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- FundingLaunchPad.com, March 27, 2013
- Investment Crowdfunding Legislation: The Beginning
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- ItalyChronicles.com, March 27, 2013
- Equity Crowdfunding – Italy On Track to Lead the US
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- TheGlobeandMail.com, March 27, 2013
- Economic potential of crowdfunding is underrated
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- WBJournal.com, February 4, 2013
- Startups Look To Crowd Funding For Needed Capital
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- Telegraph.Co.UK, February 4, 2013
- FSA gives green light to ‘crowdfunding’
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- Blogs.ArtInfo.Com, February 1, 2013
- Louvre Buys $3.5-Million Ivory Statues Thanks to Crowd-Funding Campaign
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- Projects2Crowdfund.com, February 1, 2013
- Is Crowd Funding Fraud? A Pyramid Scam?
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- TUAW.com, January 31, 2013
- Crowdfunding collective TinyLightbulbs shows off its iOS products
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- TechRadar.com, January 01, 2013
- Crowdfunding: what it is and why it’s important
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- Dish.AndrewSullivan.com, January 21, 2013
- The Economic Case For Immigration Reform, Ctd
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- TechCrunch.com, January 01, 2013
- 2012: The Year Crowdfunding Was Kickstarted Into The Mainstream
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- Mashable.com, December 22, 2012
- Soul Singer’s Blues Receive New Life on Kickstarter
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- Blog.IndieGoGo.Com, December 21, 2012
- Indiegogo’s Top 12 Campaigns of 2012
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- DailyCrowdSource.com, December 18, 2012
- Crowdfunding’s Not About You
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- Search Engine Land, December 15, 2012
- Using Email and Social for Crowdfunding Success
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- Technorati.com, December 15, 2012
- Crowdfunding Novels Possible Through Authr.com
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- 11Alive.com, December 14, 2012
- Crowdfunding site helps Children’s Healthcare
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- Cleveland.com, December 14, 2012
- SoMoLend and GATE Global Impact Launch Strategic Lending Alliance
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- SeattlePi, December 13, 2012
- Quickboats Announces Indiegogo Crowd Funding Success
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- Comics Alliance, December 13, 2012
- Crowd Funding Watch: Brilliant Western Webcomic ‘Next Town Over’ Rustles Up Print Edition
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- TechCrunch.com, December 12, 2012
- Crowdtilt Launches Crowdfunding API To Give Developers Easy Access To Group Payments & Social Fundraising
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- The Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2012
- Stalled Crowdfunding Rules Leave Business Plans on Ice
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- Comics Alliance, December 12, 2012
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
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- Forbes, December 11, 2012
- Crowdfunding Predictions for 2013
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- Forbes, December 11, 2012
- Crowdfunding Predictions for 2013
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- The Washington Times, November 26, 2012 By Dave Boyer
- Obama to appoint Walter as SEC chairwoman
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- November 26, 2012
- Obama’s 10 Steps with SEC & FINRA to Legalize US Equity Crowd Funding
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- November 23, 2012
- Summary and Highlights: 2012 SEC Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation Program
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- PRWeb, October 25, 2012
- SoMoLend and GATE Global Impact Launch Strategic Lending Alliance
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- ZDNet, October 25, 2012 By Tom Foremski
- NASDAQ plans to unify private shares markets for startups
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- SBWire, October 23, 2012
- Invitation for a Free Crowdfunding IPO Analysis
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- SeedInvest, October 19, 2012
- SeedInvest Back in the Big Apple
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- zawya, October 17, 2012 By Alice Johnson
- Crowd-investing: Mideast tries new ways to raise business finance in a post-financial crash world
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- Forbes, by Bryan Sullivan and Stephen Ma
- Crowdfunding: Potential Legal Disaster Waiting To Happen
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- UVM, October 17, 2012 By Jon Reidel
- New Crowd-Based Donating Platform Gives Students Access to Alumni Expertise, Funding
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- BBC, October 19, 2012
- Kickstarted video game project Haunts gets mothballed
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- Forbes, October 18, 2012 By Erik Kain
- Fully Funded Kickstarter Game Goes Belly Up – ‘Haunts: The Manse Macabre’ Is Out Of Money As Programmers Call It Quits
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- WSJ , October 16, 2012 By Lizette Chapman
- Pint-Sized Robot ‘Romo’ Rolls From Kickstarter to VCs to Neiman Marcus
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- Marketwire, October 11, 2012
- Confronting the Youth Employment Crisis With a Global Opportunity Marketplace
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- Editorial, October 9, 2012
- How Crowdfunding is Disrupting the “Old Boys” Network
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- October 9, 2012, By David Drake
- The JOBS Act: A Paradigm Shift the World Has Never Seen
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- October 9, 2012, By David Drake
- How Crowdfunding is Disrupting the “Old Boys” Network
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- October 8, 2012 by David Drake
- Crowd Funding for Equity Solutions Series #8: Regulation A Versus Regulation D
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- October 8, 2012 by David Drake
- Crowd Funding: A Paradigm Shift
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- October 8, 2012 by Taner Kilicarslan
- Europe’s Road to Entrepreneurship and SME Growth
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- October 8, 2012 by David Drake
- Crowdfunding – Disrupting the Old Boys Network
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- October 8, 2012, Maria Markitanova, VentureVillage
- ‘The future is f!@*ing bright! Time to buy sunglasses!’ Dave McClure on what makes Russia so sexy to Silicon Valley
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- Sunday, 07 Oct 2012, By Forrest Jones
- Leuthold: US Has Lost a Generation of Stock Investors
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- Chronicle, October 1, 2012 By Marc Parry
- 5 Ways That edX Could Change Education
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- October, By Helen Avery
- Alternatives: Crowdfunding fills small-business loan void
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- CaymanianFinancialReview, October 2012 By Kim Wales
- Alternative Investment: Crowd funding
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- June 01, 2012, David Matteson
- Get your hedge funds here, don’t delay!
