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Crowdfunding News 9/26/12 How to make the best crowdfunding pitch Washington Post (blog) The Securities and Exchange Commission is drafting regulations for crowdfunding – a not yet legal practice allowing companies to sell stakes to large numbers of small investors, potentially online. Startups looking to pursue those dollars will need to ... See all stories on this topic » National Crowdfunding Association Partners with Equity Advertising Ventures to ... The Herald | HeraldOnline.com 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Crowdfunding Association today announced that it has partnered with Equity Advertising Ventures, a San Diego-based marketing and communications firm, to create enhanced marketing campaigns in ... See all stories on this topic » Gambitious Launches, Brings Equity and Donation Crowdfunding to Video Games Crowdsourcing.org While pledges can be made by anyone over 18 years old, the equity crowdfunding model is open primarily to...

Crowdfunding News 9/20/12 No need to wait for crowdfunding Bizjournals.com A handful of upstarts are working to make crowdfunding a reality—now. They're creating platforms using existing rules that give businesses the chance to raise money online, and offer investors a chance to roll the dice on private companies, no matter ... See all stories on this topic » Online Ticketing Startup Picatic Launches EventTilt, Its Kickstarter For Events TechCrunch Crowdfunding is all the rage these days, isn't it? People are crowdfunding their hardware startups, crowdfunding their insurance bills, even crowdfunding their honeymoons. And now you can crowdfund concerts and other events. Online ticketing startup ... See all stories on this topic » Crowdfunding getting behind-the-scenes push in Canada National Post Crowdfunding is practiced in other parts of the world and, thanks to the passage of the JOBS Act, is now the law in the United States, although pot...

Crowdfunding News 9/19/12 How Crowdfunding and the JOBS Act Got Started, Told by the Guy Behind the ... Crowdsourcing.org The JOBS Act's crowdfunding exemption, along with its legalization of general solicitation, is a deep-structure re-engineering of securities laws that, to quote internet guru Clay Shirky, "isn't a new way to do the old stuff; it is a new model of the ... See all stories on this topic » Crowdsourcing.org Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa beats crowdfunding record for film The Guardian Charlie Kaufman. Photograph: Danny Martindale/WireImage. A Charlie Kaufman-scripted stop motion film has raised a record $406,237 (£250,600) via the crowdfunding website Kickstarter, capitalising on a new route into raising finance for film production. See all stories on this topic » The Guardian Reuters on the Road: Crowdfunding fills cash void Reuters Reuters on the Road: Crowdfunding fills cash void. ReutersVideo . Subscrib...

Crowdfunding News 9/17/12 How Startup Magazines Crowdfund , Crowdsource, and Hold Onto Print PBS MediaShift In the past year, there has been a steady output of crowdfunded journalism projects, many of which are entrepreneurial in spirit and target a niche community. (An assortment of crowdfunding platforms and successful projects were covered in the ... See all stories on this topic » Crowdfunding The Chance For 10000 Entrepreneurs To Have Better Teams Forbes My favorite part of great heist movies is the part where they put the team together. The minds behind the heist know they have the chance to get the big score, but they know they can't do it alone. So they spend their time planning for the perfect ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes Crowd funding gets local with video contest Daily Mail - Charleston Websites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo have helped thousands of businesses get off the ground by helping would-be ...

Crowdfunding News 9/12/12 Techonomy: Crowd funding important for cities like Detroit, says AOL founder MLive.com Crowd funding -- when individuals use the Internet to raise funding for a business or project through small donations -- gives entrepreneurs in cities like Detroit one of the best chances to succeed, according to panelists at the Techonomy Detroit ... See all stories on this topic » MLive.com Crowd-funding sites such as Kickstarter yield a mixed record of success Philadelphia Inquirer With dozens of " crowd-funding " sites out there, three-year-old Kickstarter.com being the largest, anyone with an artistic endeavor can raise millions in capital in a minute. Right? Artists wish. Certainly, there are some amazing success stories, like ... See all stories on this topic » Philadelphia Inquirer Small Business Focused On Disabilities Turns To Crowdfunding For Startup The Herald | HeraldOnline.com COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 12, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ -- S...

The above is from the SEC's meeting on Rule 506 of Regulation D. This is an important provision that will allow small firms to raise up to $50 million under the JOBS Act. The result of the meeting is that a draft rule will be posted to the SEC website concerning the mechanics of this provision later today.