General News

January 18, 2013 @ 5:54 am By Bloomberg  |  

New U.S. securities laws intended to help startup companies raise money are poised to benefit real estate investors as well, allowing individuals to buy stakes in offices and other commercial buildings once off limits to them. The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act will ease restrictions… Read More

January 18, 2013 @ 4:03 am By Real Business  |  

Start-ups and early stage businesses have usually been the territory of the three f’s: friends, family and fools. Typically, when the f’s have been exhausted, the projects that survived and still show promise would turn to institutional providers – banks, debt providers and venture capitalists…. Read More

January 17, 2013 @ 10:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Don’t Miss the Revolution: A New Economy Is Here! Scheduled for January 24th, The Harvard Business School Association of Boston is holding a seminar on crowdfunding featuring some of the leaders of this burgeoning industry.  The scheduled speakers for the panel are currently: Sarah Hanks… Read More

January 17, 2013 @ 8:18 pm By WSJ.com  |  

Regulators are scrutinizing about 200 websites set up by entrepreneurs to profit from a more lenient law on the sale of shares in small companies. State securities officials identified the websites after a sweep of thousands of Internet addresses for possible threats to investors following… Read More

January 17, 2013 @ 10:28 am By Jonathan Sandlund, The Crowd Cafe  |  

From The Crowd Cafe’s Jonathan Sandlund… I had the opportunity to sit down with David Rose. Penned by Forbes as the “Father of Angel Investing in New York,” David is a serial entrepreneur and mentor, Chair of the New York Angels, and the CEO of… Read More

January 17, 2013 @ 6:12 am By Xconomy  |  

Kickstarter helped pioneer crowdfunding for creative projects. It has been enormously successful. The Kickstarter model is to set a fundraising goal. If the project meets its goal, the money is transferred to the creators to fund the development of the project. Kickstarter collects a 5 percent fee, the… Read More

January 16, 2013 @ 9:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

CommunityLeader is scheduled to launch a demo of their Crowdfunding solution platform Apicista on Friday, February 1st at 12PM PST. Apicista is described as, A robust investor relationship management engine behind CommunityLeader’s comprehensive Crowdfunding solution. As a fully compliant online platform for Crowdfunding businesses, chambers… Read More

January 16, 2013 @ 6:06 pm By WRAL  |  

Raleigh residents won’t be paying for bike racks and other small endeavors after City Council members on Tuesday rejected a pilot program through which residents privately fund neighborhood projects. In a 4-4 vote, council members sidestepped the crowd-funding program operated by SeeClickFix, a mobile app… Read More

January 16, 2013 @ 5:02 pm By NuWire Investor  |  

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… Read More

January 16, 2013 @ 9:59 am By Bloomberg  |  

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)

January 16, 2013 @ 7:59 am By JD Alois  |  

In Deloitte’s (Canada) annual release of predictions for 2013 crowdfunding gets noticed.  The Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Team is predicting that crowdfunding will raise $3 Billion by the end of 2013 despite some risks.  A 100% increase over 2011. They note that in Ontario,… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 10:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

EarlyShares, a leading equity Crowdfunding investment platform that will enable thousands of investors to invest in small businesses, has formally announced the hiring of Leverage PR  to serve as its national agency of record. Leverage PR has helped EarlyShares gain widespread recognition for launching its… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 7:54 pm By WSJ.com  |  

One of the very first hurdles that a new entrepreneur faces is how to find the initial capital necessary to fund the process of building a company. Most entrepreneurs begin using their own money for the initial costs. Eventually, however, the time comes that it no longer… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 7:02 pm By Forbes  |  

In April 2012, President Obama signed the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, aiming to revitalize opportunities for entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses; e.g. America’s main job creators. Briefly, main benefits of the JOBS Act as it is now are as follows. The JOBS Act… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 6:48 pm By Entrepreneur  |  

To make the leap from theory to reality, crowdfunding will require the core elements of entrepreneurial spirit: a tolerance for risk and an urgency to execute on a great idea. Sadly, both of those qualities are in short supply in Washington, D.C. While the U.S. government slid… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 6:44 pm By Forbes  |  

Private Equity, funds, angel networks and broker dealers are embracing the technology underpinning crowdfunding with its standards of deal presentation and distribution channels to potential investors. According to Jouko Ahvenainen, Chairman and co-founder of Grow VC, “At Grow VC Group we work with many broker dealers to offer our platform… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 7:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Front Page PR, rolled out a new “Crowdfunding Press Center”  to help reporters, industry analysts as well as entrepreneurs, small businesses and accredited investors get acclimated to the new equity crowdfunding industry which is about to skyrocket in the United States. Regardless of whether clients… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 1:01 am By Washington Business Journal  |  

The SEC is dragging its feet on hashing out the rules for equity crowdfunding, and thekvetching from crowdfunding advocates is growing louder. Mary Schapiro stepping down as SEC chairwoman hasn’t exactly lifted hopes that the agency will produce a set of rules in a timely fashion. AOL co-founder and… Read More

January 14, 2013 @ 8:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Expedition PR announced today that Seed&Spark, the first end-to-end solution for independent films to fund, produce, and distribute their films using the power of the crowd, has named Expedition PR as its public relations and marketing partner. Founded in 2009 and based in Brooklyn, NY, Expedition PR… Read More

January 14, 2013 @ 8:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Self described as the Oscars of the Start Up & Tech World, TechCrunch’s 6th annual Crunchies Awards includes two leading crowdfunding sites:   both Kickstarter and Indiegogo are on the list as nominees for the Biggest Social Impact for 2012.  CrowdTilt is another crowdfunding site which… Read More