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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...
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...
The crowdfunding proposals before the Senate require an “intermediary” to manage transactions. But the bill that passed the House at the end of last year doesn’t, and that could be a problem.
In an effort to address some of these concerns, Senate Democrats added several amendments to the legislation that would increase protections for investors. Under the Senate version of the bill,...
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...
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...
A new legislation is being issued in Italy by the government Monti. A number of reforms related to innovation among which legalization of crowdfunding for startups. Startups will be able to raise...
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,...
Sustainable Economies Law Center sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal body charged with regulating securities, with a modest proposal. The SEC received over 150...
The start-up, Innovestment, is a crowdinvesting platform for startup-investments. It is not a micro-financing site, but more one that allows people with a real demand for investing money the...
Here are five things you should know about crowdfunding: 1. Projects, Not Businesses 2. All Is Not Well in Crowdfunding Land 3. Legal Issues 4. New Crowdfunding Legislation 5....
In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last Thursday, NASAA President Jack Herstein argued that crowdfunding would not even be necessary if entrepreneurs could easily get the funding...
Lucidon’s The Legal Stranger Project documents, through a series of intimate personal stories, the great disparities encountered by lesbian and gay couples under the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)...
Specifically, Congress should make Rule 506 usable in the crowd funding context. How? Remove the ban on general solicitation--period; for all offerings. Allow companies to advertise for funds...
In this guest post, business lawyer and serial entrepreneur Mark Mohler responds to claims that legalizing crowdfunding in exchange for equity in the U.S. would be bad for business.
In light of threatened legal action, Black Powder Media has pulled Vector Tanks and Vector Tanks Extreme from the app store because “It doesn’t seem to matter that the game bears only a vague...
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.
In the second part of a two-part series on the Crowdfunding bills currently stalled in the U.S. Senate, Crowdsourcing.org founder Carl Esposti addresses some of the central criticisms levelled at the legislation.
The new taskforce will look at the challenges facing small businesses seeking finance options. It will be led by Tim Breedon, Legal and General chief executive and current chairman of the...
In the itbusiness.ca article, they touched on the fact that Ideavibes has developed a social media platform for equity crowdfunding for startups and why ideavibes can’t launch it yet:...
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