Private equity

Real Estate Crowdfunding Researched

Came across a great read this week. Real Estate Crowdfunding: Gimmick or Game Changer? A Real Estate Crowdfunding Report which has been researched very well. You can download it here! Whenever new technology is adopted by some of the participants in an industry, it has the potential to disrupt the existing players and their roles, or …

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Trust and how the Blockchain shifts trust

  Lots of words are being used in tandem with the blockchain and trust. Decentralising trust, Re-intermediaton of trust, Shifting of trust, Unbundling trust, Reassigning trust, Earning trust, Delivering trust and Distributing trust. The effect of the shift in handling trust may surpass the earlier two milestones being the advent of double entry book keeping and …

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What Government Sell Downs can learn from Crowdfunding Techniques

Reflecting on the learnings of 300 Equity Crowdfunding raises I thought many of the tools, techniques and especially the transparency could be directly applied to Government asset sell down. With equity raises there are three aspects that tick the boxes when it comes to getting a fundable opportunity. Of course there are the analytics and supporting …

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Investor Aggregation for Capital Raising and the Campaign Approach

Traditionally investor aggregation at the IPO level often includes a well planned and well funded marketing campaign. However non-IPO raises seldom have as well constructed campaigns. Often the “rolodex” is the campaign. Go through the rolodex and do a one time communication, usually an email with an investment summary attached, to the target. In the …

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Mitigating Fraud in Crowdfinance

This “Mitigating Fraud in Crowdfinance” Webinar was held on the 24th of September 2015 and was hosted by Dara Albright. This is an updated version of the presentation I gave in 2013 at the 2nd annual Crowdfund Investing Innovation Forum, organized by the Crowdfunding Professional Association which now includes investor aggregation, Joey Roth’s Charlatan, Martyr and Hustler …

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Investor Aggregation or Serendipity … your choice in gaining investors

When it comes to private equity investments, whether it is via an existing financial services player or an investor or equity crowdfunding platform there are two distinct ways of gaining investors. Serendipity. This is the build the offering and they will come approach. You prepare your pitch decks and Information Memorandum or offering document and you send …

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An Alternative Title III / Retail / Non-accredited Investors and Equity Crowdfunding Solution

Around the world there is little evidence that regulators can provide a regulatory environment to get traction in the investor aggregation space for retail equity crowdfunding raises under say $600,000. Even in the United Kingdom, where the regulator has allowed the industry to develop and has fine-tuned the regulations as they go virtually every raise …

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Investor Aggregation, Capital Raising and Equity Crowdfunding

In any equity crowdfunding platform raise there are number of aspects. An investment opportunity must be captured by the platform and built to be investor ready. Prospective investors need to be gathered and aggregated. The raise is kept compliant Gathered prospective investors need to be nurtured and welcomed as investors.   Both issuers (fundraisers) and …

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Equity Crowdfunding needs to embrace tomorrow not yesterday to get traction

One of the questions in the Australian Equity Crowdfunding discussion paper (CSEF) got me thinking. Are regulators building this for yesterday or tomorrow? Here was the question: “What are the implications for the corporate law framework of permitting proprietary companies to do so? The question should have been … “How can we change the corporate law framework …

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Three reasons why the new Australian regulatory framework for equity crowdfunding is the wrong approach for startups and millennials will leave it in the dust 

Sometimes regulators can’t see the trees for the forest. “Equity Crowdfunding” or CSEF is the  forest. It is a new area, countries worldwide are contriving regulations that are yet to be proven and have no track record of success as legislation or as a “forest”.  Australia, by copying something unproven and bettering it is a high …

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