www.crowdfunder.com/crowdfunder/team/ Heather Lindsey Heather Lindsey offers ten years of operations, strategy, legal, and management experience. In addition to having helped start several successful ventures, she has worked for publicly traded and closely held, small businesses. Heather’s amassed skills include project and general management, legal counsel, business development, research, licensing, business affairs, and asset management. During her career, Heather has supervised, negotiated, or managed over $100 million in investments, obligations, and assets. Currently serving as a consultant, Heather has been at Crowdfunder for the past year. How it Works How does it work? private-equity-investment.co.uk is a platform which entrepreneurs search for risk capital, credit, private equity, loans or even partners etc. To help investors choose their ideal investment opportunity entrepreneurs are able to give a full range of details to their proposals.
Funding Circle, a Kickstarter for SMBs, Picks Up $16M From Index, Union Square Ventures Some great news for small business owners, and perhaps a sign of more crowdsourced funding coming to the U.S.: the UK-based Funding Circle — a kind of Kickstarter for lending to smaller enterprises — has just announced that it has raised a $16 million round to further build up its business of enabling non-bank lending to small enterprises. The investment included participation from existing investor Index Ventures as well as new investor Union Square Ventures — a sign of how Funding Circle may have its sights set on taking advantage of new crowdfunding laws and expanding to the U.S. This Series B round takes the total raised by Funding Circle to $21 million. Funding Circle has made some impressive strides since launching in the UK 18 months ago: it’s facilitated lending to 670 small businesses in the UK, with funds totaling £28 million ($45 million), representing annual growth of over 400 percent.
Collective IP Collective IP about Our story. Collective IP was founded in 2011 with a singular mission: Accelerate the commercialization of global R&D through a marketplace that uniquely surfaces ideas, technologies and inventors; and quickly catalyze the connection between buyers and sellers of these assets in a revolutionary way. To accomplish this goal we built the world’s most comprehensive and accurate organization of technologies emerging from universities, companies and inventors.
Seeking Angel Investment: Why do I need an exit strategy? As a rule of thumb, the value of the company is the investment amount divided by the proportion of the shares being offered. For example if you want to offer one third of the shares in the company for 100k investment, you need to show why your company is worth 300k. This is not always easy, especially if you are pre-start with no track record.
With JOBS Act Becoming Law, Crowdfunding Platforms Look To Create Self-Regulatory Body Today, President Obama signs the JOBS Act into law, legalizing crowdfunding in startups by non-accredited investors, so that anyone and their mother can invest. The new law stipulates that entrepreneurs can now raise money from any and all, however, startups are limited to $1 million per year, and must stick to portals approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. What’s more, the legislation dispenses with the 500-shareholder rule, which put a limit on the number of shareholders a company was allowed before registering with the SEC (and going public).
ABOUT US - Global Inventions Global Inventions Ltd business was formed in 1994 and now has associate offices in UK, USA, Japan, India and Kenya. We are committed to becoming an important catalyst in the transformation of conceptual ideas from designers, inventors and students to successful products. We specialise in high-volume, low-technology, innovative consumer items and patented inventions. Our products typically retail for between US$5.00 to US$80.00 and include consumer items, design, games, mobile phones / accessories, photography, watches etc. 13 Crowdfunding Websites to Fund Your Business Who needs banks? Crowdfunding websites can help you find a community of small investors to fund your business, without the risks of traditional financing. Here is a list of crowdfunding sites. Some sites focus on funding creative projects, others sites focus on meeting specific needs in the marketplace or community.
Change.org Hits 10 Million Members, Now The “Fastest-Growing Social Action Platform On The Web” Change.org launched in 2007 as a social networking site for non-profits. Today, the site looks quite a bit different and has morphed into a petition platform that wants to empower activists around the world through what it calls “people-powered campaigns.” While the site only grew rather slowly in its early years, it’s on a tear now. Competitive Landscape » IP Education With IP Street, you can: Track patents and patent applications filed by a competitorIdentify gaps in your intellectual property portfolioGain insights into potential competitive threatsIdentify inventors of any technologyFind patented technology and published applications relevant to your productsIdentify who owns the patentsAssess the quality of key patents and individual claims (beta version) Getting IP Street analytic tools is easy for Alibaba members. Alibaba is a proud sponsor of a discount for its members.
Raising Seed Capital & Finding Investors for your Business Patrick Lockton is a lawyer for digital nomads and entrepreneurs whose Matrix Law Group practices what they call Law 2.0—a flexible, on-demand, virtual legal practice—an alternative to big law firms that’s rooted in notions of mobility , technology and efficiency. One of the questions clients have for him most frequently is ‘How do I raise seed capital if I don’t know any investors?’ I know there are several of you who will one day seek funding for your big business venture, so I thought it would be of great value to get some of his expert knowledge about the early-stage and legal aspects of forming a business here (hopefully with more to come soon). Everything that follows is from Patrick– Long gone are the days of pitching investors with hot new ideas and having money thrown at you.
New Crowdsourcing Launch: AskYourUsers.com Uses LinkedIn To Help You Find People For Microconsulting Projects Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding have been two of the biggest trends to effect how businesses — especially small businesses and sole traders — raise money, with sites like Kickstarter.com and in the UK Funding Circle attracting a attention for being a great way of getting backing for projects or business ideas bypassing the traditional and expensive world of bank loans in the process. Now a site is launching that gives this model an additional twist: AskYourUsers.com is a simple service that helps you find people for microconsulting projects lasting no more than 15 minutes — and it uses your LinkedIn network to help you find them. From the demo that I have seen, the service is basically that simple, but it works very smoothly, and definitely solves a need — one that Amelia Dunne and her co-founder, Chris Bumgardner, essentially stumbled on unintentionally: Then AskYourUsers does the rest. Dunne says that she believes this might be the first to use LinkedIn to help find people. Oh and P.S.
Competitive Landscape Report Today, intellectual property and patent data is widely available, but the sources of data and the formats in which these data are presented are not practical for quickly and efficiently deriving meaningful business intelligence. Various software tools address these challenges, but typically require a specialist to extract useful information and analysis. With the aid of Ocean Tomo Ratings™ system our Strategic Analytics division offers standardized IP research reports that are packaged to deliver immediate impact. The Competitive Landscape Report contains all of the relevant information required to assess the competitiveness of a given technology in the marketplace.