Tag: Podcast

Is Australia moving fast enough? OurCrowd’s Danna Mann on ABC Radio National

An estimated $8-billion was crowdfunded last year globally and interest is surging. But is Australia moving fast enough? On her recent trip to Austrlia, OurCrowd’s Partner and Head of Investor Relations, Danna Hochstein Mann, was interviewed by radio presenter Geraldine Doogue on ABC Radio National’s “Saturday Extra” (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). In the interview, Danna discusses equity crowdfunding, investment opportunities in startups, and Australia’s role in the global market. Crowdsourcing equity to help entrepreneurs grow their business is rapidly taking off. Social technology platforms in particular are making it easier to raise equity capital. But are Australian investors and regulators keeping up? . Listen to the full interview on ABC Radio National below or here. . Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s RN program Saturday Extra with Geraldine...

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This Week in Crowdfunding: Is Crowdfunding the Perfect Way to Invest in Medical Tech? With Jared Iverson of Healthfundr

This Week in Crowdfunding is a newly launched podcast series hosted by OurCrowd’s Zack Miller and David Stark, where they cover the best in Crowdfunding with a frank — and educational — discussion about the issues surrounding Crowdfunding. Every week, they interview successful entrepreneurs, deconstruct campaigns, and hear from the smartest people around on this transformative, massive financing trend. Sign up to listen to the podcast on iTunes * Sticher * SoundCloud!  ——————————————— On this week of the TWiC, Jared Iverson, the co-founder and CEO of Healthfundr joins hosts, Zack Miller and David Stark, to discuss equity crowdfunding for health-related startups. In particular, pay close attention to some of the innovations Healthfundr has developed to help investors better informed investment decisions and how experts can influence this. Listen to the FULL...

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This Week In Crowdfunding: The 4 Myths Of Equity Crowdfunding (And Why They’re Wrong)

This Week in Crowdfunding is a newly launched podcast series hosted by OurCrowd’s Zack Miller and David Stark, where they cover the best in Crowdfunding with a frank — and educational — discussion about the issues surrounding Crowdfunding. Every week, they interview successful entrepreneurs, deconstruct campaigns, and hear from the smartest people around on this transformative, massive financing trend. Sign up to listen to the podcast on iTunes * Sticher * SoundCloud!  ——————————————— Equity crowdfunding is probably the newest form of crowdfunding, Kickstarter and Indiegogo’s little brother. But the momentum is there — OurCrowd estimated that upwards of $700M would be invested via equity crowdfunding during 2014. While thousands of investors have taken to equity crowdfunding platforms, there is a lot of runway for new investors to embrace crowd investing. In this week’s episode of TWiC, hosts Zack Miller and David Stark explore (and bust) 4 myths of equity crowdfunding. Listen to the FULL...

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This Week In Crowdfunding: Reddit gets into crowdfunding (and so do Gates and Zuckerberg)

This Week in Crowdfunding is a newly launched podcast series hosted by OurCrowd’s Zack Miller and David Stark, where they cover the best in Crowdfunding with a frank — and educational — discussion about the issues surrounding Crowdfunding. Every week, they interview successful entrepreneurs, deconstruct campaigns, and hear from the smartest people around on this transformative, massive financing trend. Sign up to listen to the podcast on iTunes * Sticher * SoundCloud!  ——————————————— On this week’s TWiC, hosts Zack Miller and David Stark look at Reddit’s recent moves into crowdfunding and about the recent Indiegogo campaign, Hour of Code. Backed by tech entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, this crowdfunding project aims to train 10,000 teachers to teach 10 million students about computer science. Watson on Crowdfunding wows us with another amazing fact about crowdfunding. Listen to the FULL episode Resources mentioned in the podcast Reddit launches Redditmade An Hour of Code for every...

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Angel Investing: How Big and Disruptive? [Podcast]

On October 24, 2014, Lou Kerner’s The Disruptive Technologies Speaker Series hosted three thought leaders on the current state and future direction of Angel Investing: Gil Penchina Largest Syndicate on AngelList Jon Medved Founder & CEO, OurCrowd Brian Cohen Chairman, New York Angels Like every other industry, venture capital is ripe for massive disruption. An Angel has been described as “an investor who provides financial backing for small startups or entrepreneurs, usually found among an entrepreneur’s family and friends”. That definition is now outdated, driven by the rise of platforms like AngelList, OurCrowd, and SeedInvest; and the increasing scale of groups like the New York Angels and Tech Coast Angels. And Angel Investing is no longer just for seed rounds. Life360, a mobile app for staying connected with family members, is raising $500k of a $50M Series C on AngleList, where the leading syndicators (like Gil Penchina) are “backed” by over 500 investors that can combine for over $4M in any one deal. The OurCrowd platform has raised over $65M for 50 companies the past two years, including $3.3M for ReWalk. The last...

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