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What Role Should Governments Play in Business
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- Category: Creating a Global Framework
- Published on August 01, 2012
- Written by Sherwood Neiss
We can all agree on the important role governments play in our societies. Fundamental to the way we all interact, they provide order via laws, they facilitate economic activity by building infrastructure, and they are the administrators of force via policing departments and military, which protect us and ensure safety. Still, there is a widely-adopted social mythology that the role of government has nothing to do with business, because mixing for-profit motives with not-for-profit interests is like mixing oil with water. Should this “black or white” idea be brought in to question? Considering the facts, the reality is that policy regimes create the conditions under which businesses either thrive or perish. So, policy plays a critical role in business. For example, a government’s policy regime creates or diminishes efficiency in capital markets. Also, sometimes lingering legislation from times past can have enormous consequences today, though circumstances change. I argue that this is the case with the Great Depression-era policy framework that governed securities activities in the United States before the passage of the JOBS Act and sits on the books of many well-meaning countries, looking to protect their citizens from fraud. Sadly these outdated laws have unintended consequences which increase the cost of capital to a point that makes it unrealistic for small businesses hindering growth, employment and prosperity for their business, communities and country as a whole.
Startup America Presentation
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- Category: Entrepreneurship
- Published on July 27, 2012
- Written by Sherwood Neiss
Crowdfund Capital Advisors was proud to present for Startup America sharing the story of changing securities laws in 460 days. If you happened to miss the presentation, all is not lost. It can be viewed in complete form here.
How Crowdfund Investing Will Impact the Venture Capitalist and Broker Dealer Community
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- Category: Crowdfund Investment
- Published on July 26, 2012
- Written by Jason Best
This Friday, August 10th, Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss will be presenting "How Crowdfund Investing Will Impact the Venture Capitalist and Broker Dealer Community." This dynamic ExecSense webinar, gives VC and PE firms what they need to know regarding this revolutionary part of the Jobs Act by focusing on:
• Everything you need to know in 60 minutes about this new asset class, what the law changes, and how VC's can position themselves to benefit
• The most important legal ramifications of the law with respect to capital raising on the internet, disclosure requirements, social media interaction, liability, investor restrictions and much more
How to Increase GDP by Decreasing the Out-flow of Innovation
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- Category: Crowdfunding Platforms
- Published on July 25, 2012
- Written by Jason Best
One only has to look at the wildly successful story of Pebble Watch to see that nations around the globe are in danger of losing jobs and GDP growth due to outdated regulations—that may cause their most promising companies to migrate in search of capital. If you are unfamiliar with the story of Pebble watch, here is the run down. Pebble Watch was a Canadian watch maker that developed a smart watch that synced up with smart phones. After years of trying to get funding at home in Canada they moved to the U.S. in hopes of securing venture capital. With the private equity markets in the U.S., anemic they launched a Kickstarter campaign as a last resort. The result—they raised $10 Million dollars, shutting off their Kickstarter campaign 8 days early due to heavy demand. While Kickstarter is a donation not equity based crowdfunding platform, the overall issue is the same—a promising company that will create a good deal of jobs had to leave the area to get money to create these jobs.
Providing your Remote Workforce with Access to Capital
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- Category: Crowdfund Investment
- Published on July 15, 2012
- Written by Davis Jones
Visualize a group of race horses at the starting gate and imagine that your index finger rests on the button that, when pressed, will unleash the power of this group of thoroughbreds. This is an apt metaphor for the situation of some economies. It's common sense that often, a section of an economy's most talented people choose to live outside of the major urban hubs. In this post, I'll demonstrate how the adoption of crowdfund investing frameworks has the potential to unleash a rush of currently latent human capital stock and thus, to create jobs, to spurn an increase in GDP, and to foster more dynamic national economies.
