Investment Crowdfunding Archives

GroundFloor’s self funding campaign.

Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by GroundFloor.com. Opinions expressed herein are my own. I am not an investor in GroundFloor. Getting in on the Ground Floor: investing directly in the platform. There’s a certain honor in business to “eating your own dogfood”; actually using the product or ...

SEC’s new JOBS Act Title III Crowdfunding Ru

9 years ago in Articles, Investment Crowdfunding

Today the SEC voted in favor of the final JOBS Act TitleIII Crowdfunding rules. The new JOBS Act TitleIII Crowdfunding rules will finally allow individuals to invest in startups online by purchasing equity securities in crowdfunded companies via SEC registered crowdfunding portals. The ...

SEC to finalize TitleIII Crowdfunding rules Octobe

9 years ago in Articles, Crowdfunding Industry Info, Investment Crowdfunding

Update! The rules were announced and the vote passed. See our summary and analysis here: ...

The Current State of Reg A+ Investment Crowdfundin

9 years ago in Articles, Investment Crowdfunding

With all the excitement around the big SEC Title III Equity Crowdfunding announcement on Oct 30th it’s easy to overlook the fact that the SEC already enabled a potentially much more powerful set of rules earlier this year, which we are only now starting to see the effects of. ...

CrowdFundX Equity Crowdfunding Marketing Agency In

9 years ago in Interview, Investment Crowdfunding, Professionals

CrowdExpert.com Interview with Darren Marble, CEO of CrowdfundX, a Los Angeles based full service equity crowdfunding marketing agency that’s leading the space in promoting Reg A+ investment crowdfunding campaigns. Recently we’ve been getting deep into the subject of Crowdfunding ...

CrowdExpert Guide to Federal Private Offering Exem

10 years ago in Crowdfunding Industry Info, How-To Guides, Investment Crowdfunding

Private Offerings [This article has been updated on 4/5/15 to reflect the new SEC rules on JOBS Act TitleIV offerings, aka “Regulation A+”] A private offering or private placement is the sale of securities by a company to a small number of select investors. There are several ...

Deep Dive: Investment Crowdfunding with “Reg

10 years ago in How-To Guides, Investment Crowdfunding

By James Johnson & David Pricco Introduction Somewhere between the use of donation or pre-sale based crowdfunding and the expense of a full-fledged IPO, has been an underused method of raising money by utilizing “Regulation A”, a securities law that allows companies to directly raise money ...

Rule 144 Privately Offered and Restricted Securiti

10 years ago in Investment Crowdfunding

The average individual has generally only been permitted to purchase stock in large companies whose securities trade on public exchanges such as the NYSE or NASDAQ. To own a share of a smaller private company, one usually needed to either be a direct investor in that company, like an venture ...

Deep Insights from Investment Crowdfunding Industr

10 years ago in Articles, Investment Crowdfunding, Professionals

In case you haven’t had the chance to attend Crowdnetic’s recent Crowd-Financing conference in New York, or haven’t been keeping on top the webinars hosted by SecondMarket or CFIRA, fear not, as we’ve done your homework for you. We’ve created full transcripts, and ...

Crowdfunding ROI Pt. 2 – How will investment

10 years ago in Articles, Investment Crowdfunding

“Which Way Is the Exit?” How Will Equity Crowdfunders Exit Their Investments? By: James Johnson – The entrepreneurial world has been abuzz since the enactment of the JOBS Act in April 2012 with the prospect of the creation of an exemption for equity crowdfunding. Congressman Patrick ...