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"In recent years, growth equity has become its own asset class and is actively followed and monitored by investors. Growth equity enjoys the benefits of investing slightly later down the road in the growth of technology companies, thereby reducing the risk of future financing rounds, while at the same time avoiding the seniority of leverage utilized by private equity firms. The risk-adjusted results of this asset class indicate that better returns can be generated with lower associated risk."

Equity crowdfunding could be the great equalizer for entrepreneurs and small businesses by allowing them to bypass the banks who will not lend to them, the venture capitalists who want to take advantage of them and wealthy Wall Street types who ignore them. But the law itself and the SEC rules just released will make the law unworkable for some small businesses because of the costs involved, and the restrictions on marketing imposed. Despite that, equity crowdfunding will work for some, and if the $1 million cap is raised someday, it will work for many more. In the meantime, there is always equity crowdfunding's prettier sister out there, the Regulation A+ Mini-IPO.

"Here's a brief summary of the report: 56% of businesses fail to return capital; 44% generate positive returns that are larger than the initial investment; 9% actually generate returns in excess of ten times the capital invested."

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