How to Raise Capital: Perfecting the Pitch
Having a great presentation deck can make a huge impact on a business, especially if the presenter is a killer entrepreneur that can sell the room. However, the...
What to Look for When Investing in Startups
If you want a safe bet with little risk, investing your money is easy. Just buy Treasury bonds. They carry practically no risk and are guaranteed by the...
How Crowdfunding Is Disrupting VCs
In May this year, we celebrated the two-year anniversary of Regulation Crowdfunding. In its first year, 335 companies raised more than $40 million in capital, averaging $282,000 from 312...
What to Know Before Going Into Venture Debt
Entrepreneurs who are lucky enough to receive funding from a Venture Capital firm are eligible for a double whammy: Venture Debt. This obscure form of funding isn’t even tracked by...
Why Entrepreneurs Will Turn to the Crowd For Funding
I believe that every entrepreneur should have access to capital and that every entrepreneur should be able to raise capital on their own terms regardless of geographic location,...
A Global Financial System with Hoskinson: “We Are Only as Good as the Tools We Have”
The doors opened, and attendees flooded back into the room to catch the closing keynote of the StartEngine Summit: Charles Hoskinson, founding member of Ethereum and founder of...
Introducing a New Standard for Digital Stock Certificates: ERC-1450
It is clear by now that one of the most important revolutions brought about by blockchain technology will be the digitization of the world: transforming assets into tokens...
You Can Now Use Bitcoin to Invest in Securities for Real
A lot of people may not find it a big deal when they hear that it is now possible to use Bitcoin as a form of payment for...
The StartEngine Index: June 2017
*Revised at 11:30 AM PT on July, 11 2017. June 2017 Here come the fireworks. The following data covers Regulation Crowdfunding raises between May 16, 2016, and June...
The IPO is Dead. Long live the OPO!
It is well known that Wall Street really serves the people in the know. What it should be is a free market where all of the information about...