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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors, is still not legal in the U.S., despite having been passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability, waiting for the rules to be finalized by the SEC. Product pre-order model. In the U.S.,

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Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The newest equity model was passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability in the USA, waiting for the rules to be defined by the SEC: Startup equity crowd funding. There is no concept of ROI other than product. Kickstarter is the big player in this space.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch. This team is talented.

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Why The Growth Of The Internet Is Driving EdgeCast's Revenues

socalTECH

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

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Carving An Internet Niche With FamousBirthdays.com

socalTECH

So, at the beginning of 2012, we picked a website that we owned, to make it awesome. We also sold one of our largest sites to a private equity firm in the real estate niche, and narrowed our focus down to FamousBirthdays.com. We never have to worry about monetization, and outsource that to Google. Our revenue is solid.

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