The crowdfunding handbook : raise money for your small business or start-up with equity funding portals / Cliff Ennico.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ennico, Clifford R., author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crowd funding.

Venture capital.

New business enterprises--Finance.

New business enterprises.

Small business--Finance.

Small business.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 265 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

2015.

New York : AMACOM, American Management Association, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Jobs (JOBS) Act into law, a groundbreaking piece of legislation that empowers privately owned companies to use crowdfunding for the purpose of raising capital. When the SEC hands down its final regulations later this year, the floodgates will open and companies will be free to compete for funding. The Crowdfunding Handbook explains the JOBS Act and translates SEC regulations into a clear set of dos and don'ts for entrepreneurs and small business owners looking to get into equity crowdfunding early-and do it right.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; The Road Map: Where to Find Detailed Discussion of Regulation Crowdfunding; PART 1 THE BASICS OF CROWDFUNDING; Chapter 1. What Is Crowdfunding?; Taking the Friends-and-Family Offering to the Next Level; The Different Types of Crowdfunding; Who Should Be Reading This Book?; Where This Book Will Take You; Chapter 2. The Evolution of Crowdfunding; The Friends-and-Family Offering; Intermediate Steps: Microlending and Peer-to-Peer Lending; The Social Media Revolution; Kickstarter.com and Project Crowdfunding; Angel Investor Social Media Websites

Intrastate Crowdfunding Under State LawSocial Media Crowdfunding (Title III Crowdfunding); A Brief Overview of Crowdfunding Under Title III of the JOBS Act and Regulation Crowdfunding; PART 2 LAUNCHING A SUCCESSFUL TITLE III CROWDFUNDED OFFERING, STEP BY STEP; Chapter 3. Is Crowdfunding Right for Your Company?; Crowdfunding Is Not for Everyone; Is Your Company Right for Crowdfunding?; Qualifying Under the JOBS Act and Regulation Crowdfunding; Handling Your Crowd of Investors If the Offering Is Successful; Chapter 4. Preparing Your Company for a Crowdfunded Offering

Choose the Right Legal EntityDecide Where to Incorporate, or Consider Reincorporating Somewhere Else; What Type of Security Will You Be Offering?; Amend Your Articles of Incorporation to Create a Separate Class of Shares for Your Crowdfunded Offering; Set Your Offering Amount and Determine the Dilution for Existing Investors; Prepare a Term Sheet for the Offering; Get Your Management Team and Initial Investors On Board; Chapter 5. Launching Your Crowdfunded Offering; Finding the Help You Need; Preparing Your Disclosure Documents; Finding the Right Funding Portal for Your Offering

Setting the Offering Schedule and the Minimum/Maximum AmountsChapter 6. Managing and Marketing Your Crowdfunded Offering; Your Offering Announcement: Where It Should Go, Where It Can't Go; Advertising and Promoting Your Offering on the Funding Portal; Advertising and Promoting Your Offering Elsewhere; Can the Funding Portal Help You Advertise Your Offering?; Updating or Changing Your Offering Documents Midoffering; What If You Made a Mistake in Your Offering Documents?; Closing Your Offering Early, or Quitting While You're Ahead; Filing Progress Reports with the SEC: Form C-U

Chapter 7. After Your Successful Crowdfunded Offering Is CompletedGetting Your Money from the Funding Portal; Issuing Your Securities to Investors; Complying with State Blue-Sky Laws; Creating a Stock Transfer Ledger; Updating Your Capitalization Table; Filing Your Annual Reports and Holding Your Annual Shareholders Meeting; Making Sure Your Company Doesn't Get Too Big; PART 3 COMMUNICATING WITH YOUR CROWD; Chapter 8. Keeping Your Crowd Under Control; Coping with Your New Partners; Developing a Shareholder Communication Program; Dealing with Time Vampires, Mata Haris, and Know-It-Alls

When You Have to Change Your Business Plan

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814433614

0814433618

OCLC:

958096428