General News

November 19, 2012 @ 4:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 19, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Amidst controversy around retailers opening their stores for “Black Thursday” Thanksgiving Day shopping, and subjecting their employees to working marathon hours on “Black Friday”, the world’s largest crowdfunding-for-good platform, Fundly, today launched its #GivingTuesday initiative at… Read More

November 19, 2012 @ 2:01 pm By Jonathan Sandlund, The Crowd Cafe  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission hosted its annual Small Business Capital Formation forum last Thursday. Crowdfunding under Title II and Title III of the JOBS Act was top of mind. We were hoping for a substantive update – the SEC is well beyond congressionally mandated… Read More

November 19, 2012 @ 1:57 pm By Daniel Gorfine and Ben Miller, The Exchange  |  

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, passed into law in April of this year, has the potential to help startups and small businesses raise capital through numerous, small investments from “the crowd.” This widely discussed crowdfunding exemption is found in Title III of the… Read More

November 19, 2012 @ 1:55 pm By Sudeep Reddy and Scott Thurm  |  

U.S. companies are scaling back investment plans at the fastest pace since the recession, signaling more trouble for the economic recovery. Half of the nation’s 40 biggest publicly traded corporate spenders have announced plans to curtail capital expenditures this year or next, according to a… Read More

November 19, 2012 @ 1:52 pm By Russ Garland, Wall Street Journal  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission is sending fresh signals that it intends to modify rules governing small private and public companies to give them greater access to capital, but the agency faces a wide range of views on how to balance this against its mandate to… Read More

November 19, 2012 @ 7:45 am By JD Alois  |  

            Lendio Considers the Implications of a Reduction in Small Business Lending SOUTH JORDAN, UT–(Marketwire – Nov 19, 2012) – The Washington Post reports that, during September of this year, small business owners borrowed less money overall. The publication asserts… Read More

November 19, 2012 @ 5:32 am By Santa Fe New Mexican  |  

A Santa Fe Institute researcher wants to test a remote tracking tool that could be used to gather data about isolated South American groups. Anthropologist Marcus J. Hamilton is enlisting the public’s help in raising money for the project through a crowdfunding site called Rocket… Read More

November 18, 2012 @ 9:03 pm By Washington Post  |  

Ever since President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act in April, entrepreneurs and investors have been buzzing about the promise of new paths to start-up capital. But the clock is ticking for the regulators charged with implementing the law, and with little more… Read More

November 18, 2012 @ 5:26 pm By Venture Beat  |  

Every 20 seconds, a child dies from a water-related illness. Startling statistics like these can make it hard to stomach the millions of dollars funneled into the latest social networking or e-commerce app, but a new wave of social entrepreneurship is taking on the idea… Read More

November 18, 2012 @ 3:27 pm By Terra  |  

Many African-Americans want to run their own businesses. Some surveys show that African-Americans are more interested in running their own businesses than whites. African-Americans are more likely to initiate the new-business creation process than whites although they are less likely to have an up-and-running business… Read More

November 17, 2012 @ 3:21 pm By Mark Mohler, Crowdfunding Law  |  

Well, after the SEC’s much anticipated Annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation yesterday, I’d hoped to post something of value regarding the state of the SEC’s effort to write the rules necessary for Title II and Title III crowdfunding.  After all, there was a… Read More

November 17, 2012 @ 3:15 pm By William Michael Cunningham  |  

On November 15th, the SEC held a Forum on Small Business Capital Formation. The first thing to notice about this lineup is that it includes no African Americans. None. I think this is reflective of the Agency’s stance in a number of ways. We have written… Read More

November 17, 2012 @ 4:47 am By Washingont Post  |  

Like many early-stage entrepreneurs, Shefali Friesen poured all her personal savings into her start-up, a mobile service for adding bits of music evoking emotions to text messages. As she worked toward her graduate degree in music at New York University, Friesen felt neither the start-up… Read More

November 17, 2012 @ 1:54 am By HuffingtonPost  |  

Each time the Empire City has been faced with a disaster — whether natural or otherwise — New Yorkers have shown remarkable resilience, rallying together to help affected communities, organizing food and clothing drives, opening their doors to friends and neighbors less fortunate and beginning… Read More

November 16, 2012 @ 3:51 pm By BusinessWeek  |  

For all the hype around small businesses raising money by selling equity stakes to individuals online, no one knows what this type of crowdfunding will actually look like. Since Congress relaxed securities laws this spring to make it easier for entrepreneurs to fund their businesses,… Read More

November 16, 2012 @ 3:47 pm By Forbes  |  

Crowdfunding: Everyone’s doing it! Or are they? In reality, there are many things to consider when jumping into one of the hottest trends in the world of entrepreneurs, both positive and negative. Whole companies have launched through the interest and generosity of strangers who believe… Read More

November 16, 2012 @ 1:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Did you ever want to donate an entire hospital unit to benefit sick children but didn’t have $12 million handy? Problem solved. Two St. Louis children’s hospitals are partnering with Fundly, a crowdfunding-for-good platform, to give people a way to directly help sick children. Read… Read More

November 16, 2012 @ 7:13 am By Statesman  |  

Scarlett Milling is like many 7-year-old Austin girls. She loves gymnastics, cheerleading and the online game Minecraft. She also loves dolls, specifically American Girl dolls. When her mother, Mary Moore, who writes essays for the Huffington Post, showed Scarlett a Huffington Post story about American… Read More

November 15, 2012 @ 8:40 pm By Forbes  |  

This week I’ve polled a variety of people with experience in crowdfunding to identify the secrets for success for social entrepreneurs.  I’ve talked to people who’ve tried to raise money using crowdfunding and have raised absolutely nothing.  Others have been blown away by the generosity… Read More

November 15, 2012 @ 6:41 pm By International Law Office  |  

n an economic climate in which creative and artistic projects arguably face the greatest barriers to traditional forms of finance, many are now turning to the ‘crowd’ as an alternative source of funding. This update discusses the use of crowdfunding in the media, technology and… Read More