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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

But it was under the SEC's watch that countless, massive scams were committed - Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, HealthSouth, and Bernie Madoff duped investors out of billions of dollars in the last decade alone. An investor in a crowdfunding campaign is likely to lose much less than an investor in Enron did. Blog Archive.

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Tips for Success via Business Crowdfunding

Hearpreneur

We generate fully-surveyed and verified Investor and Reservation leads, for both accredited and non-accredited investors. Even long-established platforms are realizing the limitations of their brands and messaging as they seek to broaden their investor base. What does the future of equity crowdfunding look like?

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Democratization of Angel Investing

Professor VC

I had a conversation recently with Alex Mittal, Co-founder and CEO of FundersClub (FC) and decided to revisit my blog post from last fall that was skeptical of crowdfunding for angel investments. Some of the current services act on the investment bank model and either facilitate transactions between investors and companies (i.e.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.)

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Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

They may or may not be accredited investors, and they don’t invest regularly or often. <$50K in aggregate. Updated (05/16/2011 at 11:05 AM) : Added a row to the table/cheat sheet to indicated whether or not the investor is typically an Accredited Investor (better explanation on Yokum’s blog ), or not.