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Paul Neiderer, an international equity crowdfunding authority, predicts royalty-based crowdfunding will attract more businesses by 2020 as better systems emerge for revenue management and disbursement. While this pocket of the industry does not quite compete with the equity sector today, perhaps th Read More

The reality is that most ventures do not qualify for venture capital and never will. According to the Small Business Administration, about 600,000 new businesses are started in the U.S. each year, and the number of startups funded by VCs was about 300. This means that the probability of an average Read More

Have you ever wondered how funders discover top founders? Founders are different from one to another, and spotting one is difficult. Here are some tips. Read More

Often entrepreneurs focus on the wrong things during a pitch session, resulting in a strikeout instead of a home run. Read More

Crowdfunding is basically organizing the funds for a new venture or a start-up enterprise by arranging for small funding from a number of individuals or organizations. This is quite similar to an enterprise raising capital through issue of equity shares available to the public. In fact, crowdfundin Read More

Here's the 2nd part of a two-part interview with Carolyn McClure, Senior Vice President, Midland American Capital, a purchase order financing firm. In this interview she gives the 411 on the difference between purchase order financing, Letters of Credit, and receivables financing. Read More

Here's the first part of a two-part interview with Carolyn McClure, Senior Vice President Business Development Officer (Midwest Region) of Midland American Capital, which is one of the few purchase order financing firms in the U.S. In this interview she discusses what purchase order financing is, h Read More

Levar Burton is doing something very right in his Kickstarter video: After one day, the effort to relaunch Reading Rainbow gained upwards of $2 million. Read More

An interesting development has now added a third option. Touted as “crowd-gifting,” this model wholeheartedly embraces fee-free crowdfunding, promising 100% of contributions to filmmakers, authors, and activists. To find such a model, swing by dana.io, a rewards-based portal striving to “lower [the Read More