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Sky News Equity Crowdfunding – Matthew Pinter, Paul Niederer and Chris Gilbert

Matthew Pinter, Paul Niederer and Chris Gilbert were guests on Switzer this week on Sky News for an interview on Crowdfunding. While the panel primarily included equity crowdfunding or investment crowdfunding representatives pledge, reward and realty crowdfunding were also covered. Peter Switzer asked if we had come across any circumstances where smart alecs get involved …

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Holistic Equity Crowdfunding

If we look at regulatory implementations of the equity crowdfunding around the globe most are not holistic. Just because you have Equity Crowdfunding Regulations doesn’t mean you have Equity Crowdfunding. For the most part they are regulated with new regulations totally independent from the environment they are expected to operate in. In other words we …

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Hope’s role in Equity Crowdfunding

At a recent Angel Investor event I overheard an entrepreneur seeking capital ask an Angel Investor the following question. “What sectors do you specialise in when selecting investments?” The Angel Investor said he had no special preference as he was primarily after “anything that had enough in it to back up a 10 times return”. …

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Why equity crowdfunding for start-ups is right for Australia: Paul Niederer

This BRW article by Adir Shiffman inspired this post! “Why equity crowdfunding for start-ups is wrong for Australia: entrepreneur Adir Schiffman” Whenever I read “alternative investment class” and “crowdfunding” in the same sentence I get nervous. Having been invited and discussed equity crowdfunding with many overseas security regulators, including the U.S. SEC and FINRA, the …

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‘Small Scale’ Equity Offerings ARE Equity Crowdfunding Raises!

Australia’s ‘Small Scale Offerings’ legislation combined with our regulator ASIC’s ‘Class Order’ or exemption to the rules regarding the promotion of these types of equity offers is, inarguably the first equity crowdfunding legislation in the world. Both the Small Scale Offerings legislation that was enshrined into our Commonwealth Corporations Act in 2000 and the ASIC Class Order …

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Equity Crowdfunding and Regions

A hundred years or so ago regional funding was all the rage. Crowdfunding legislation is again looking at regions as one state after another legitimises intra-state crowdfunding. In the video below I detail the shift in funding from regions to one central point and back again. Stock Exchanges used to be primarily funding matchmakers The …

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Learnings from $11.4 million of Equity Crowdfunding raises from mostly unaccredited investors

Success leaves clues. I wondered, what is “Best in Class” in raising funds from predominantly retail or unaccredited investors. Best way to find out was to look at 16 of the most successful, recent Startup equity raises on the ASSOB Equity funding Capital Raising platform. These 16 raised over 11 million dollars together on ASSOB. Most of …

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Australian Crowdfunding Hangout closing thoughts from ASSOB’s Paul Niederer and CAMAC’s John Kluver

Andrew Ward and Startup88 recently hosted a discussion on the recent CAMAC Australian report on Crowdfunding. Here are the closing summaries from Paul Niederer and John Kluver. The full discussion can be accessed here! My view is that the report was well researched and well written. However unless there are other changes in the early …

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For many Startups there is no “Crowd” in Equity Crowdfunding

Crowd is a broad word and it can be your crowd (or tribe), someone else’s crowd (their tribe) or an awaiting crowd in the big wide world. While many a crowdfunding raise yearns to leap into volumes of people that the offering has no contact with at the start of the raise, in reality, not …

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Some minor changes will enable Australia to fully embrace Equity Crowdfunding

INTRO Country after country, state after state are introducing regulations to facilitate equity crowdfunding for entrepreneurs and investors. This is normally sold by the implementers as a combination of ways to create more jobs and fund businesses that are finding it more difficult in the post GFC era to get funding. Unfortunately Australia isn’t even …

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