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Who Accepts Bitcoin?

Bitcoin, Blockchain, Crypto … I’m a huge advocate and fan. But are they merely the shiny “new” things for techies, early adopters and speculators? It’s easy for pundits, skeptics and cynics to deride Bitcoin as an impractical fad: A danger to society and unsuspecting victims. Then again, isn’t that what

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Crowdfunding Fraud: How Big is the Threat?

Last week I published an article, written with Crowdfund Insider director and editor Charles Luzar on the subject of fraud in crowdfunding:  Crowdfunding Fraud: How Big is the Threat?  We researched and gathered data from hundreds of crowdfunding campaigns to get a sense of the scope of fraud and potential

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Business

Bad News for Arizona Entrepreneurs?

    Ordinarily it takes an act of God to make me spill a drop of my morning coffee, but reading the news this morning nearly caused a grand-mal seizure: “Jilted Kickstarter Backer Neil Singh Is Now An Assistant Attorney General Of Arizona”   My first, second and third reaction

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Crowdfunding – Five Big things

(Originally published as a Guest Blog on CX.com  on December 11, 2012)  Crowdfunding. You’ve heard of it — sexy projects by entrepreneurs who buck the establishment by going directly to the public for funding. Or maybe you’ve heard of the other crowdfunding — fraud, deceit and boiler room brokers bilking

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Interview at Arizona Innovation Summit

  After I spoke about Crowdfunding:  Past, Present and Future, at the Arizona Innovation Summit, FunditTV decided to conduct a video interview.   During the interview, I talk a bit about my new Crowdfunding initiative, called Propel Arizona.

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Crowdfunding – The Storm Begins

In 2011 “Crowdfunding” matured from a method to collect donations for small creative projects, to a formidable new way of investing in startups.  Battleground 2012 is about whether the US should update its antiquated securities laws to allow for Crowdfunding new entrepreneurial  companies. .

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Crowdfunding – The Calm Before the Storm

1. Crowdfunding Grows Up: 2011 was the year that crowdfunding matured, went pro and on the cusp of mainstream.   In prior years, crowdfunding sites were viewed as the only way starving artists and entrepreneurial mistfits could ‘pass the hat’  and get funded – mainly by other altruistic and curious misfits. Crowdfunding sites were derided by traditionalists 

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The Fallacy Against Crowdfunding

Recently Entrepreneur.com (the website for Entrepreneur Magazine) posted an opinion piece called: Why Crowdfunding is Bad for Business I encourage you to read the article in full. But I must say, I found the argument misinformed, to be kind. More bluntly – the argument and article were condescending, amateurish, and uninformed.

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