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Are You Ready for Equity Based Crowdfunding?

Up and Running

Then, the unveiling of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed equity crowdfunding rules reveals a panacea for growing your business’s coffers. Donation and equity crowdfunding both appeal to the public’s desire to participate collectively in fulfilling others’ entrepreneurial visions. The investors. Set a Fundraising Goal.

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The SBA Needs To Get It’s Act Together On The PPP

VC Adventure

After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. The program sparked confusion from the start.

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Strategies for seeding marketplaces

The Equity Kicker

Aggregate inventory from other sites e.g. through affiliate programmes – scale comes quickly with this strategy, but adding enough value to become sticky can be challenging. Pay for inventory – I think this only works at the very earliest stages, and even then I’d be careful.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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Tips for Success via Business Crowdfunding

Hearpreneur

Find the experts and our affiliated partners. What does the future of equity crowdfunding look like? Platforms that by default become directories and aggregators of deals but lack efficient means to offering marketing to their issuers and exponentially grow their proprietary investor base will not survive.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. According to their research, overall returns on group-affiliated angel investments average to a 2.6X According to their research, overall returns on group-affiliated angel investments average to a 2.6X

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VentureGeeks Unveils Pre-Seed Investments in Five Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

The cost for the startups is 10% of their equity, which is taken by the fund GeekVentures I as payment. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. The fund is backed by David Moche, a Florida based real estate investor, and one of the co-founders of About.com.