“Who are these companies raising money online?” read the email in my inbox yesterday. “Can’t they raise money the old-fashioned way?”
Over the last few weeks, we’ve received several emails at Crowdability asking similar questions.
It seems some of our members have concerns about the quality of start-ups on crowdfunding…
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The cheerful stewardess on my red-eye to Argentina was delivering her pre-flight speech. Her soothing voice washed over me as I sat in a window seat, reading a business plan for a technology start-up on my laptop.
“There are 10 emergency exits on this Boeing 777 aircraft: 4 in the…
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Last Thursday morning, as I was browsing headlines on The New York Times, I saw an article entitled, “Which Start-Up Could Be the Next Big Thing?”
That’s a serious newspaper and an exciting topic. Coffee in my left hand, mouse in my right, I clicked on through.
After the author…
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Few things are certain in this world; few things are actually guaranteed.
Ben Franklin famously put death and taxes on his list. But on a sunny summer day in August, I’m not so interested in addressing those dreary topics.
Guaranteed money, on the other hand — now there’s something that…
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Remember a game called “Follow the Leader” from when you were a kid?
One kid, the leader, would stand up at the head of a line. He’d touch his nose, zig and zag, click his heels. Everyone else would have to copy what he did.
If…
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