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ANYONE HAS ANY EXPERIENCE IN CROWDFUNDING?

Recently our team is planning to launch a crowdfunding, however, never try crowdfunding before, wondering if there's any advice?

Including the marketing strategy, our team actually is preparing for crowdfunding to reach the goal in the first day launch!
We've developed our facebook fanpage, Instagram and the Website, not sure if there's anything we can do to reach more crowds.

Any insight is welcome! Thanks

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professional Florida International University - College of Business - 04/03/2021

In my research, the best entry way is to do a Reg CF and then progress to Reg A+. Other ways include Reg D. There are tons of options, but here is a link to Reg CF. I hope it helps. https://www.dalmorefg.com/directcf Finally some books I recommend include The Crowdfunding Myth and Equity Crowdfunding by Nathan Rose.

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investor University of Rochester - William E. Simon Graduate School of Business - 04/03/2021

Do you have any information you can offer that compares and contrasts those 3 (A/CF/D). Also, any thoughts on their appropriateness in this space? Thank you.

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professional William Mitchell College of Law University of St. Thomas, St. Paul - 04/04/2021

Hi ^[redacted]‌, I would be happy to send you a chart that compares the three (and others) if you would like.

Crowdfunding requires a crowd, i.e., investors who care. You can do all the legal work, marketing etc..., but if you cannot find the crowd that wants to invest it won’t work. It’s pretty uncommon (though it does happen) that an unaffiliated crowd just appears to invest. Usually crowds are based on existing networks and extensions of those networks.

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admin Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT Sloan School of Management Taylor University Stanford University - Graduate School of Business - 04/03/2021

^[redacted]‌ - Crowdfunding is a little outside the scope of Searchfunder. Can you please provide more information about what you are trying to crowdsource?

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searcher Hofstra University - 04/03/2021

We are in the final stages of creating a fund (should be launched later in April) and developed a web application to manage the funding process and moving of capital. Our fund is a note fund as it directly relates to the Real Estate Investor loans we have been originating for years.

This advice is from my perspective as having recently gone through this process. Always have a Securities lawyer confirm before going down any of these paths. It would be really helpful if you can provide s

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searcher University of Denver - Daniels College of Business University of Denver - 04/04/2021

I ran a successful crowdfunding campaign for a consumer product a few years ago. It's all about 'priming the pump' and having people ready to buy before it goes live. Emails of friends and supporters were much more effective than social media just FYI. My best advice is follow this detailed post from Tim Ferris' website: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/why-private-capital-and-crowdfunding[redacted]/

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searcher National University of Ireland, Galway Cork Institute of Technology - 04/05/2021

I think there is confusion here on whether it is crowd funding via a product launch or a crowd funded equity raise. The same term is use for both and both generate funding, but the mechanism is very different. One difference is that crowdfunded product is best (exclusively?) for B2C and crowdfunded equity raise works better for B2B businesses (at last according to https://wefunder.com/ .)

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