-Impact: Empowering Transformation”, is designed to help… Read More

February 27, 2014 @ 4:55 pm By Kiran Lingam  |  

There has been a lot of uproar about new rules requiring additional steps to verify accredited investor status (i.e. checking tax returns) as a condition to using the new 506(c) rules permitting general solicitation. The real problem here is that the definition of accredited investor is out of… Read More

February 27, 2014 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube Has Raised £20 Million, Invigorating British business. Worlds first equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, is celebrating their third birthday this month. Since their launch in February 2011, the company has raised over £19.9 million for 103 start-ups as well as small and growing businesses. These companies… Read More

February 27, 2014 @ 7:01 am By Kim Wales  |  

Now that we have seen what real turbulence is with the financial crisis of 2008, fear and panic are drivers of economic behavior. Strengthening the financial markets for America’s small businesses and closing the wealth gap amongst the crowd is a must. Now is not… Read More

February 26, 2014 @ 10:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

“MtGox is gone. So let’s prepare ourselves.” That is the first statement made in an article that ran yesterday in Business Insider entitled “I Have $285,000 Stuck On Mt. Gox.” Mt. Gox was once the de facto Bitcoin exchange, the first stop for those just getting into… Read More

February 26, 2014 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding portal truCrowd, has partnered with Electronic Verification Systems (EVS) to help improve their overall identity verification process for their investors and issuers. IdentiFraud Consumer will help ensure users are who they claim to be through identity verification and KBA. truCrowd will also use the EVS… Read More

February 25, 2014 @ 6:21 am By Lionel Slusny  |  

The European Cloud Industry in France Supports Crowdfunding. In recent document presented to the French Minister’s cabinet of Small and Medium Enterprises, Innovation, and the Digital Economy, the European Cloud industry representation in France makes a push for Crowdfunding. This call particularly applies for the web entrepreneur… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 5:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

With the support of Workspace Group, Buzzacott and the GLE group, Knowledge Peers will be launching the second phase of their research on crowdfunding. The market place for SME funding is increasingly inefficient. Funders struggle to find the “right” SMEs to finance, and SMEs struggle to… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 1:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

 Ice House, a global design and development firm today announced its official North American debut and its partnership with LAUNCH Festival (San Francisco, Feb 24-26) in the $50,000 ‘You Dream It, We Build It’ competition.  Ice House is the global design and development services specialist in applied mobile… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 10:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Paul Graham will take a step back from famed Silicon Valley tech accelerator Y Combinator to focus on his writing, although he will still consult startups. Over nine years at Y Combinator, Graham has built the organization into one of the most desirable entrepreneurial experiences… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

The Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada (ECFA Canada) is expected to make a formal announcement this coming Friday, February 28, 2014 regarding the formation of their group that will advocate on behalf of investment crowdfunding in Canada. ECFA Canada will be the voice of all… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 7:00 am By Samuel S. Guzik, The Crowdfunding Counselor  |  

Crowdfunding May Require JOBS Act 2.0. It started out as a noble idea. If only crowdfunding could go to the next level – from a paradigm where a multitude of individuals could join together – courtesy of the Internet – and fund a worthwhile social… Read More

February 23, 2014 @ 8:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) has posted a comment letter regarding proposed rule amendments regarding Regulation A+ on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s web site.  The NASAA is self described as an investor protection association with their members consisting of securities administrators from… Read More

February 21, 2014 @ 12:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Program Helps Alleviate the Cost of Fertility Treatments. Glow, a data science company that focuses on women’s reproductive health and education, is launching Glow for Enterprise – a program looking to redefine the standard for employee health benefits. In competitive hiring markets, companies are… Read More

February 21, 2014 @ 11:47 am By JD Alois  |  

MicroVentures, an investment crowdfunding platform, is announcing the debut of a new mobile crowdfunding app at this year’s LAUNCH Conference in San Francisco. The new MicroVentures app will allow conference attendees indicate interest to invest in the very startups that are presenting at the conference,… Read More

February 20, 2014 @ 11:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prodigy Network, one of the first crowdfunding for real estate platforms, has announced the launch of “Prodigy Design Lab”, the very first crowdsourcing platform dedicated to real estate, architecture, interiors, and urban planning. The first competition hosted on this new platform is for the design of the… Read More