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With the passing of the 2012 JOBS Act, Through the crowd-funding segment of the new Jobs Act, entrepreneurs can now offer small amounts of stock to individuals retirement investors through the...
The JOBS Act that the Senate passed includes several provisions to help investors avoid fraud and excessive investment losses. However, it does not go far enough to ensure the market success of...
The deal opens Google’s vast resources to Lending Club. This is just the latest in a string of big bets Google has made on tech aimed at changing the world. Google continues to work on tech like...
The Capitalist Collective is a website dedicated to sharing value investment ideas. They're an investment research exchange that connects professional and educated self-directed individual...
CommunityLeader is an online marketplace that connects private companies with prospective investors in a single intelligent network for accessing and managing equity Crowdfunding opportunities. If...
Signed into law by President Obama on April 5, the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act legalizes crowdfund investing in the United States. When the Securities and Exchange Commission’s nine-month legislative review process concludes, entrepreneurs across the country will be able to solicit and collect investments for their startups and small businesses via the Internet. But is the JOBS Act a beneficial piece of legislation for the average American? The bill’s ardent supporters argue it will democratize finance for the 99 percent and ameliorate the United States’ sputtering economy, while its loudest critics claim it will pave the way for another financial crisis. Whether the JOBS Act improves or depresses the American economy, it will fundamentally alter the country’s business ecosystem. It is, as President Obama called it, a “game-changer.”
Crowdahouse provides an innovative bank free way to invest in UK real estate property for income as well as growth. By removing the risks associated with bank finance, costs of interest and self...
A worldwide survey developed by blur Group showed that nearly half of entrepreneurs and start-ups are developing ‘knowledge-as-a-service’ (KaaS) business models and crowdsourcing is a popular method to jump-start projects.
The study had reviewed the 1,546 members that had particpated on the Innovatrs Exchange www.innovatrs.com , an innovation platform where corporations worldwide can discover, partner with or invest in innovative startups and entrepreneurs.
Crowdsourcing.org interviewed Philip Letts, the founder and CEO of blur Group, a London based international crowdsourced creative group with 11,784 creatives all over the world delivering relevant design, marketing, advertising, media and ideation services. Its main clients are CNN, Financial Times, GE Healthcare and Ralph Lauren.
A self-proclaimed "old-schooler" explains why the SEC may have chosen not to embrace crowdfunding, and what can be done to make the case to the old school.
Title III of the JOBS Act stipulates that crowdfunding intermediaries – brokers and funding portals – must provide educational materials to potential investors, and ensure that those thinking about investing their money review that information. We got in touch with EarlyShares chairman and co-founder Stephen Temes to discuss the company’s educational roadshow and the education provision in the JOBS Act.
The North American Securities Administrators Association’s (Nasaa) top 10 investor threats, released this week, include boiler-room staples, such as gold scams. But the list has several new...
uTest announce today three community-driven programs that may represent a paradigm change in mechanisms that drive worker performance. While the advantages of crowdsourcing to leverage a distributed virtual on-demand labor pool, to fulfill a range of tasks from simple to complex appear apparent, it seems the model is not without flaw. Numbers of staff can be ramped-up for a fee or turned off, typically without incremental cost. However, there are challenges managing a workforce that isn’t dedicated and not paid to turn up to work at 9am each day. So how do you optimize a workforce that works voluntarily? I spoke with Matt Johnston, uTest’s CMO, who shared some insights into their leading-edge approaches for worker management in a crowdsourcing environment.
The crowdsourcing platform is a virtual marketplace for freelancers and companies - this is where all projects are implemented online. Here the power lies in numbers. It's all about people coming together to work to achieve goals and solve problems. And to a large extent they are driven by their own motivation - not because a company has committed them to it. Both crowdsourcing and coworking are based on the fact that people who work in virtual and physical networks can in this way create a higher value collectively than if they acted independently. This is also true for problem-solving, innovation and creative output.
As crowdfunding becomes an ever more popular method for raising funds online, new sites continue to emerge that appeal to localities previously unexposed to the transformative fundraising model. One such site is Fondomat, the first crowdfunding enterprise in the Czech Republic. It’s also the “cheapest crowdfunding website to use for both creative projects and charity-based fundraising in the world,” boasts Fondomat co-founder Conrad Watts. Crowdsourcing.org spoke with Watts to get the inside scoop on his new crowdfunding venture.
President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act — and the provisions within it to legalize crowdfunding for equity in the United States — at around 2:40 PM EDT time today.
Yesterday we posted a piece from Candace Klein of SoMoLend and securities attorney Sean Peppard on how the crowdfunding portions of the JOBS Act will unroll over the next several months. Today we follow up with some more detail from attorney Mike Liles, Jr. of the firm Karr, Tuttle and Campbell.
Crowdsourcing.org held a very insightful and provocative live chat on Monday on the topic of establishing the regulatory framework for the new crowdfunding system just signed into law by President Obama in the JOBS Act. Much thanks to Jeff Bullock who volunteered to draft the following highlights and organize the transcript into the easier-to-read format at the end of this post.
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies — at least, according to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopedia for which he serves as an advisor. Shirky is also the author of Here Comes Everybody (2008) and Cognitive Surplus (2010), two books examining the results, ramifications and potential of aggregated individual action.
Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with web guru Clay Shirky about the JOBS Act, which President Obama signed into law on April 5. In the transcript — available after the jump — Shirky explains why he “would love to be able to offer essentially wholehearted support of the crowdfunding law,” but has several reservations about the regulatory relief embedded in the bill. (Spoiler: A lot comes down to the SEC’s interpretation of the law, which is ostensibly scheduled to conclude in the first few days of 2013.) Shirky also discusses Kickstarter’s present dominance in the crowdfunding space, the vagaries of pre-JOBS Act law in relation to crowdfunding, and the effect of the JOBS Act on the current startup ecosystem and traditional venture capital.
Here's every word of our second crowdfunding live chat, this one on what's legal and when under the JOBS Act.
Our fifth crowdfunding live chat took place here on Crowdsourcing.org yesterday. The discussion continued to center around how the industry will take shape and the regulatory framework that will govern it. A very lively and informative discussion, as always.
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