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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Fighting Crowdfunding Failure
Crowdfunding is now a pretty established way of raising funds for your project, but 57% of projects (on Kickstarter, for example) fail. So, to up your odds, Seed&Spark, a film makers portal has provided “The Introvert’s Guide to Crowdfunding,” with … Continue reading
Posted in Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Venture Capital
Tagged accredited investors, advocates, convert, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, donors, DVD, emissary, empower, film, film finance, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, financing, FINRA, fraud, funding portal, honesty, IndieGoGo, introvert, investors, JOBS Act, kickstarter, plan, rewards, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Seed & Spark, video
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Crowdfunding Scam Alert
Watch out for Maksym and Denys Pashanin who have allegedly defrauded Kickstarter investors out of $40,000 with a pixel-art RPG video game called “Confederate Express” in the fall of 2013 that did not deliver, then started a new crowdfunding campaign … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, FINRA, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business
Tagged AirBnB, campaign, condo, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, delivery, donor, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA, IndieGoGo, JOBS Act, kickstarter, rewards, scam, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, squatter, video game
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Crowdfunding Suckers?
Sorry, you 9,522 “backers” of Oculus Rift who donated $2,437,429 in its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in September 2012. The Facebook acquisition of the company closed yesterday and you won’t get to share in the $2 billion in cash and stock, … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged accredited investor, backers, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, donation, donors, equity, Facebook, FINRA, IndieGoGo, investment, JOBS Act, kickstarter, Mark Zukerberg, Oculus Rift, OR, Palmer Luckey, pre-order, pre-sales, Reg D, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, T shirt, virtual reality
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NBA Star Starts Seed Investment Fund
When you think wearable technology is your first thought Carmelo Anthony? The NBA star is partnering with Stuart Goldfarb, the former executive vice president of NBC, to make seed capital investments in digital media, consumer tech and internet of things. … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film, FINRA, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Venture Capital
Tagged Alexis Ohanian, Andreessen Horowitz, app, Apple, Bertelsmann, Carmelo Anthony, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, Gary Vaynerchuk, Gokul Rajaram, Hullabalu, iPad, JOBS Act, Knicks, M7 Tech Partners, Melo, Michael Jordan, National Basketball Association, NBA, NBC, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Silicon Valley, Stuart Goldfarb, Suzanne Xie, V Angel, VC, venture capital
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Crowdfunding Drug Startups Still Iffy
The University of British Columbia study suggests that crowdfunding may be a way to provide seed capital to risky pharmaceutical and/or disease diagnostics startups. Reviewing 97 campaigns, it was determined that average donations ranged from $59 to $199 on seven … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, FINRA, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Venture Capital
Tagged accredited investor, cancer, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, cure, diagnostics, diseases, drug, drug discovery, drug investment, government funding, grant, JOBS Act, medical, medicine, National Institutes of Health, NIH, orphan drugs, patent, patient, pharma, pharmaceuticals, rare disease, risky, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, startups
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SEC Coy on Timing of Final Crowdfunding Rules
Yesterday, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance gave testimony to the House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises with respect to the SEC’s progress on finalizing the rules … Continue reading →