While crowdfunding has already proven itself to be very effective and without material fraud in the UK and Australia, the rest of the world is stuck awaiting regulatory intervention. In the U.S., it will still be some time before the crowdfunding component of the JOBS Act is finalized....

While a lot of buzz surrounds crowdfunded games and gadgets, a growing trend is in the use of crowdfunding to build community oriented projects. After seeing some real life examples, one might wonder why we don't allocate a percentage of tax revenues to a pool, which is then allocated by...

Now here is the 1 percent that you do want to hear about! The world is on the precipice of creating a trillion-dollar crowdfunding market. In Australia, the ASSOB has offered a crowdfunding investment portal since 2005. In the U.K., equity crowdfunding is already in progress, with investment...

A bittersweet moment in entrepreneurial history recently occurred, with the Senate passage of the JOBS Act. After passing in the House, this 6-pack of small business modernization reforms cleared the Senate. While most things were left intact from the House bill, the crowdfunding component was tweaked to allow for "more...

The House recently passed the JOBS Act, which includes an exemption allowing meaningful crowdfunding for small businesses and other positive reform. And now the Senate is set to cast its first procedural vote on the House's bill, this Tuesday. We are on the precipice of a...

In the next few months, I predict a U.S. presidential candidate will fully endorse crowdfunding. And that endorsement will earn the candidate millions of votes, and a tremendous amount of the network effect that crowdfunding participants are so versed at. Why? Just for starters, Kickstarter expects to provide...

Every change in a system encounters resistance, especially those changes which make the most sense. In our new information economy, where value is derived from the richness of our networks and the novel ways in which we find to organize information and connections, a matching capital formation mechanism makes sense....

It's no secret that venture capital and angel investing is 'clubby,' dominated mostly by middle-aged men.

According to a 2007 study of angel investors in North America, 86 percent were male with an average age of 57. Women didn't fare any better in a similar

Joseph Pulitzer used a form of crowdfunding to finance the Statue of Liberty. Obama used crowdfunding to bankroll his presidential campaign in 2008.

Crowdfunding is such a pervasive concept that today more than 175 crowdfunding sites exist online. Seemingly, a new crowdfunding site pops up every other day. So...