This course will discuss all aspects of crowdfunding. By the end, you will know how to use crowdfunding.
Understand when to use crowdfunding (and when not to use crowdfunding).
Understand the difference between donations and equity crowdfunding
Know how to set up a crowdfunding campaign
Know how to run a crowdfunding campaign
Be able to select and use a crowdfunding platform
Know how to use copyright, trademarks and patents to protect your idea.
Know what real estate crowdfunding is
Understand the basics of the JOBS Act
Know about DC Equity Crowdfunding
Understand Title IV of the JOBS Act
Crowd·fund·ing /ˈkroudˌfəndiNG/
Is the “practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the internet.” This class reviews all aspects of crowdfunding.
- The JOBS Act’s definition of “crowdfunding,” “crowdfunding platforms,” and “emerging growth companies”
- How to get up to $1 million through crowdfunding
- The risks and rewards of taking advantage of crowdfunding
- Intellectual property protection
- Choosing a crowdfunding platform
- SEC Title IV Regulation A – how does this work?
- Indiegogo vs Kickstarter
- State-level crowdfunding
- How to stay on the right side of the law when soliciting funds
- How to identify and deal with reliable crowdfunding platforms and companies
- How businesses owned by women and minorities can raise new capital, as well as those now shut out of the capital markets (restaurants, day-care centers and others ignored by finicky venture capitalists and skittish bankers)
- How investors can identify opportunities, avoid fraud, perform due diligence, and then make an intelligent investment
- Understanding Title IV of the JOBS Act
The course is divided into five classes.
Course material include .pdf and text documents, and audio explaining the subject.
It will take five hours.
Take this course if you want to know how to create and manage a crowdfunding campaign.
All students receive a free copy of our book Top 50 Crowdfunding Campaigns: Fifty Most Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns Kindle Edition
