The crowdfunding revolution is upon us. Whether you're talking rewards-based crowdfunding, donation, peer to peer lending, or equity crowdfunding, this financing option is growing into a stable and viable option for startups, entrepreneurs and businesses. But policies...
Crowd Finance
Collaborative or decentralized models of finance and investing, including equity crowdfunding, reward crowdfunding, crowd currencies, peer-to-peer lending and peer-to-peer commerce.
Missed Our Crowdchat on Equity Crowdfunding? Here is a Recap
We chatted with Darren Westlake, co-founder and CEO of Crowdcube - the equity based crowdfunding platform in U.K. - on Twitter, talking all things crowdfunding and equity. If you missed the chat, we have the "Storify" version for you, below. To be notified of future...
Join Darren Westlake of Crowdcube on #Crowdchat
Are you an entrepreneur or investor with questions on crowdfunding for equity? Here is your chance. Darren Westlake, co-founder and CEO of Crowdcube - the equity based crowdfunding platform in U.K. - will be talking all things crowdfunding and equity on our next...
Crowdfunding’s Latest Invasion: Real Estate
This post written originally appeared on Forbes. Crowdfunding is rapidly changing the real-estate investment market, offering developers new ways to finance projects, small investors a way in, and the socially conscious an avenue to support their local communities—and...
On Monday September 23, 2013: Advertising to Investors Becomes Legal in the US
The JOBS Act Title II was published yesterday on the Federal Register which makes this new law effective on Monday September 23 or 60 days later. This is a gargantuan change from the Securities Act of 1933 — breaking the 80 year old ban on allowing advertising of...
A Look at Italy’s Enacted Regulations for Equity Crowdfunding
On Friday 12th of July, the CONSOB – the Italian financial securities commission – proudly announced that Italy was going to be the first country in Europe to enact regulations for equity crowdfunding. The CONSOB commissary said its hopes were that the law will not...
Crowdfunding In Europe: The Top 10 ‘Peer-to-Peer’ Lenders
Crowdfunders generally fall into different categories: equity, donation, reward, and debt. The last is also known as microfinancing — and commonly referred to in Europe as “peer-to-peer lending.” Here are the top 10 up-and-coming peer-to-peer lenders e making...
Crowdfunding’s Latest Invasion: Real Estate
This post written originally appeared on Forbes. Crowdfunding is rapidly changing the real-estate investment market, offering developers new ways to finance projects, small investors a way in, and the socially conscious an avenue to support their local communities—and...
Reasons Why You Don’t Need to Worry About SEC’s Passing of Title II
T2: Judgment Day? These thoughts are completely my own and do not reflect the intent or thoughts of Return on Change, any of its affiliates, directors, employees or stakeholders of any kind. We start with a shout out to the color guard of the days of old, when...
One US State Is Leading In Investment Crowdfunding: Guess Which One
The following guest post is by David Drake, originally appeared on Forbes. 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...
What is the Potential of The Crowd Economy?
What is the crowd economy? You may know it as the sharing or collaborative economy that presents an economic opportunity for ordinary citizens to monetize idle resources like an extra bedroom, tools or their car. But it also includes crowdfunding, crowdsourced...
Berlin’s ‘Future of Crowdfunding’ Conference Brings Together European Practitioners
‘The Future of Crowdfunding’, the first conference in Berlin on April 17, focused on the long-term implications of crowdfunding, its legal and cultural challenges was produced by ikosom and Crowdsourcing Week. The conference was supported by IHK Berlin and sponsored...