On Wednesday night (December 5, 2012), Dave had the opportunity to address the Boulder Startup Meetup about investment crowdfunding. If you want to watch both a good overview on the topic, a very open-eyed analysis of where crowdfunding currently stands, and a good question-and-answer session on both, we suggest you give it a watch. Let [...]
View Post banks, boulder startup, crowdfunding, Dave Milliken, lecture, startup, videoTake a look at this article about filings being made in an alleged crowdfunding fraud case. Interesting stuff, except for the fact that the headline could not be more incorrect. This story is not about crowdfunding at all, and it certainly does not illustrate a scenario that will occur more when the rules for investment [...]
View Post crowd investing, crowdfunding, investment crowdfunding, small businessOn November 26, 2012, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L. Schapiro announced that she will step down on December 14, 2012. It has been under Chairman Schapiro’s watch that the SEC had been working to shape the regulations that will govern investment crowdfunding under the JOBS Act. Implementation of the rules will now fall to current SEC [...]
View Post Elisse Walter, JOBS Act, Mary L. Schapiro, President Obama, SEC, Securities and Exchange CommisionEarlier this week mobile scanner manufacturer Couragent Inc. announced they were launching an equity crowdfunding offering. Legally able to raise money from residents of Colorado, Illinois, New York, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, this makes Couragent the first American company to legally use investment crowdfunding. We are excited and thankful that Couragent chose to use Funding Launchpad’s [...]
View Post Colorado Companies to Watch, couragent, couragent.net, courinvestor.com, crowd funding, crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding, equity-based crowdfunding, flip pal, Fort Collins, Ft. Collins, genealogy, Gordon Nuttall, growth companies, heritage, investment crowd funding, investment crowdfunding, mobile scanner, mobile scanning, Northern Colorado, scrap booking, scrapbookingThis week, the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA), of which Funding Launchpad is a founding member, submitted recommendations to the Securities and Exchange Commission on general solicitation under the JOBS Act, including recommendations on safe harbors for investment adviser issues, fraud, crowd commentary, peer-to-peer lending, and matching. To back up a step, a “safe harbor” [...]
View Post CFIRA, crowd funding, crowdfunding, Crowdfunding Intermediary Regulatory Advocates, general solicitation, investment crowdfunding, JOBS Act, SEC, securities and exchange commission, title 3, title iiiEarlier this week, Reuters published an editorial titled “Five steps the SEC can take to make crowdfunding work“. Shane Fleenor, Funding Launchpad’s Chief Legal Officer, added comments reminding readers that investment crowdfunding is about startups and small business, not Wall Street and business as usual for the finance industry. For your reading pleasure, we have [...]
View Post CFIRA, crowd funding, CrowdFund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates, crowdfunding, reuters, sara hanks, SEC, securities and exchange commission, Wall StreetIn Funding Launchpad’s third blog post analyzing Crowdsourcing.org’s Crowdfunding Industry Report, we take an in-depth look at the growth of the crowdfunding industry. As we touched on in our last blog post, Thinking of Launching a Crowdfunding Platform? Join the Crowd!, the crowdfunding industry’s global revenues are exploding. In 2009, industry revenue was $530 million. Revenue [...]
View Post analysis, crowd funding, crowdfunding, donation-based, equity-based, investment crowdfunding, microloans, peer-to-peer lendingEarlier this month Crowdsourcing.org published their “Crowdfunding Industry Report” based on survey responses from 170 crowdfunding sites. (We view it as a nice supplement to our “Consumer Interest in Investment Crowdfunding” white paper, which is based on consumer research.) This blog post is the first of several that will analyze this research. Over the past [...]
View Post crowd funding, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing.org, donation-based crowdfunding, equity-based crowdfunding, investment crowdfunding, Kickstarter, PebbleA cleverly crafted publicity campaign can provide third party validation that there is a market for, and interest in, your crowdfunding campaign. Furthermore, it shows investors that you are considered knowledgeable enough in your field to be used as a source for the media. Media coverage will also boost your Google rankings, increasing visibility to [...]
View Post crowd funding, crowdfunding, investment crowdfunding, Joy Schoffler, Leverage PR, PR, public relations, publicityAs we mentioned in our recent blog post about advocating for the investment crowdfunding regulatory framework, the SEC is inviting the public to comment on the JOBS Act, including the investment crowdfunding provisions found in Title III. Funding Launchpad formally submitted our comments to the SEC on Friday, April 27. Our comments can also be [...]
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