Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges

Re:Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges by mpg33 on Monday March 03, 2014 @12:24PM (#7334961)

When will we see crowd equity sites? Ie invest in early startups and get equity in the company.

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Re:Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges by showerst on Monday March 03, 2014 @12:35PM (#7335045)

The SEC is in the process of changing the rules to allow this as part of the USA JOBS act [1]. I think the timeline still depends on them but you should start seeing those sites come live around Q4 2014.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/13...

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Re:Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges by tim333 on Monday March 03, 2014 @04:37PM (#7336678)

http://www.crowdcube.com/, http://www.seedrs.com/ - UK companies along those lines

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Re:Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges by Gustomaximus on Monday March 03, 2014 @05:53PM (#7337137)

Also www.wefunder.com for the US.

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Re:Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges by InclinedPlane on Monday March 03, 2014 @06:32PM (#7337374)

Any day now. The SEC has been dragging its feet implementing the JOBS act. Congress mandated that they implement equity based crowd funding provisions months ago but they haven't done so.

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Re:Kickstarter passes $1B in pledges by greyshi on Monday March 03, 2014 @02:40PM (#7335917)

Everyone can be a VC!

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