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Crowdfunding for Small Business Is Still an Unclear Path - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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CircleUp SoMoLend crowdfunding small business

shared by ccfath on 08 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • That big issue caused Mr. Caldbeck to leave his job to start CircleUp, a company that aims to connect up-and-coming consumer products companies with investors.
  • crowdfunding is a way for capital-starved entrepreneurs to receive financing that neither big investors nor lenders are willing or able to provide. To others, it represents a potential minefield that could help bad businesses get off the ground before they eventually fail, and in some cases could even ensnare unsophisticated investors in outright fraud.
  • SoMoLend, which lends money to small, Main Street-type businesses that typically wouldn’t interest private investors.
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2013: What's In Store For Crowdfunding And Angel Investors - Forbes - 0 views

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GroundUp Crowdfunding Regulation SEC

shared by Janine Shea on 02 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • evolve into best practices and common leadership – this will accelerate the crowdfunding phenomena towards the $1 trillion market we predict it to be by 2020.  The investor democratization and customer communication involvement crowdfunding allows will trigger widespread corporate implementation by Q4, 2013.
  • mainly angels at this point – are in for the long haul
  • and not necessarily for a return on capital.
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  • Symbid confirms that their investors want to live vicariously through the efforts and innovation of the issuers.  Their Angel investors frequently roll over their investments.  The investor communication tool allows for investors to easily be updated and even vote on board members and larger decisions with the founders.
  • “In Europe, there will be increasing fusion between crowdfunding and angel networks. The notion that they are two entirely distinct concepts is an artificial one, and we will begin seeing more and more investors using both online (crowdfunding platforms) and offline (angel networks) methods to make their investments.”
  • However, US Angel networks will embrace crowdfunding more when
  • prediction
  • crowdfunding for equity becomes legal in the US in 2014.
  • er dealers that will emerge in 2013 as crowdfunding for equity is delayed. 
  • The exception will be the new brok
  • Leading crowdfunding for equity players like Chance Barnett at CrowdFunder and Candace Klein at SoMoLend are getting licensed as brokers and will start engaging leading angel networks in the US.  SecondMarket’s partnership with Angelist is a recent direction how the landscape is changing.  Angelist had $12 million plus in transaction by angels into start ups in December 2012.
  • The new angel network ‘upstart’ FundingPost
  • While content is king, distribution is king kong
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