Earlier this month, Dave had the opportunity to lead a Webinar about how individuals can use their self-directed IRAs and 401Ks to participate in Investment Crowdfunding projects. As we previously told, he joined Gordon Nutall, CEO of Couragent, Inc., and Clay Malcolm, Business Development Manager at New Direction IRA. The webinar offers an overview of [...]
View Post 401k, Clay Malcom, couragent, crowd investing, crowdfunding, Funding Launchpad, Gordon Nuttall, investment crowdfunding, IRA, JOBS Act, New Direction IRA, rewards based crowd funding, startup, webinarIn January, Funding Launchpad is going to power a rewards-based crowdfunding project for Victory MMA Gym in Killeen, Texas. Killeen is the home of Fort Hood, which is the largest Army base in the United States. In the 2010 census, Fort Hood had a total population of 53,416! Victory MMA Gym is a mixed martial [...]
View Post 2013, crowdfunding, crowdfunding feature, fort hood, Funding Launchpad, january, small business, startup, texas, victory mma gym, wounded warrior projectOn 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, videoCouragent, Inc. will be conducting a webinar on Wednesday, December 5 at 12:00 PM (Noon) MST. We would like to encourage to join in and learn more about Couragent, an investment crowdfunding pioneer. Couragent is a Fort Collins, Colorado company “that delivers patented solutions to common problems with electronic equipment that is simple to use [...]
View Post ceo, client, colorado business, crowd investing, december 2012, patents, startup, strategy, webinarOn the one year anniversary of launching the Startup America initiative, President Obama today, in an official White House press release, formally stated his support for investment crowdfunding. “The President is calling for a national framework that allows entrepreneurs and small businesses to raise capital through ‘crowdfunding’.” Today was not the first time the President [...]
View Post crowdfunding, investment crowdfunding, Obama, politics, small business, startupIt seems like everyone is a proponent of investment crowdfunding these days. Even the agency responsible for enforcing American federal securities laws, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seems to be recommending the adoption of crowdfunding principles. Earlier this month an Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies, a group formed by the SEC, [...]
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