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Link: http://www.thecrowdcafe.com/union-square-ventures-circleup/ As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, CircleUp announced its $7.5 million Series A yesterday. Surpassing Funders Club’s $6 million...
Great insight on real estate crowdfunding from the CEO of RealtyMogul. Article Link: http://www.thecrowdcafe.com/talking-real-estate-crowdfunding-realtymogul/
Investment crowdfunding is going to disrupt and re-shape early stage capital markets. But not only for the reasons you’ve likely heard. There’s more to it. Crowdfunding is the product of not...
Full article: http://www.thecrowdcafe.com/university-crowdfunding/ I speak often about the opportunity to couple investment crowdfunding with existing financial, intellectual and physical...
Full Link: http://www.thecrowdcafe.com/dawn-of-accredited-crowdfunding/ In the last month a number of new accredited crowdfunding platforms have come online. They join FundersClub, CircleUp, and...
Full Article: http://www.thecrowdcafe.com/crowdfunding-motivations/ Why will people participate in investment crowdfunding — what will motivate them? The beauty of this foundational question is...
Full link: http://www.thecrowdcafe.com/segmenting-investment-crowdfunding/ A look at who's who in the investment crowdfunding industry, and what market(s) their positioning for.
Want to get some idea of how large equity crowdfunding raises are? Jonathan Sandlund writes in once again to discuss the average investment amounts across several equity crowdfunding platforms.
Full article: http://www.thecrowdcafe.com/green-pleasant-crowdcube/ Green & Pleasant is a British beer company founded to produce all-natural craft-brewed lager and lemon shandy. It is the...
Link: http://www.thecrowdcafe.com/secondmarket-the-face-of-equity-crowdfunding/ But coupled with CircleUp, I believe we’re seeing the first strokes of a much larger picture being painted. One...
The CrowdFunded is a CrowdCafe news category that highlights successfully executed raises across global investment crowdfunding platforms. Crowdfunding is working today; these companies, and...
A five-part series that expresses my personal thoughts and research on the magnificent implications investment crowdfunding holds for small businesses, investors, and communities. Link:...
Jonathan Sandlund recently spoke with Seedrs CEO Jeff Lynn and was kind enough to share the conversation with us. They discuss Seedrs' business model, successful raises, U.K.'s regulatory framework, and more.
Jonathan Sandlund writes in to discuss WeFunder's recent self-run, crowdfunded financing round, and looks at some of the other platforms that have done the same.
Full Link: http://www.thecrowdcafe.com/microcosm-equity-crowdfunding/
Jonathan Sandlund writes in to offer his take on the SEC's recent forum on Small Business Capital Formation. He is discouraged by the commission's feet dragging and offers a look at a validated model of crowdfunding that has prevented fraudulent activity.
Jonathan Sandlund writes in again, this time sharing his recent interview with Paul Niederer, CEO of the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB), the world’s largest equity crowdfunding platform. Sandlund finds out how the platform got started and what makes it so fraud-proof.
The Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB) is an equity crowdfunding platform that has successfully served both accredited and non-accredited investors since 2007, raising $130,409,669...
In late October at the Crowdfuture Conference in Rome (www.CrowdFuture.net), my esteemed colleague Oliver Gajda released ‘A Framework for European Crowdfunding,’ a joint effort between Oliver,...
Jonathan Sandlund, founder of localinvestors.org and a crowdfunding evangelist, writes in to discuss the various existing platforms that will soon offer crowdfunding to accredited investors. He also touches upon the difficulties new companies will face if they wish to break into this space.
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