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This past Thursday, President Obama signed the JOBS Act, legalizing crowdfund investing in the United States. Although numerous people influenced the legislative process surrounding crowdfunding and JOBS Act, Sherwood Neiss and his fellow Startup Exemption co-founders were central figures in that process. The bill would not have passed — in fact, would not even exist — if not for the tireless efforts of these three individuals over the last 15 months. Neiss and his partners crafted the original crowdfund investing framework (which remains largely unchanged in the final JOBS Act), testified at two Congressional hearings surrounding access to capital for entrepreneurs, and lobbied vigorously on Capitol Hill for the ideal implementation and passage of a crowdfund investing bill. Eric Blattberg of Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with Sherwood Neiss about all things JOBS Act: its conceptualization, the legislative process, its ultimate passage, its benefits and potential drawbacks, its media reception and much more.
According to Jason Best of Startup Exemption;"It was actually born in 2011 when I was at a friend’s wedding.Myself, Sherwood Neiss and Zak Cassady-Dorion started talking about how hard it...
Check out this blog find out more about Sherwood Neiss and his colleagues's advocacy for the SEC to update the securities laws to make it legal for groups of people to pool small dollar...
Eric Blattberg of Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with Sherwood Neiss about the JOBS Act: its conceptualization, the subsequent legislative process, its ultimate passage, its potential benefits and drawbacks, its media and public reception, and much more. The second part of that discussion is available after the jump.
Sherwood Neiss, co-founder of Starup Exemption and one of the leading figures behind the JOBS Act, will be discussing the “Essentials of Crowdfunding” in a livestream, tomorrow, Friday August 10, between 12:30 and 1:30 EST.
Crowdfunding has grown in popularity over the past 5 years with millions of individuals contributing mainly to art related projects. Entrepreneurs see CFI as a way to raise moderate amounts of...
Crowdfund Investing (CFI) is a concept that originates from crowdfunding. The main difference is in crowdfunding, a group of individuals are “donating” small amounts of money to an idea (mainly...
Startup America is a nonprofit alliance of entrepreneurs and major corporations. Startup America is led by Steve Case and Reid Hoffman. Miniofferings are for small business owners seeking private...
Sherwood Neiss, founder of Startup Exemption, shares 13 lessons from his journey to help pass crowdfunding legislation in the U.S.
Crowd funding appears to be at a start of some real and deserved buzz. Raising venture capital through the crowd could be a good option for companies who see their own future in the social space or...
As an alternative, the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) in Oakland petitioned the SEC last year for a new exemption to cover investment offerings where individual investments are capped at...
Easing the SEC regulations on business funding is one of the rare initiatives that appeal to Democrats and Republicans, and President Barack Obama's recent jobs act cited the Startup...
In response to the concerns raised by many small business owners, on November 3rd, the House approved H.R. 2930 - the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” a bipartisan supported bill, which...
President Barack Obama has endorsed changes to regulations that would allow for crowdfunding to become more venture-capital-esque. Meanwhile, Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., introduced legislation...
The proposed bill would allow anyone to invest in a company provided that that person didn’t contribute more than $10,000 a year—or 10 percent of their annual income,whichever is smaller....
The opponents want you to focus on something that will grab the media’s attention (fraud). This also distracts the debate while trying to prevent regular Americans from supporting entrepreneurs...
How the Pareto principle--also known as the 80-20 rule--relates to the Crowdfunding bills being considered in Washington, D.C.
There are two sides to every story. The same can be said for those who support and those who are against Crowdfunding. The proponents tend to be entrepreneurs, innovators, and America’s jobs engine. They are the ones advocating in favor of allowing entrepreneurs to raise a limited amount of capital from their friends, family & community. They are a fragmented group by nature, heads in the sand, focused on their businesses without deep pockets or the backing of special interests. The major opponents to crowdfunding are the SEC, FINRA and NASAA. They are government bureaucratic agencies with a vested interest in the current system, widespread oversight and deep pockets. Their job is to protect and regulate the large, often complex, public markets. However they tend to do so at the expense of small businesses. Overly bureaucratic rules, we see time and again, have a trickle-down effect on small businesses that hamper growth.
Find below a summary of the arguments for and against Crowdfund Investing.
Representative Patrick McHenry (R-NC), the driving force behind the H.R. 2930 crowdfund investing bill currently under consideration in the U.S. Senate, discovered crowdfunding the same way many of America’s college frat houses sate their thirst: through Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Supporters of Rep. Patrick McHenry's Crowdfunding bill, H.R. 2930, are putting together a Crowdfunding campaign to try and get their Crowdsourced ad in support of the Crowdfunding bill into an upcoming issue of Politico and in front of the eyes of more members of the political crowd.
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