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Paul Spinrad speaks with the Electronic Retailing Association's Dan Williams about crowdfunding and the market for direct response products sold directly to consumers from the entities that make them.
For last week's symposium on the JOBS Act, Berkeley Law put together a great list of recent law journal and other articles about the JOBS Act and Crowdfunding.
Startup Channel will launch next month, on YouTube for now, to publish three-minute elevator pitches for new companies, plus supporting content, drawn from their database of 6,000+ business plans....
Draft multiple-choice examination seeks to educate and qualify new/unsophisticated investors by outlining common "risk factors" or "red flags" for online investing.
Join in on a sure thing like a horde of ants on a picnic table, or strike out alone to find a more tasty morsel elsewhere? Crowdfunders tend to revel in the outsider approach, says contributor Paul Spinrad.
Is Kickstarter more about supporting cool projects or digital peer pressure? Paul Spinrad responds to a recent critique of the crowdfunding social scene.
Some look to gamification as a powerful way of addressing real-world problems. But crowdfunding could be how we "gamify" the real world itself.
(Forwarded by Paul Jacobs) Under the America Invents Act, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been allowing preissuance submissions of prior art from third parties, without fee for a...
An Indiegogo campaign to raise $1,000 and a petition to the SEC launched an effort that would lead to the JOBS Act and legal crowdfunding for equity in the U.S. less than two years later. Paul Spinrad, the guy behind that first campaign shows just how influential the initial effort has become.
Paul Spinrad is the guy who gave the movement for a crowdfunding exemption in the U.S. its first big shove towards becoming law. In the first part of this exclusive series on Crowdsourcing.org, he recalled those early days and the efforts that have since begun to blossom in the form of the JOBS Act. Below, in the second half of the series, he also gives us an inside look at the fanatical devotion of some of crowdfunding's true believers.
Paul Spinrad is the guy who gave the movement for a crowdfunding exemption in the U.S. its first big shove towards becoming law. In this exclusive series on Crowdsourcing.org, he recalls those early days and the efforts that have since begun to blossom in the form of the JOBS Act. In the second half of the series, he also gives us an inside look at the fanatical devotion of some of crowdfunding's true believers.
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