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Top 10 Venture Capitalists - Accredited Investor Markets 2018


I recently had the luck to work with the following publications to release research on Top Venture Capital Fund Managers and what goes into their ranking models or algorithms. Below is just a summary…

Investing in Startups While You're Running


*Updated as of November 1, 2016 Running down the road you stop to change the song and in those same few seconds invest in the app your listening to your music. Is it that easy? Is that going to be a…

Propel(x) research

Three Things That Matter Most To Angel Investors on Portals


"Angel investors are at the vanguard of funding true innovation" states Propel(x) an online investing platform. A survey the firm recently released provides a new approach to help cut through the…

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Online Venture Investing Data and Analytics 2014 to 2015


A year after we produced our first report covering 2014 we review insights from our research and analytics covering online investing portals to collect further feedback and find additional partners…

Venture Performance Data - General Soliciation

Fund Managers Performance Leveraging General Solicitation


The hedge fund industry has grown to $3 trillion without any advertising. The methods these money managers have been using to attract investors to their funds and the results they have had may be…

Venture Capital Slow to Embrace Online Funding Portals


Angel Investors like Gil Penchina are achieving massive success utilizing funding portals like Angel List. Which Venture Capital firm will be the first to recieve this same sort of notoriety? We…

Convertible Notes for Online Startup Investing


"Over the past two years, there has been an explosion of the use of convertible notes for seed rounds" states James Geshwiler of Common Angels a local firm in Boston. Convertible Debt or Convertible…

Crowdfunding Rules-Regulaiton A+


Regulation A+ will have little impact leaving most entrepreneurs waiting for additional laws to be passed. The JOBS Act Title II passing in April 2012 inspired the online investing in startups, but…

Alixe Cormick Equity Crowdfunding Legal Advisory

Legal and Tax Implications - Venture Investing with Portals


JOBS Acts Title III that allows non-accredited investors to involve into equity crowdfunding didn't pass in 2014, and was expected to extend to 2016. In order to eliminate the confusions about equity…

Cash Crowd Show


Cash Crowd was a flop. The show was to be a series on CNBC whose objective is to present live crowdfunding opportunities to accredited investors. There is only one episode since October 2014. On the…