Capital Raising

Investor or Equity Crowdfunding From Pitch to Execution with Paul Niederer

In this 40 minute video I’m interviewed by Jonny Sandlund of the Crowdcafe about some of the practical aspects of investor or equity based crowdfunding. Twenty five years ago, when the word “bulletin board” was used instead of a website and the word crowdfunding did not exist, Australian regulators passed legislation that allowed small businesses …

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The Road to Equity Crowdfunding Hell

Equity Crowdfunding Daniel Isenberg, Professor of Management Practice at Babson Global has written a controversial article for the Harvard Business Review titled “The Road to Crowdfunding Hell” He builds his article around 4 main points: Equity Crowdfunding is based on inappropriate extrapolations from other similar-appearing activities, such as donation crowdfunding. Purchasing equity (stock) in early stage ventures is …

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Investors need to consider investing in stocks productively

Reading Bob Gottliebsen’s article on investing in shares in Business Spectator should have got you thinking. To an investor what does”Investing Productively” mean? Bob picked up the theme of my talk based on a blog post on capitalunderdogs which was that investing by individuals today is predominantly driven by charts, numbers, spreadsheets and stock picking software …

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Capital Underdogs reveals stats of $1.5m capital raised thru 304 followers worth $4804

If any of you have attended my capital raising seminars over the years you will have experienced the strong shift towards obtaining investors through people discovered during “Discovery Sessions”. Discovery sessions are intensive sessions where followers of the business, founders or technology can be uncovered. Crowdfunding is leading the way here and in effect ASSOB …

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Fringe moments

  Loved this article from StartupSmart Six degrees of investor separation That fringe moment at the end of each meeting. Maybe as you open the car door to go. “Look I’ll get back to you” they say…. but “You should really meet X”. Recognising that signal is worth gold! OK so maybe they feel guilty …

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Startups live shorter lives, need less money and good google results

Today’s startups look to … have a shorter life require less funds than previously be more transparent with google, as past and future stakeholders can be checked out have found that private equity from platforms like ASSOB and Angelsoft are often a better match than venture capitalists will have more rather than fewer individual investors. …

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Green Passion and Ethical Investing.

This week I shared the stage with the Green Leader Bob Brown at the 10th Australian Sustainability Awards. Ethical Investment was why everyone was there apart from the excellent menu which featured organically grown fare. Paddy Manning a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald reported well on it, picking up on my phrase “It takes passion …

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Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula Live! in Scottsdale Arizona

Had a great visit to Scottsdale Arizona in mid October to join 450 others at Jeff Walker’s Product Launch Formula Workshop. I’ve reported on the business side of things here. It was a great venue with three very intense days. What was special was that the majority of people were experienced with using the Product …

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