Crowdfunding

What Do You Know About The “Online” Private Market?

Story of VenturePicks

As part of my Kauffman Fellows Program education, I had to work on a field project. My first thought was to write a book about the future of venture, based on interviewing several top VCs globally.

Thoughts about Crowdfunding for Startups (4/4)

This is my last post about this topic, and here I provide few crazy ideas to enable startups to crowdfund from non-accredited crowd investors and enable crowd investors to exchange stocks of those startups.

Thoughts about Crowdfunding for Startups (2/4)

The concept of crowdfunding was really successful for non-profits, charities, donations, and even for political campaigns. Barack Obama raised $500m in 2008 online from the crowd with an average donation of $80. Great examples of platforms that…

Thoughts about Crowdfunding for Startups (1/4)

I have always been fascinated by two different but closely related ideas: the idea of crowd funding, i.e., raising capital investment from the crowd at the seed stage, and the idea of a private stock market for startup companies, i.e., enabling…