Tagged: crowdfund capital advisors

Crowdfund Investing 101: 5 Things To Know Before Jumping In

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

SeedInvest Launches, Tackles Equity Crowdfunding with a Social Focus

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

Crowdfunding Anticipation Swells

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

Crowdfunding Panel: Big Things in 2013, Education Needed

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

Sherwood Neiss of Crowdfund Capital Advisors to Speak at SXSW 2013

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

Quote Compares Crowdfunding to Fracking

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

STATE REGULATORS CONTINUE THEIR MISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN ON CROWDFUNDING

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

Sherwood Neiss of Crowdfund Capital Advisors Responds to Group Crowdfunding

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

Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance Program Launched by UC Berkeley

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

New Research Shows Optimism For Crowdfund Investing Continues To Rise

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

Can Crowdfund Investing Bring Zombie Capital Back to Life?

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

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