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Today For The First Time in 80 Years, You Can Ask Total Strangers to Invest in Your Business

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As of September 23, 2013, American businesses can advertise that they are raising money, and it won’t be considered a crime. The Securities and Exchange Commission is lifting an 80-year-ban on the practice , freeing up privately-owned businesses across the country to openly seek investment funding.

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Update on the JOBS Act and Raising Equity from Crowdfunding

Growthink Blog

The JOBS Act makes equity-based crowdfunding much easier The JOBS Act makes it possible to raise funds from investors and donors through certain crowdfunding sites in exchange for equity in your company. This was supposed to start on January 1st 2013. more on this below). So, what's the latest? But this never happened.

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The Skinny on Equity-Based Crowdfunding Opportunities

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The JOBS Act makes equity-based crowdfunding much easier The JOBS Act makes it possible to raise funding from investors and donors through certain crowdfunding sites in exchange for equity in your company. Orders written on them were referred to as "the skinny."] Today, there are nearly 9,000 of them.

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