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The government shutdown is thankfully behind us, but this needless crisis certainly damaged the economy -- particularly small businesses and entrepreneurs who lost sales and access to programs to help them expand. It’s now time to move our economy forward and focus on the key economic question before us: How do we create strong middle-class jobs [...]
While much of the startup community is fretting over a new rule requiring that accredited investors have their status verified by a third party, AngelList CEO Naval Ravikant says that what is more important to him is that his investors are "sophisticated." Ravikant says he is focused on making sure investors are informed and [...]
An 80-year-old ban that has prevented private companies from publicly advertising their efforts to raise funds will lift on Monday. If you are an entrepreneur struggling to find investors, that may be very good news. But hold the champagne for now. What this historic change in general solicitation law really means is that [...]
U.S. regulators are tied up in knots trying to figure out how to write laws for equity crowdfunding to prevent fraud. Perhaps they ought to take a page from the Dutch. In the Netherlands, equity crowdfunding from unaccredited investors has been legal for the better part of three years. “The Netherlands are [...]
The growing pool of crowdfunding platforms is getting a Shark. Kevin Harrington, one of the original investor “sharks” on the ABC reality television show Shark Tank, is launching a crowdfunding platform targeting the same niche as his As Seen on TV infomercial empire does. The platform, which is expected to launch in the [...]
Crowdfunding is global and growing. Quickly. There are approximately 600 crowdfunding platforms, which help users raise small sums of money from a group, throughout the world, according to Los Angeles-based crowdfunding and crowdsourcing research firm Massolution. By the end of 2013, crowdfunding is expected to reach $5.1 billion in funds raised, Massolution reports. [...]
If you're launching a crowdfunding campaign solely to raise money for your business, you're missing the point, says Danae Ringelmann, co-founder of the popular San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. "There is not a better indication of the market than people actually voting with their dollars," says Ringelmann. "It is so much stronger than [...]
Any small-business owner looking to start or grow will tell you that access to capital is the first thing they think about in the morning and the last thing on their mind before bed. Free-flowing capital allows small businesses to invest in the machinery, supplies, office space and people they need to turn a [...]
You have a powerful idea for the next big thing, but before you sell it to anyone, you have to get it all down on paper. It’s time to make a business plan. How do you know if you’re headed in the right direction? Washington State University created an infographic [...]
Years ago, I was hired by a group of entrepreneurs to write a business plan I will never forget. That is because we made a fatal business planning mistake that caused the venture to lose it chance at VC funding. The founders had a personal connection to one of the VC partners and they seemed [...]
Nine out of 10 of all the mission statements I read in business plans are wastes of time, paper or digital space. The rare one is a useful view into strategy or a helpful reminder about long-term goals. I read hundreds of business plans every year. I get to do so since [...]
For Facebook and Twitter, the competition is heating up again. Facebook’s announcement yesterday that Instagram users can now create shareable, 15-second videos has spurred a healthy debate over whether this new capability will make Twitter's Vine obsolete. Vine also allows us to create short videos, but in the form of six-second looping clips. While video for Instagram seems [...]
