Breaking news: today the SEC issued final rules allowing investment-based crowdfunding to finally take place legally in the U.S. In a surprising twist, however, the SEC also published a new and binding interpretation of existing areas of securities law which renders more traditional angel funding inoperative — effectively making crowdfunding not only legal but mandatory [...]
View PostIf you are in the greater Denver area and would like to become an instant expert on crowdfunidng (all types), circle May 3 on your calendar right now. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Back? Great! So on May 3rd, come down to see Dave Milliken and Shane Fleenor, two of the founding team of Funding Launchpad, [...]
View PostWe are back! After spending most of 2012 focusing on investment-based crowdfunding, we have decided that the best way to help small businesses raise money right now is through rewards-based crowdfunding. And since helping small businesses raise money is what we live for, we have now added rewards-based functionality to Funding Launchpad, and are now [...]
View Post main street, new campaigns, rewards crowdfundingIt has been a while, but we are dusting off the Funding Launchpad Blog. We expect the coming months to bring significant developments to the world of crowd funding, and, not surprisingly, to our business here at Funding Launchpad. With President Obama’s reelection, it seems clear that the crowd funding provisions laid out in the [...]
View PostEarlier 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, scrapbookingInvestment crowdfunding platform Funding Launchpad is honored to announce it has been named an [i4c] Campaign finalist! According to its website: “The [i4c] Campaign builds better cities by investing in and rallying communities behind impact entrepreneurs.” Impact entrepreneurs improve communities through a business model that solves social or environmental problems. The [i4c] Campaign invests in early-stage impact companies [...]
View Post Colorado, crowd funding, crowdfunding, DCPA, Denver, i4c, i4c campaign, impact, investment crowdfunding, Jim Deters, sustainableAs 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 CommisionYesterday W3W3.com released two interviews with Funding Launchpad leaders, CEO Steve Reaser and Adviser Brian Tsushiya, about investment crowdfunding. The interview with Steve Reaser covers the key benefits of the JOBS Act (H. R. 3606): The ability to tell lots of people about your offering The ability to raise money from non-accredited investors While enactment [...]
View Post Brian Tsushiya, crowdfunding, Crowdfunding Alliance, Funding Launchpad, investment crowdfunding, Steve Reaser, Vim Funding, w3w3, w3w3.comLast night Brian Tsushiya represented Vim Funding (soon to be re-branded as Funding Launchpad) at one of the largest monthly front range meetups: Boulder Denver New Tech (BDNT). The crowd of about 350 was engaged in the presentation that covered fundraising options available to startups and small businesses today, the history of crowdfunding, the status [...]
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