One State Is Leading In Investment Crowdfunding: Guess Which One
By David Drake Add North Carolina to the growing list of states working on intrastate investment crowdfunding legislation, especially as the equity crowdfunding proposal of the Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act (JOBS Act) won’t be brought up by the SEC for a three-month public commenting until the end of August at the earliest. This is [...]
Crowdfunding for equity solutions Part 5: Dealing with “held-of-record” issues
By David Drake David Drake of LDJ Capital continues today with his fifth article on his series regarding crowdfunding for equity solutions. Crowdfunding is exempt from ‘held of record‘ calculation in regards to registration requirements under 12g of SEC 1934 Act. But among the issues that could effectively kill the crowd funding provisions in the [...]
Crowdfunding for equity solutions series Part 2: Advertising and advice
By David Drake David Drake of LDJ Capital continues today with his second article of his series regarding crowdfunding for equity solutions. Advertising The Act already addresses, and prohibits compensation for several categories of activities, including the purchase of potential investor information. It also forbids directly soliciting investors or directing them to specific investment vehicles. [...]
Crowdfunding for equity solutions series part 1: Investor protection
By David Drake This is Part 1 of a 10-part series. CFIRA representatives have already met with the members of the Corporate Finance, Trading and Markets and Office of the Compliance Inspection Divisions of the SEC. Our interest was to hash out new rules and regulations governing crowdfunding. The process is ongoing, and this meeting [...]
Top 10 CrowdFunders for Equity USA
By David Drake Here are our 2013 preliminary top US crowd funders contestants pending the legalization of Crowd Funding for Equity under the JOBS Act. We will do a follow up article in a months time to show additional names and order of strength between the leading brands in North America. You will find that [...]
Italy: Embracing Crowdfunding
Congratulazioni! No, it’s not a lip-smacking pasta dish. It’s what Italians say when you purchase your first Lamborghini or probably your new Ferrari. It’s also what they said when they conveyed their plaudits about The Soho Loft’s successful two-day Crowdfunding Event in Oasi Dei Celti, Lake Como, Italy held January 24 and 25, 2013. Entrepreneurs, [...]
JOBS Act: Interview with Arnon Shafir, CEO and founder of give2gether
By David Drake, LDJ Capital and The Soho Loft To probe the legal intricacies revolving around the JOBS Act and how these new laws might impact the crowdfunding scene in the months leading to and right after the much-anticipated full implementation of crowdfunding for equity, David Drake spoke with Arnon Shafir, CEO and founder of [...]
JOBS Act: Interview with Candace Klein, CEO of SoMoLend
By David Drake, LDJ Capital and The Soho Loft To probe the legal intricacies revolving around the JOBS Act and how these new laws might impact the crowdfunding scene in the next months leading to and right after the much-anticipated full implementation of crowdfunding for equity, David Drake spoke with Candace Klein, CEO of SoMoLend. Drake: Candace, [...]
JOBS Act – Crowdfunding
The JOBS Act bill or the “Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act” includes amendments that allow small companies and start-ups to raise money outside the typical venture capital funding and the bill also authorized ordinary people to be investors through crowd funding. But exactly how much can an individual invest in a start-up and what restrictions [...]
Top 5 players – “Rich Man’s Crowdfunding” Strategy
Crowdfunding Technology contributes to The New “Rich Man’s Crowdfunding” Strategy – Broker dealers, angel networks, seed funds, private equity funds and asset managers are becoming increasingly engaged. Crowdfunders call it the “Rich Man’s Crowd Funding”. Private Equity, funds, angel networks and broker dealers are embracing the technology underpinning crowdfunding with its standards of deal [...]
