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How is Crowdfunding Changing Finance

Submitted by Freaking Heck on 10/16/2014 19:34 -0400

By: Mark Wallace at http://capitalistexploits.at/

On Tuesday we posted podcast session #1 with Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss from Crowdfund Capital Advisors, two of the Crowdfunding movement's most influential thought leaders. Today we bring you parts 2 and 3.

As we mentioned previously, Jason was kind enough to join us in Aspen this past August to speak to Members of our private global investment syndicate, Seraph. That talk was one of the most highly-anticipated of the event, and Jason didn't disappoint.

Jason and his partner Sherwood have led the charge in the US for crowdfunding, which led to the passage of the JOBS Act, the first significant change to the securities laws in the last 80 years!

Crowdfunding has ushered in a new, highly disruptive movement. Players are clamoring to get into the space, everyone from Angel List to Our Crowd on the top end of equity crowdfunding, to the less well-known players like AgFunder and EmergingFrontiers, which is set to launch its own platform in the next couple of weeks! They'll be bringing emerging and frontier markets equity crowdfunding to Main Street, with minimum investments as low as $1,000, and the ability to create your own syndicates and funds... Stay tuned!

Listen to Podcast #2 her e. Alternatively, you can download podcast #2 here. For the audio transcription for podcast #2, click here to download.

Listen to Podcast #3 he re. Alternatively, you can download podcast #3 here. For the audio transcription for podcast #3, click here to download.

We'll be interviewing Luan Cox from CrowdNetic in an upcoming podcast where will be discussing the data analytics side of the industry. Then we'll speak to Kevin Virgil from EmergingFrontiers.com to tell us about the launch of their platform and how it's set to revolutionize investing in emerging and frontier markets!

As always, thank you for reading (and now listening!). If you have questions you can reach out to Jason and Woodie via their website at: http://crowdfundcapitaladvisors.com/

You can also meet Jason in person at the Crowdfinance 2014 conference happening TODAY in New York at the Thomson Reuters Event Center. For more information check out the website here: http://www.crowdfinance2014.co/

- Mark

"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!" - Dr. Seuss

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Thu, 10/16/2014 - 22:44 | 5344947 Save_America1st

seems to be working very well at StartJoin.com

They've funded quite a lot of projects. The silver MaxCoin Crypto Bullion project was massive...raised $90,000. Max sold 1oz silver MaxCoin rounds each with 100 MaxCoins attached to them for 50 bucks each. Quite a high premium over spot, but just goes to show that people are will to invest in bullion-backed crypto currencies even if they aren't BTC. I grabbed 2 ounces just for shits and giggles to see how it all turns out. I'm not exactly worrying that I paid 100 bucks for 2 ounces of silver even if the 200 MaxCoins never play out to be worth a damn thing. I'll still have those 2 ounces that will be nearly priceless one day and will be added to my stack. It's not like they will hurt my cost per ounce average very much in the grand scheme of things.

I proposed a crowdsourcing project on there and hope it scores bigtime with lots of interest. We'll see...was worth a shot. There are tons of projects proposed on there...some are totally stupid, some are very intelligently thought out business proposals.

At least it's all outside the fucked up bankster system.

Thu, 10/16/2014 - 21:58 | 5344827 KnuckleDragger-X