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More About This Title Equity Crowdfunding for Investors + Website: A Guide to Risks, Returns, Regulations, Funding Portals, Due Diligence, and Deal Terms
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Equity Crowdfunding for Investors is a comprehensive, objective, and authoritative guide to the social and financial rewards of crowdfunding. Before now, angel investing – and the spectacular returns possible in this asset class – has been off-limits to all but the wealthiest Americans. Now equity crowdfunding portals allow the general public to buy shares in startups and fast-growing private companies for the first time in generations. This book provides the guidance individuals need to invest wisely, tempering the excitement of leading-edge technology, innovative business models, and exciting new brands with thorough, practical know-how – including investor limits and requirements, portfolio strategy, deal terms, and much more. Readers will learn the pros and cons of investing in equity crowdfunding so they can make an informed investment decision, as well as best practices for finding, researching, evaluating, and buying into potentially profitable startups. Digital components include tables, graphs, comparison charts, screen captures, checklists, and other tools that further enable readers to make suitable investment choices.
Equity crowdfunding is a new, exciting, and evolving way for growing businesses to raise capital and for average investors to buy equity in those businesses. It has been hailed as a "game changer" in the private capital markets, particularly the angel investment asset class, which includes angel investing. This book shows readers how to take full advantage of this new avenue of investment, without being taken advantage of themselves.
- Make smarter investment decisions
- Avoid being ripped off
- Find the best information available
- Understand the SEC rules and limits
Equity crowdfunding can produce huge returns. It also comes with huge risk. Some companies will succeed, but many will fail. Everyday investors can mitigate some risk and increase their chance of profit with the fundamental insight provided in Equity Crowdfunding for Investors.
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DAVID M. FREEDMAN has worked as a financial and legal journalist since 1978. He has served on the editorial staff of The Value Examiner since 2005. He is coauthor of the 1987 book Death of an American, about the Singer v. Wadman civil rights lawsuit in Salt Lake City.
MATTHEW R. NUTTING practices corporate law with the firm Coleman & Horowitt in Fresno, CA, where he advises on all facets of business law, including a special emphasis in rewards-based and securities-based crowdfunding. He is a director of the National Crowdfunding Association and served as its National Legal Affairs Director. He is also the cofounder of CrowdPassage.
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Preface: The New Angel Investors xv
Definitions of Key Terms xxv
Acknowledgments xxvii
About the Authors xxix
CHAPTER 1 The Foundations of Online Crowdfunding 1
CHAPTER 2 Equity Offering Platforms (under Regulation D) 19
CHAPTER 3 Equity Crowdfunding 49
CHAPTER 4 Intrastate Equity Crowdfunding 69
CHAPTER 5 Deal Flow 81
CHAPTER 6 Angel Investors 95
CHAPTER 7 Equity Crowdfunding Portals 117
CHAPTER 8 How to Invest, Part I: Portfolio Strategy 135
CHAPTER 9 How to Invest, Part II: Identify Suitable Offerings 153
CHAPTER 10 Equity Crowdfunding Securities 163
CHAPTER 11 Deal Terms 175
CHAPTER 12 How to Invest, Part III: Due Diligence 205
CHAPTER 13 How to Invest, Part IV: Funding and Postfunding 233
CHAPTER 14 Liquidity and Secondary Markets 243
Epilogue: Trends and Innovations 253
Equity Crowdfunding Resources 255
About the Companion Website 259
Index 261
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“This is a valuable primer and authoritative guide to an industry which is still misunderstood by many” (Master Investor, November 2015)
