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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

You know, because sometimes startups just simply don't make it [shrug] but you gotta watch out for those financial hucksters who are looking to take your money and run off to kick it in Fiji. tanning salon/seed fund combo. It's a beautiful thing we're all supposed to get really psyched about--Main Street helping Main Street.

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the world without altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million The Coming Venture Capital Boom → The World Without Altgate Posted on January 1, 2009 by fnazeeri No, this blog is not going anywhere. 

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$30,191

This is going to be BIG.

Fiji anyone? You need a good sense of your tolerances and where your breaking points are, but as long as you work within those, the experience of pushing towards a passionate goal is going to trump many of the risks you previously thought you wouldn’t be able to handle. It was a great experience for me and I’m glad I went through it.

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