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- MoneyNews, October 07, 2012, By Forrest Jones
- Leuthold: US Has Lost a Generation of Stock Investors
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- ft.com, October 8, 2012, By Tracy Alloway and Arash Massoudi in New York
- IPO pioneer proposes exchange for small-caps
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- TechCrunch, October 07, 2012
- The Story Of Lockitron: Crowdfunding Without Kickstarter
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- Pillsbury, October 02, 2012, By ouis A. Bevilacqua
- FINRA Announces Effective Date for New Rule 5123 – Required Filings of Private Placements of Securities
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- SBWire, Octber 02, 2012, By Cindy Tincher
- Industry Leader Partnership Brings Crowdfund Investment to the Self-Directed IRA Market
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- TechCrunch, By Andy Rachleff
- Why Angel Investors Don’t Make Money … And Advice For People Who Are Going To Become Angels Anyway
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- Cardinal Points, September 27, 2012, By Brian Molongoski
- ‘Crowdfunding’ experts speak at PSUC
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- CNNMoney, September 27, 2012, By Laurie Segall
- Kickstarter clamps down on nonexistent products
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- NYSEMagazine, By Jeanne Cotroneo Darrow
- NYSE Euronext supports policies to boost capital access for emerging growth companies.
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- SecGov, September 26, 2012
- File No. JOBS Act Title IV From: Thomas D ORourke Affiliation: Pres, Alpine Ventures
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- September 26, 2012, By Greg Lamm, Staff Writer
- Crowdfunding: sorting out the regulatory rules
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- REUTERS, September 25, 2012, By Sam Forgione
- US institutions choose non-stock assets in volatile market
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- September 21, 2012, By Karen Blumenthal
- On Crowdfunding and Other Threats
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- Forbes, September 21, 2012
- The JOBS Act: What Startups and Small Businesses Need to Know [Infographic]
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- By Ken Hoover
- Crowdfunding Takes Off As Way To Fund Startups
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- September 21, 2012
- Many Small Businesses Never Heard of Crowdfunding
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- UPSTART Business Journal, September 21, 2012, By Kent Bernhard, Jr , Money & Finance Editor
- Kickstarter tightens creator requirements
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- IPO Village, September 19, 2012
- SEC Chair & Former Chair Challenged To Cage Match For Right To Determine Who Makes Crowdfunding Rules
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- ComplaincEX, September 18, 2012, By The Compliance Exchange
- SEC Gives Up On Web Schedules For Dodd-Frank Rules
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- ComplaincEX, September 18, 2012, By Beth Connolly
- Are Mary Schapiro’s Days Numbered?
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- Reuters, September 17, 2012, By Suzanne Barlyn
- New state regulatory head is no small-business outsider
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- CrowdCheck, September 14, 2012, Sara
- What is an “Offer” of Securities and why should you care?
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- VCExperts, By William Carleton
- The JOBS Act: To Generally Solicit, Or Not To Generally Solicit?
