Take 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 CommisionThis week, Slate ran a “cover story” titled The Kickstarter Recession. The article argued “economic growth—gross domestic product—is made of money, not dreams. A sudden shift in the share of labor and capital that are devoted to dream-following would show up in national account statistics as a large fall in productivity”, which caused quite a stir [...]
View Post Brian Tsushiya, crowd funding, crowdfunding, Slate, startup guruFunding Launchpad Chief Marketing Officer Dave Milliken recently wrote a guest blog post for public relations firm Leverage PR titled “Crowdfunding Explain- An In Depth Look” (we did not name it, but it sure sounds great). This post provide a brief history of crowdfunding and describes the four types of crowdfunding in broad use today. [...]
View Post crowd funding, crowdfunding, donation-based crowdfunding, explained, investment crowdfunding, Joy Schoffler, Leverage PR, microfinance, peer-to-peer lendingEarlier 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 StreetShhh. I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Next week, Funding Launchpad is going to announce our intention to become an investment crowdfunding platform. You might say that we’re dreamers, but we’re not the only one. This is our second analysis of Crowdsourcing.org’s Crowdfunding Industry Report, looking at the explosion in crowdfunding [...]
View Post CFIRA, CfPA, crowd funding, crowdfunding, growth, investment crowdfunding, JOBS Act, platformEarlier 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 [...]
View Post comments, crowd funding, crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding, equity-based crowdfunding, Funding Launchpad, FundingLaunchpad.com, investment crowdfunding, public, SEC, Securities and Exchange CommisionPresident Obama is slated to sign the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act on Thursday, and the final, authoritative text of the bill has finally been made available to the public – you can take a look at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3606enr/pdf/BILLS-112hr3606enr.pdf. Note that Title III is the crowdfunding part. There have been a number of brief summaries [...]
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