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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

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3606 - the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) bill, which includes provisions that for the first time legalize investment-based crowdfunding. Liberatingly, crowdfunding will allow smaller companies to simply bypass and disintermediate these broken financial sources altogether. This week, the President is expected to pass H.R.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

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But while it was a little less understood outside the payments world, their acquisition of TxVia theoretically gives them some of the plumbing they’d need to create a store of value or couple a Google mobile payments product to existing financial accounts. Dwolla is also considering to take its network overseas, still riding ACH.

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