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- Forbes, September 11, 2012
- Why I left Private Equity…And Started A Crowdfunding Site
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- The Washington Post, September 7, 2012, By Mohana Ravindranath
- Quickly adapting to crowdfunding laws
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- DealBook, September 5, 2012, By Jesse Eisinger
- Pruning Hedge Fund Regulation Without Cultivating Better Rules
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- September 5, 2012, By Erick Schonfeld
- The SEC’s Crowdfunding Conundrum
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- PRNewswire, September 4, 2012
- The Crowd Goes Wild: First Annual Film Crowdfunding Awards Announced
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- The CrowdFund Lawyer, August 31, 2012, By thecrowdfundlawyer Why Crowdfunding is Good for America
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- mbbp.com, August 2012, By Mark J. Tarallo
- New IPO On-Ramp provisions provide emerging growth companies with opportunities to go public sooner
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- PRNewswire, August 29, 2012, By Crowdfunder
- SEC paves way for GATE Global Impact’s and Crowdfunder’s crowdfunding by relaxing general solicitation rule for accredited investors
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- PRNewswire, August 28, 2012
- Mobile Scanner Manufacturer’s Registered SCOR Offering Open to Consumer Investors in Five States
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- FINalternatives, Auggust 28, 2012
- Goldstein Satirizes SEC Delay On Advertising Rules
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- The New York Times, August 27,2012, By Jenna Wortham
- Founders of Diaspora, Intended as the Anti-Facebook, Move On
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- DealBook, August 24, 2012, By Vinod Sreeharsha
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- Augst 24, 2012, By Kylie MacLellan
- Crowdfunding websites not for novice investors says UK regulator
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- Techdirt, August 24, 2012, By Mike Masnick
- And… The Bureaucrats Begin Spreading FUD About Crowdfunding
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- The D & O Diary, August 24, 2012, By Kevin LaCroix
- Concerns About Crowdfunding
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- Entrepreneur Media Inc., August 23, 2012, By Brian Patrick
- Move Over, Kickstarter: Microfunding Sites Target Local Communities
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- PandoDaily, August 22, 2012, By Michael Carney
- The Crowdfunding Ecosystem Needs Contraction and Organization
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- Thomson Reuters News and Insight, August 22,2012, By Lyndon M. Tretter
- Crowdfunding: Small-business incubator or securities fraud accelerator?
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- The New York Times, July 13, 2012, By Trip Gabriel
- A Fuller Picture in the Small-Business Tug of War
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- FundingPost By Lisa Weston
- Angel Investors: Understanding the Need for More Female Investors
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- MarketWatch, July 12, 2012
- OPIC Selects GATE Global Impact as Originator in Enterprise Development Network
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- TechCrunch, July 16, 2012 By Mike Butcher
- Allegation: Kickstarter Is Still Hiding Data About Failed Projects
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- Triple Pundit, July 16, 2012 By Kara Scharwath
- Emerging “Next Generation” Crowdfunding Platform Roundup
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- Arabia Business, Jul 16, 2012 By Claire Valdini
- UAE crowd funding site eyes investment flurry
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- BDO USA, Jul 10, 2012 by Ann Meyer
- JOBS Act to benefit IPO market, but beware of scandals: BDO Survey
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- US Workshop – Rome July 12-13
- EU-US Workshop on Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
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- The Startup America Partnership
- The Promise of Crowdfunding for Social Enterprise
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- Business New Europe – July 10, 2012
- Crowdsourcing helps victims of Russian flash flood
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- CrowdCheck, 06 July 2012 by Brain
- What has to happen beofre Crowdfunding goes legal (or how I quitworrying and learned to love the administrative prcess)
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- Forbes, July 5, 2012, By Brian Hamilton
- The JOBS Act: IPO on-ramp or public company off-ramp?
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- Virtual-Strategy Magazine (VSM), July 05, 2012
- Crowdfunding Tax Break Petition – Initial Crowd Offering, Inc. Urges Congress to Provide Tax Incentives to Help Launch the CROWDFUND Act
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- PandoDaily, June 29, 2012 by Trevor Gilbert
- JOBS Act Tangled in Red Tape, Coming 2014 at the Earliest
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- The White House Blog, June 28, 2012 by Doug Rand
- The Promise of Crowdfunding for Social Enterprise
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- Econsaltancy, June 15, 2012, By Luke Richards
- Crowdfunding in numbers: stats
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- CFR, June 5, 2012 by Steven J. Markovich
- U.S. Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
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- wac6, June 4, 2012 by William Carleton
- SecondMarket weighs in on “verification” of accredited investor status
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- Lexology, May 30, 2012, Edward Stevenson and Irwin Kishner
- JOBS Act creates “IPO On-Ramp” for emerging growth companies
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- Inc. magazine, May 29, 2012 by Issie Lapowsky
- Does the JOBS Act Help You?
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- May 15, 2012, By Timothy J. Keating, Guest Columnis
- JOBS Act Will Drive Businesses to IPO On-Ramp: Opinion
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- April 23, 2012, By David Westenberg
- The JOBS Act—The “IPO On-Ramp” Makes IPOs Easier
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- Brentwood News, April 20, 2012
- “Might ?Crowd-Funding? Be in Your Future?”
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- April 9, 2012, By Emily Mendell
- What the IPO On-Ramp Means for You
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- Business Wire, April 05, 2012
- “Crowdfunding Industry Forms Leadership Group to Pursue Development of Industry Self-Regulatory Organization”
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- BlogTalkRadio, March 24, 2012 by Jim White
- “The Job Act!”
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- MarketWire, March 23, 2012
- “Crowdfunding Industry to Unite Behind Regulatory Organization to Protect Investors”
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- FundingLaunchpad, March 14, 2012 by Dave
- “Recap: The SoHo Loft’s Investment Crowdfunding Conference”
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- HULIQ, March 14, 2012 by Diane Dolinsky-Pickar
- “U.S. Entrepreneurs Need Crowdfunding To Create 1.5 Million Jobs”
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- March 12, 2012, By Catherine Clifford
- Top ‘Treps Urge Senate to Pass IPO On-Ramp Bill
