Tagged: crowdfund capital advisors

February 24, 2013 @ 12:16 pm By InvestmentNews  |  

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… Read More

February 19, 2013 @ 8:42 am By Sherwood Niess and Jason Best, Crowdfund Capital Advisors  |  

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… Read More

February 12, 2013 @ 10:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

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… Read More

February 6, 2013 @ 5:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

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 9, 2013 @ 3:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

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… Read More

January 4, 2013 @ 10:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

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…. Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 9:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In this video, Sherwood Neiss of Startup Exemption and Crowdfund Capital Advisors explains the JOBS Act and how crowdfunding can help small businesses.

December 27, 2012 @ 7:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Interesting quote attributed to Jason Best and Sherwood (Woodie) Neiss from Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA). This is from a piece in Business News Daily talking about trends for 2013: “Small businesses produce 50 percent of the jobs in America, but have access to 1 percent… Read More

December 7, 2012 @ 3:45 pm By Crowdfund Capital Advisors  |  

Equity and debt-based crowdfunding (aka crowdfund investing) isn’t even live yet and State regulators, rather than engage in effective and productive dialogue with our industry on how to best protect investors, has chosen to continue its misinformation campaign by describing fraud that is NOT crowdfunding,… Read More

November 28, 2012 @ 6:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Last month I wrote an article about how a fund of funds may help some investors participate in crowdfunding.  Interested in additional perspective on the idea, I reached out to Sherwood Neiss of Crowdfund Capital Advisors for his take.  His response was as follows: (f) Applicability- Section 4(6) shall not apply to transactions… Read More

November 14, 2012 @ 11:17 am By JD Alois  |  

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Crowdfunding — the social web strategies that entrepreneurial individuals and companies use to attract large pools of small investors — is driving innovation in areas ranging from high-tech to entertainment. Now, the mainstream venture capital industry is taking… Read More

November 1, 2012 @ 2:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this year I wrote in Harvard Business Review about the coming legalization of Crowdfund Investing in the U.S. in my article “Don’t Abandon Crowdfunding, Manage It”   That article noted that crowdfunding is rising fast as a significant source of funding for startup ventures, based… Read More

October 31, 2012 @ 1:30 pm By Sherwood Niess and Jason Best, Crowdfund Capital Advisors  |  

Here’s a Halloween tale sure to leave you awake at night. It’s the tale of Zombie Capital… the scourge of the American economy, sucking the very life out of the public equity markets. (Okay, we all know zombies normally eat brains, but for the sake… Read More