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Crowdfunding Your Start-Up - The Future of Start-Up Funding

Monday, January 30, 2012 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PST)

Crowdfunding Your Start-Up - The Future of Start-Up Funding

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Find out how to crowd-fund your start-up. A panel of experienced CEOs and lawyers will tell you how to use crowd-funding to fund your start-up.

You will learn about the tricks to crow-funding and how to avoid to common problems of navigating this fragmented field. Also, learn the significance of the pending Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act (HR-2930).

Here is a list some of the resources we are going to discuss:

1. IndieGoGo: democratized funding

2. 33 Needs: Connecting microinvestors & social enterpreneurs

3. Buzzbnk: Supporting a wide range of fields

4. ProFounder: Investors share in the profits

5. Kickstarter: Supporting a wealth of creative projects

6. ChipIn: Embed a widget, raise $

7. Crowdcube: Equity-based investment community

8. FundaGeek: Funding for tech innovation

9. Peerbackers: Raise funds from your peers

10. Sponsume: Free fundraising platform

Panelists:

 Ethan Stone - Venture and Technology Business Lawyer

Ethan has represented clients in raising angel and venture capital, selling and acquiring businesses (ranging from multi-national, multi-billion deals to the sale of a website for $20,000), licensing technology in and out, executive hirings and departures and a wide variety of strategic partnerships, joint ventures, revenue sharing, service outsourcing and technology development agreements.

 

Erica Leibovitz - Director of Marketing at IndieGoGo

IndieGoGo focuses on democratizing the fundraising. Erica has  extensive experience in business marketing and product innovation.


 

 

 

 

There will be a networking wine reception after the program. Come early, stay late, find the funding.

There will be a networking wine reception after the program. Come early, stay late, find the funding.

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