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Radical Personal Finance

402-How to Raise Money for your Company Without a Bank or VC! (And Perhaps Find Your Next Big Investment Winner): Interview with Nathan Rose, Author of "Equity Crowdfunding: The Complete Guide for Startups and Growing Companies"

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.2 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

If you're building a business, you may reach a point in time at which you need more money to expand your operation than you're currently receiving from your revenues.

Traditionally, this is where you would either go out and solicit more investors to back you or perhaps go and borrow money from a bank.

But, thanks to major changes in the law, there's another option now available to you: equity crowdfunding.

Equity Crowdfunding is a way for companies to solicit investments from individuals similar to how product crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, et al, solicit sales from individuals.

There are tremendous possibilities here for you as a business owner.

But, don't skip this show if you simply don't own a business.

You may be interested in this topic from the perspective of a business owner! You can participate as an investor with these companies yourself!

Enjoy the show,

Joshua

 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills,

0:06.0

insight and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building

0:10.9

a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

0:13.7

My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host and today we have Nathan Rose on the line.

0:18.0

Nathan has recently completed a book called Equity Crowdfunding, The Complete Guide for Startups and Growing Companies.

0:24.8

Nathan, welcome to the show.

0:26.4

It's great to be here Joshua and thanks for having me.

0:28.7

I'm excited about this topic because I love the world we live in where more and more money is not the limiting factor

0:37.0

to the success of a product or of a company and crowdfunding has certainly presented one tremendous technology to be able to help

0:46.0

entrepreneurs capitalize projects.

0:49.0

So I'm very excited about talking to you and hearing about some of the ideas in your book.

0:53.7

But start with a little bit of a personal introduction.

0:55.8

How did you get interested in this subject?

0:58.8

So I began my career as an investment banker.

1:02.0

Don't hold that against me. I was helping out startups and even past the

1:08.5

startup phase in fact, early stage companies do initial public offerings onto the stock market.

1:15.0

And when I saw the emergence of equity crowdfunding as being a similar skill set,

1:21.0

it's an offer of shares to the public, so you've got to do the same things about explaining

1:25.6

business models and explaining why a company is a good idea to invest in. And at the same time I wanted to branch off away from my corporate career and start my own thing.

1:36.2

It just seemed the perfect fit for my skill set and a really new interesting trend that I saw in the world of finance.

1:42.2

So you work as a consultant or what's your actual business now?

1:46.0

Yeah, I'm an agency or a consultancy, I suppose you'd call it,

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