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More Cash for Entrepreneurs, Crowdfunding, and Indiegogo

David Teten

It allows small businesses to raise $1 million, from a limit of 10% of income or $10,000 from individual investors, without registering their companies with the SEC. For small businesses, registering a company is timely and costly in management fees, accounting fees, and legal fees.

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Debt Crowdfunding: The Real Potential When It Comes to Main Street USA

Up and Running

For the first time in 80 years, startups and small businesses can raise up to $1M from their friends, family, and customers via online websites registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. See Also: 35 Great Ways to Fund A Small Business. Debt crowdfunding and small businesses.

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What Does It Take to Start a Comic Book Business? With Brian Wyrick of Robot Paper

Up and Running

I joke that that was my first experience in small business. I wouldn’t exchange it for the money we lost, but it was trial by fire. I started using LivePlan to map out the project and then we launched a Kickstarter campaign in March of 2013. We commissioned a cover from him and created a company called Robot Paper.

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Is crowdfunding legal?

Startup Company Lawyer

” Title III enables “crowdfunding,” or the ability to sell securities in small amounts to a large number of investors. Whether or not the crowdfunding provisions will have a significant impact on small business fundraising is yet to be determined. Crowdfunding Prior to the JOBS Act.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

I started a couple of weeks ago with the first part of a post on small business trends for 2014; today I have 5 more trends that I’d like to share. Having said that, these may inform how you approach your business in the next 12 months; here ya go: 1. Secondly, trends are trends and nothing more. Outsourcing social media.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Whether you are a big brand, a small business, or a non-profit – the Brandsforce proprietary platform helps you create and execute an advocacy program that is right for you. Our platform extracts the real value from social networks, empowering online businesses to attract, engage and understand users like never before.

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How To Grow A Company Without Venture Capital

YoungUpstarts

Sure, VC cash can boost your business to new heights, but it also reduces your equity in the company, forces you to focus on company valuation, and provides a false sense of financial security. The Pebble watch was one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns in history. Get a loan. Go it alone.