32: Startup Crowdfunding with Indiegogo Co-Founder, Slava Rubin
Invest Like a Boss
Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz
4.8 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2016
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Slava Rubin is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Indiegogo. Along with his position on the Board, Slava is responsible for innovation and growth at Indiegogo. He also represented the crowdfunding industry at the White House during the signing of the JOBS Act and has played a crucial role in working with the White House and the SEC to finalize the rules and regulations for equity crowdfunding.
Slava joins us on the show to discuss Indiegogo’s new collaboration with MicroVentures and release of “equity crowdfunding”. This is huge news to the industry and game-changing events for investors looking to invest in private deals using the Indiegogo platform.
Equity Crowdfunding on Indiegogo
https://equity.indiegogo.com/
https://twitter.com/Indiegogo
Where are we:
Sam – Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
Slava – New York, New York
Discussed:
ILAB 06 - Invest in Yourself to Startup an Award Winning Brewery
ILAB 05 - Planning for Retirement
Show Notes:
06:00 - 4 reasons why people give money
07:37 - Signing the Jobs Act by President Obama
09:20 - Microventures partnership
10:43 - Investor limitations
12:19 - Creating for user base
13:55 - Applying to Indiegogo
15:00 - User participation
16:27 - Paperwork and contracts
16:55 - Tracking companies progress
17:19 - Product offering campaigns
20:00 - Non-accredited and non-US options
23:21 - Investing $300,000 in a startup
25:02 - Yearly Investment cap
27:00 - Crowfall video game
30:00 - ILAB potential startup investment
34:00 - Washington DC women's brewery
35:35 - Play and possible game ball
36:38 - Beatstars social marketplace
41:00 - Simplified Agreement for Future Equity
45:00 - Paperwork, checks and signatures
48:00 - iTunes reviews
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Invest Like a Boss podcast. I'm Sam Marks and I'm Johnny FD. We're self-made entrepreneurs who invest our own money and use modern technology to invest like a boss. |
| 0:08.8 | Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our network of modern investors, business owners and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest our hard-earned cash. |
| 0:17.2 | Hey guys and welcome to episode 32 of the Invest Like a Boss podcast. I'm Johnny FD. I'm here with Sam |
| 0:22.2 | Marks and this week I'm really excited we're going to have on the founder of the popular |
| 0:27.9 | crowdfunding platform Indiegogo that I'm sure everyone here knows about and loves. His name is going to be Salva |
| 0:34.4 | Rubin. Yeah so Slava Rubin is the chief business officer at Indigo. |
| 0:39.6 | And man, this is big news. Like everybody has been talking about this stuff. |
| 0:43.6 | Everyone wants to figure out ways to get into startup investing. And the fact that this is for |
| 0:49.1 | non-accredited investors is really exciting. So when someone that's a powerhouse like Indiago |
| 0:53.9 | gets behind equity crowdfunding, this is big news. So let someone that's a powerhouse like Indiegogo gets behind equity crowdfunding, |
| 0:56.0 | this is big news. So let's just break that down for, for, you know, if you guys maybe you didn't |
| 1:00.7 | catch it. First off, a lot of our listeners have been saying, you know, you guys are interviewing |
| 1:04.9 | all these cool new platforms, but these are only for accredited investors. So what do we do if we don't have a net worth of a million |
| 1:13.5 | dollars or we don't have $200,000 in an annual income and we can't get that accreditation? |
| 1:20.6 | We can't invest in these cool new types of fintech. What can we do? And here is something that |
| 1:27.4 | is going to be for everyone. |
| 1:28.6 | So that's really exciting. Yeah, absolutely. And we continue to find new ways for non-accredited |
| 1:33.7 | investors to invest alongside of institutions and super net wealth, wealthy individuals. |
| 1:41.8 | One cool thing that Slava did was he was actually at the White House |
| 1:45.3 | for the signing of the Jobs Act. And for those of you are not familiar with the Jobs Act, |
| 1:50.1 | it's something that we've heard a few times on this podcast now that has enabled startup |
| 1:54.9 | investing and investing in a little bit riskier assets for non-accredited investors. |
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