The good news first: crowdfunding continues to grow, especially equity crowdfunding is catching up.
In a sentence: This platform blends donation-based and investment crowdfunding models, as well as encouraging online and off-line crowdfunding and collaboration.
Another potential avenue for crowdfunding platforms is equity crowdfunding, allowing startups to raise money by selling securities online to pools of small investors.
The post advertised for a crowdfunding expert to help launch and manage a new campus-wide crowdfunding platform under development and guide users to execute successful fundraising campaigns.
My point is this: your biggest assets in your crowdfunding campaign are your contributors.
Probably, it would have enough impact when we were looking for investors on wiseed crowdfunding.
When an entrepreneur is raising money with crowdfunding, social buzz tends to correlate with money raised.
While Asia has a handful of donation-based crowdfunding platforms which don't need any regulations, it still needs to catch up with its neighbors in terms of equity crowdfunding regulations.
So, aside from credit-card processing fees, crowdfunding platforms can be extremely low-cost businesses to run.
Moreover, if we want to understand the impact of crowdfunding it is not enough just to look at the figures.
Today was a monumental day because the clock started ticking, but equity crowdfunding still has a long road ahead.
There are more (though a limited amount of) examples to be found that indicate M&A movements in the crowdfunding industry.
I firmly believe that the power of crowdsourcing and equity-crowdfunding has only scratched the surface as a democratic means to discovering our nation's best and brightest.
The platforms follow the trend, and some of them have started offering or will soon offer an option of independent crowdfunding.
You just need a day or two of homepage love on the crowdfunding platform of your choice to get that early momentum.
It's presumable that today's new crowdfunding model would be of immediate concern to the SEC — the model is essentially asking the SEC to both allow and protect many unsophisticated investors.
The success of small innovative businesses in the UK and the US, which have used crowdfunding to raise billions for individual and small business borrowers, has not gone unnoticed.
