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<span style=”font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #505050;”>Hey all, Happy <span class=”aBn” style=”border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: #cccccc; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;” tabindex=”0″ data-term=”goog_1444592041″><span class=”aQJ” style=”position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;”>Sunday—hope you’re enjoying these last few weekends of Spring. Unfortunately, Summer got impatient here in New York. It’s scorching hot! Anyways, here’s a roundup of this week’s investment crowdfunding news. Give me a shout at j@thecrowdcafe.com if you have any questions or updates!
<span style=”font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px;”>Selected Articles
- <span style=”font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;”><span style=”color: #0033cc;”>A New Startup Financing Model and the Passionate Voices Behind It | Entrepreneur Magazine A brilliant feature piece on Crowdfund Capital Adivsors and its pioneering work in the U.S. and abroad.
- <span style=”font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;”><span style=”color: #0033cc;”>End of the peer show | Economist The Peer-to-Peer (P2P) market is booming—but is it time for a name change? Institutions account for 2/3 of loan volume on the industry’s leading platform, LendingClub. The relationship between institutional and individual capital is something to keep a close eye on in emerging peer-to-peer and peer-to-business marketplaces.
- <span style=”font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;”><span style=”color: #0033cc;”>Crowdfunding the Cheapest Robots in Silicon Valley: A VC’s View | Wired Business | More and more hardware companies are using reward-based crowdfunding as an on-ramp to venture capital.
- <span style=”font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;”><span style=”color: #0033cc;”>Building With the Crowd | Canadian Architect Civic crowdfunding is going to be huge, dare I say revolutionary. I mean, it doesn’t get any cooler than this: “However, it wasn’t the design of the bridge turning heads–a fine but unremarkable span in wood–nor the vital connection it would soon make. It was the way the bridge was funded. ZUS sold the bridge piece by piece via a crowdfunding website. For 25 Euros, anyone could purchase one of the bridge’s wooden planks and have their name emblazoned on it with laser-cut letters. The people that assembled it on opening night weren’t just eager onlookers–they were owners.”
- <span style=”font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;”><span style=”color: #0033cc;”>Get ready for real estate crowd funding and more advertising for investors | New York Real Estate Journal Awareness of crowdfunding is accelerating in industry circles.
- <span style=”font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;”><span style=”color: #0033cc;”>Crowdfunding Sites Scoot Around a Regulatory Traffic Jam | Business Week Using existing exemptions, a handful of platforms are crowdfunding, to varying degrees, today.
- <span style=”font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 16px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;”><span style=”color: #0033cc;”>Kickstarter hits 100k funding campaigns with $631M raised so far | Venture Beat Title says it all. A big milestone for Kickstarter as it hits 100,000 campaigns launched. Next up — 100k campaigns successfully funded.
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