Comments on: Seeing the Crowdfunding Exemption Become Legal

By: Türkiye Crowdfunding Yasası? | CrowdTurka

Türkiye Crowdfunding Yasası? | CrowdTurka — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:39:50 +0000

[...] Makezine.com habercisi Paul Spinrad’ın haberinde crowdfunding sektörünün öncülerinden olan Sherwood (Woodie) Neiss geçen yıl MIT’nin İstanbul’da düzenlediği bir konferansta üst düzey hükümet görevlilerden edindiği bir bilgiye yer vermektedir. Neiss bu söyleşi esnasında Türkiye’nin crowdfunding ile ilgili bir yasa tasarısı üzerinde çalıştığı, muhtemelen ABD’de olduğu gibi yasallaştırmanın yollarını aradığını belirtmiş. [...]

By: How do we make DIYBio sustainable? « Into Oblivion

How do we make DIYBio sustainable? « Into Oblivion — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:15:12 +0000

[...] may pretty often be a tough experience. Encouragingly, recent changes in legislation, namely the US Jobs Act and Italy’s Crowdfunding Exemption, help rekindle the crowdfunding idea in a rather interesting [...]

By: How do we make DIYBio sustainable? | Beyond The Lab

How do we make DIYBio sustainable? | Beyond The Lab — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:24:05 +0000

By: The $1,000 Indiegogo Campaign and Petition that Led to Legal Crowdfunding and the JOBS Act | Crowdfunding News

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 02:43:33 +0000

[...] comments than any previous SEC rulemaking petition, and catalyzed a movement that resulted in the signing of the CROWDFUND Act, as Title III of the JOBS Act of 2012. At a recent Milken Institute roundtable [...]

By: How Crowdfunding and the JOBS Act Got Started, Told by the Guy Behind the Big Idea | Crowdfunding News

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 01:05:32 +0000

[...] lists. Last April at the White House, this crowd of fellow travelers and I had the honor of seeing the JOBS Act signed, and now many of us are working with the SEC and FINRA to make sure the new [...]

By: How Crowdfunding and the JOBS Act Got Started, Told by the Guy Behind the Big Idea | Alles Over Crowd Funding

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:43:37 +0000

By: Paul Spinrad

Paul Spinrad — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:42:16 +0000

Thank you, Sean! Yes, people will attempt sleazy things– but the new “funding portal” business will be competitive, and it’s in their interest to vet thoroughly and maintain a good reputation. Also, it will be hard for fraudsters to believably spoof interaction among groups of people who know one another.

I would love to discuss this with you some time soon! Lots of fun possibilities for helping makers, and all the new funding portals springing up will desperately need their good ideas. Just like the cliche from the early days of the web: “content is king.”

That’s interesting about the presidents– so, who’s the first baseball player president going to be?

By: Sean Ragan

Sean Ragan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:21:37 +0000

Congratulations to you, Paul. And well-documented, too. I would probably not have had the presence of mind to record events as well as you did. This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen on the blog in a very long time. And while I think some abuses of crowdfunding are inevitable, I also expect the changes to do so much more good than bad, and at a time when our country is rather desperately in need of entrepreneurship. Your involvement in this work is something I am proud to be associated with just by sharing a masthead with you. I can only imagine how you must feel.

Also, from an interesting wikipedia article… =]

According to Daniel Geschwind, a professor of human genetics at UCLA, in 2008: “Six out of the past 12 presidents is statistically significant, and probably means something”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

By: Evan Foss

Evan Foss — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:05:01 +0000

The “Blue Sky Laws” were passed because things like this make the sort of fraud HeavyG is concerned about frequent. The problem was that they also stopped regular people from getting funding from none-family members for start-up businesses. However, there were a lot of success stories from the time before the Blue Sky Laws were passed. Notably Control Data Corporation as Seymour Cray explained in one of his speeches.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:01:28 +0000

There was a lot of stuff in that bill. It would be great if it was broken down so that each part could be passed on its own merit. Down with big bills. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jobs_Act

On a second and primary note. I really hope crowdfunding keeps growing! It is really great to see this kind of enthusiastic entreupeneurship working.