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Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The newest equity model was passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability in the USA, waiting for the rules to be defined by the SEC: Startup equity crowd funding. A good example site, and one of the earliest in this category, is IndieGoGo. Debt-based crowd funding.

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

despite having been passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability, waiting for the rules to be finalized by the SEC. In this model, often called micro-financing or peer-to-peer lending (P2P), people contribute with the intent to create a pool for all to borrow against.