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4 things to know about crowdfunding versus raising capital

The Next Web

While the latter is not yet legal in the United States, the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April 2012, mandates that the SEC makes it legal by January 1st of 2013. Once an entrepreneur starts a crowdfunding campaign, either with rewards or equity, they spend the next 30-90 days pitching their product to everyone they can think of.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

1/ Social Network Interference. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. Are we just at the beginning of massive, widespread hacking and disinformation campaigns, even against corporations and individuals? My goodness, where to begin.

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12 Google Analytics Custom Reports to Help You Grow Faster

ConversionXL

Note how you can “drill down” from “Source / Medium” In practice, that means you can click on the specific source / medium to see the medium and campaign information… Here’s what the report will look like… Note that you see acquisition, behavioral and result metrics here. PPC Custom Reports.

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8 Growth Hacking Strategies to Improve your Digital Presence

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Tip: You can also invest in top social listening tools like Talkwalker, Mention, Brand24, Brand Moran, and the likes to help you mine key business insights from social media. Sometimes businesses don’t see the results with paid advertising because they lack the expertise to manage online advertising campaigns. Final Thoughts.

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

Both Sides of the Table

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it. Following several completed advertising campaigns, Ad.ly They also avoid Reg D.

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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

VC Cafe

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. from undisclosed investors as it emerged from this SEC filing. calcalist ]. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2

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

Professor VC

These investments would be exempt from registration under the 1933 SEC Act. There is a reason the SEC exists. I cant remember if the SEC was one of the government agencies that Rick Perry wants to get rid of (but neither can he ), but it seems like this is the exact type of investor that the SEC was set up to protect.

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