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Crowdfund Investing versus Traditional Bank Loans
Should you look to crowdfund investing to completely replace your need for bank loans? Probably not, even if you opt for a debt-based crowdfund investment structure. Instead, your goal may be to seek a [more…]
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Those Not Qualified for Traditional Financing Are Ripe for Crowdfund Investing
Many new small businesses can’t secure bank loans. That’s always been the case, and it’s become even more difficult since 2008. Banks require security for their loans and, in most cases, want to see two [more…]
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Protect Your Business's Intellectual Property
If you’ve seen the movie The Social Network, you understand the need to protect your intellectual property. Before you set out on your crowdfund investing campaign, you should clearly understand some risks [more…]
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Staying Legal: Crowfund Investing from the Lawyer’s Experience
This information is provided in conjunction with Doug Ellenoff of Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole (EGS). Consider EGS the leading crowdfunding law firm. They have over 30 years of experience working with startups [more…]
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Set a Minimum Crowdfund Investment Level
When you establish the parameters for crowdfund investment in your business or project, you may determine that you don’t want to bother with tiny investments. You don’t want people buying into your venture [more…]
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What Crowd Investors Need from You
By seeking crowdfunding for a project or new business, you’re embarking on a process that may last for many years. Over those years, you’ll be building and maintaining relationships not only with your [more…]
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Build Your Network before You Raise Money with Crowdfund Investing
Raising money is hard work. Your success depends on your network and crowdfunding strategy. You simply must build relationships and connections with contacts who will be interested in investing in your [more…]
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How to Develop an Infographic to Market Your Crowdfund Investing Opportunity
One of the most valuable networking tools you can use is an infographic. Kelly Hoey of WIM says she wouldn’t have been so successful without diverse relationships. The figure shows her infographic indicating [more…]
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Write Great Headlines for Crowdfund Investing Pitches
Your first step to making a crowdfund investing pitch is to consolidate your business plan into an attention-grabbing one-sentence headline.Sound hard? [more…]
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Year Two: Preparing for the End of the One-Year Stock Holding Period
A 12-month holding period exists on the shares you sell to equity investors during your crowdfund investing campaign. As the 12-month period comes to an end, make sure that you’re ready for it. Investors [more…]
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Craft a Useful Annual Report for Crowdfund Investors
After you make it through a full year in business (with crowdfund investors onboard to boot!), you get to create an annual report that reflects what you’ve accomplished. If you’re familiar with the slick [more…]
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Choose the Right Results for Your Crowdfund Investing Business
When you’re creating a business plan for your crowdfund investing opportunity, you have to determine what results you’re aiming for. In the case of a brand-new or very young business, chances are, those [more…]
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How to Restart a Crowdfund Investing Project
If you get the opportunity to refocus on your startup or your plans for growing your business, you must be able to communicate with your former and new potential crowdfund investors why you’re worth the [more…]
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Conduct Grassroots Marketing for Your Crowdfund Investments
Grassroots marketing for your crowdfund investments involves organizing and motivating volunteers to engage in personal or local outreach. It requires that you develop relationships with other stakeholders [more…]
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Enter Crowdfund Investments with the Right Attitude and Expectations
When the subject is crowdfund investing, you need to ask yourself why you’re investing in the first place. What are your end goals? What is your time horizon? Do you need to earn a certain percentage on [more…]
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Are You the Right Type of Entrepreneur to Tap into Crowdfund Investing?
If you’ve had any experience with creating a startup company, you know that flexibility is your best attribute. Even rock solid business plans need to adjust in the face of changing market conditions, [more…]
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Have a Crowdfund Investment Exit Strategy
Spend time early on (ideally, before you invest) considering the best way for you to exit your crowdfund investments. When buying stocks or bonds of publically traded companies, you have what’s referred [more…]
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Build a Powerful LinkedIn Profile for Crowfund Investing
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn plus public relations combine into a social media marketing effort designed to get the word out to potential investors. Author and social business stylist Jennifer Abernethy [more…]
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Script the Message for Your Crowdfund Investing Pitch Video
A quality video for your crowdfund investing pitch starts with a script. A script doesn’t need to spell out every word you’re going to say; instead, it should act as a guide for all the points you need [more…]
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Do Not Exploit Free Labor in Your Crowdfund Investing Business
Free labor for a business is a wonderful thing. If you’re in the pre-revenue stage of developing a crowdfund investing business, free labor may be the [more…]
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Why Your Crowdfund Investors Differ from Other Stockholders
A crowdfund investor acts differently from the typical stock investor because of the relationship he has with the entrepreneur. After all, how often does a stockholder actually know the company founder [more…]
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Keeping Crowdfund Investors Engaged Even If Progress Is Slow
Even if you’re experiencing problems, your crowdfund investors can handle the turbulence as long as you’re honest and forthright. Whereas a typical stockholder may pull out of a company at the first sign [more…]
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Make Outbound Communication with Your Crowdfund Investors a Priority
Outbound communication is the kind that you initiate; it’s not communication solely in response to questions, demands, or emergencies. Your goal in creating an outbound communication plan is to make it [more…]
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How to Deal with Bad Publicity Regarding Your Crowdfund Investing Business
Business customers and crowdfund investors can now visit an online review site and write anything they want about their customer experience, your product, or your service. Bad publicity used to mean photos [more…]
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Diversify Your Crowdfund Investing Portfolio
If you haven’t been scared you away from crowdfund investing yet, that means you probably have some tolerance for financial risk. How much tolerance? That’s a question only you can answer [more…]
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