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The political climate is on the crowdfunding supporters’ side. Both the administration and Congress want to be seen doing something to boost the economy in an election year: The bipartisan...
The two-man CCA team, Sherwood Neiss and Jason Best, originally worked together at Startup Exemption, the company that launched the Crowdfunding effort and developed the framework which allowed...
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...
While crowdfund investing is legal in many EU countries, such as the UK & Netherlands that have an under $100k Euro exemption, each country has individual security administrations and...
With the well-established institutional frameworks of South-Africa and Cape Town, the city is an ideal piloting area for such new mechanisms by providing stable and proven legal institutions,...
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...
Sherwood Neiss and along with 2 entrepreneurs (Jason Best and Zak Cassady-Dorion) set out to change this. Using the fundamentals of Crowdfunding, they matched it up with the principles of seed...
As the groups note in their letter: “On these platforms, investors will dynamically engage with other investors to vet business ideas and fund those businesses that have significant promise....
Crowdfund Investing would make equity-based crowdfunding legal. It would facilitate the ability of entrepreneurs to raise money from family, friends and associates in his or her community, within...
Some of the advantages of adapting businesses to The Framework of Crowdfunding are: 1. Saving Time And Costs 2. Free From Financial Restrictions 3. Free From Loan Commitments 4. Securing...
In this post Drake offers some recommendations on how to handle consumer protection and documentation under the emerging crowdfunding framework.
In this post, the fourth in a series, David Drake offers some recommendations on how to address the issue of due diligence under the emerging crowdfunding framework.
In this post, the fourth in a series, David Drake offers some recommendations on how to address "held of record" matters under the emerging crowdfunding framework.
Crowdfund Capital Advisors, an advisory, implementation, and education firm, recently released a white paper focusing on crowdfunding and its potential impact on the economy both in the U.S. and abroad. The authors' purpose is exploring “how governments can unlock the power of crowdfund investing by enabling companies to leverage the social Web to encourage community financing, community engagement, and business innovation.”
A European crowdfunding network needs to be established, which brings together platform owners, project owners, policy makers and interested experts for an ongoing discussion on the European...
The Theme 500 framework is the first crowdfunding framework developed for WordPress, is fully extensible and customizable via WordPress child themes, and is built to integrate with the IgnitionDeck...
Crowdsourcing.org founder Carl Esposti offers this in-depth look at the crowdfunding bills now being considered in Washington, D.C. and how they could shape the future. This is the first post in a two-part series.
A well-reasoned and succinct critique from long-time Angel Investor Bill Payne written way back in November that does a good job summing up most of what crowdfunding opponents have been saying.
The U.S. House of Representative is scheduled to vote sometime after noon (EDT) on H.R. 3606, also referred to as the JOBS Act, the IPO Act, the Startup bill, or the Crowdfunding bill.
Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill legalizing crowdfunded investments on to President Obama for his signature and the past few days the nation and world have continued to react.
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