The past, present, and future of crowdfunding — Harvard Business School style

It’s been almost 20 years since the last time I was  at Harvard. I had spent most of my undergraduate degree running up and down the campus trying to make it in time to my economics classes. Earlier this month, through my role at OurCrowd, I had the opportunity to revisit the campus and go back to school, so to say. On December 4th 2013, I participated in a crowdfunding panel at the Harvard Business School Association of Boston (see the event link here). In light of recent developments int he crowdfunding field, HBS has organized a series of events to discuss the various aspects, implications and issues concerning the crowdfunding market today. The panel was moderated by Daniel Gorfine of the Milken Institute. The slides below are his and were presented at the event. Daniel is one of the foremost analysts on the ecosystem evolving around crowdfunding and the great discussion that ensued was evidence of his expertise. Crowdfunding Panel at Harvard Business School (Dec 4, 2013) from OurCrowd Represented on the crowdfunding panel were OurCrowd (equity crowdfunding), Fundrise...

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