When President Obama signed the JOBS Act last year, he made it possible for individuals to invest in a wide variety of small businesses, projects and dreams. Crowdfunding is booming. There are more than 600 platforms dedicated to the fund-raising phenomenon. More than $1.7 billion has been raised for projects on these sites and $900 [...]
By Robert A. Adelson Having an investor for your start-up company can provide you access to capital, business development and sales assistance, as well as organizational evolution. The expertise a seasoned investor brings can help a company go public quickly. The ins and outs of finding an investor for your start-up can be challenging. With [...]
CrowdIt’s business development roots provide budding entrepreneurs and savvy business-minded innovators with a next-gen crowdfunding site that offers more than project funding CrowdIt (www.crowdit.com), the crowdfunding site for the “New American Dream,” is encouraging entrepreneurs with great ideas for innovative startups and small businesses to submit project proposals for an opportunity to win $10,000. CrowdIt offers [...]
There is a lot of buzz out there these days about crowdfunding. As Kauffman Dissertation Fellow Ethan Mollick at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School puts it, “Crowdfunding has been drawing substantial attention from policy makers, managers, and entrepreneurs, but relatively little notice from academics, even though it touches on many topics of importance [...]
The National Crowdfunding Association (NLCFA), recently announced that it has agreed, at the request of SCORE, to produce a series of educational webinars to teach the basics of crowdfunding to SCORE’s 13,000+ volunteers. Over the past fifty years, SCORE’s “counselors to America’s small businesses” have helped over 9 million businesses get off the ground, grow [...]
