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Background

• 01/03/13 – The Crowd Cafe – Crowdfunding Main Street: The Genesis of a Small Business Revolution

Capital Gains

• 07/06/12 – The Atlantic – How the Richest 400 People in America Got So Rich

Creating Jobs

• 01/01/11 – SBA – Impact of Investment Capital for Growing Small Businesses and Creating Jobs
• 12/31/12  – Miami Herald – Building a case for crowdfunding
• 05/29/12 – SBA – Explore the New Frontier for Small Business Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding Platforms

• 12/28/12 – ProHatch, IPO Village Executives Share Crowdfunding Tips & Tricks
• 12/26/12 – FanBlaze set to launch January 2013

Fraud Prevention

• 10/08/12 – The Crowd Cafe – Fraud: Enough with the Rhetoric: Investment Crowdfunding Works. Here’s the Proof
• 01/01/13 – Venture Beat – Startup investing through crowdfunding— do your homework first
• 01/01/13 – CCA – How the Crowd Detects Fraud and Shows that Fears are Unfounded
• 12/11/12 – Huffington Post – Dispelling the Fears and Myths of Crowdfunding Fraud

Industry Growth

• 01/03/13 – Tech Crunch – IndieGoGo’s 2012 In Crowdfunding: Campaigns Raised 20% More Than In 2011, With Shorter Funding Periods
• 01/02/13 – City A.M. – Crowdfunding set to skyrocket in new year
• 12/31/12 – Tech Crunch – 2012: The Year Crowdfunding Was Kickstarted Into The Mainstream
• 12/31/12 – Crowdfund Insider – Crowdfunding and 506 Private Placements Expected to Grow to $2.8 Billion
• 12/28/12 – BetaBeat – The U.K. Already Has Equity-Based Crowdfunding, and This Startup Just Set a Record
• 12/27/12 – Kauffman Foundation – America’s Highest Growth Companies by Industry and Region
• 12/24/12 – Venture Beat – Unlocking the global trillion-dollar crowdfunding market
• 12/24/12 – EarlyShares – How Big will Equity Crowdfunding Industry Become in 2013

Industry Leaders

• 12/28/12 – Crowdfund Insider – Top 5 Equity Crowdfunding Sites Going Into 2013

Marketing

• 04/16/13 – CPC  – Five Tips on How to Get Great Publicity for Crowdfunding PR Campaigns
• 04/24/13 – CPC – Top 10 Marketing Programs that Crowdfunding Platforms
• 05/04/13 – CPC – Top 10 Crowdfunding PR Tips for Fundraising Campaigns, Platforms and Websites

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