Blog Posts
5-Day Challenge: Create a Golden Opportunity for Investors
We just wrapped up a LIVE 5-day challenge—Create a Golden Opportunity for Investors: How to Design a Win-Win Investment Offering. It was awesome! Hundreds of people joined the challenge where we...
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How to Make Investing in Your Company a Golden Opportunity
You’ve built a company with a promising future. You’re ready to start looking for funding. You know there are some folks out there (maybe your customers, suppliers, neighbors, values-aligned...
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Do I Really Have to Do This? Yes, and It’s the Right Thing to Do
Raising investment dollars for your business is one of the smartest ways to reach your long-term goals. But like most things that are worthwhile, getting investments is work. And it’s not just the...
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Temporary Relief for Investment Crowdfunders
I recently joined the board of directors of the Crowdfunding Professional Association. The board asked me to draft a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission requesting emergency temporary...
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Fundraising Tips from Dan Fireside, Capital Coordinator at Equal Exchange
Equal Exchange is a worker-cooperative that sells Fair Trade coffee, chocolate, and other staples. They created a revolutionary way of raising money from investors. Investors receive non-voting...
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Major Changes to Securities Rules
For those of us who care about moving investment dollars into the businesses we love, March 4, 2020 was like Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and the Fourth of July all wrapped into one. The Securities...
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Major changes for maximum impact
Dear Community, This is my last blog post for 2019, and I want to thank you for all your support this year. As we work to change the face of investment in our country, your outpouring of love for...
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We are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting for
This year’s CoCap (Community Capital Conference) was our best yet, and I walked away feeling very hopeful. One of the main themes was this: we don’t have to wait for a white knight to move capital...
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How to get your fundraising done quickly so you can move on with your life
Here is an exercise we recommend in order to make sure you get your fundraising done within a reasonable amount of time. 1. Imagine you have reached your fundraising goal. You are looking at the...
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Investor Management 101
I advise my clients to be open to having a larger number of smaller investors rather than one or two big ones. Why? There are two reasons: (1) it’s easier to reach your fundraising goal when you...
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