The Big New Crowdfunding Vehicle for Startups Is a Bit of a Flop So Far
Originally published in Entrepreneur Magazine By Douglas Fink On May 16, the latest stage of the 2012 JOBS Act took effect, but the expected gusher proved…
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You, Too, Can Be a Venture Capitalist. Now What?
Originally published in The Street By Douglas Fink Regular mom and pop investors often complain that they cannot invest early in disruptive companies, and that…
What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Crowd Finance
Originally published in Entrepreneur Magazine By Douglas Fink Could Elio Motors, a maker of a quirky three-wheeled car, be the model for the future of corporate finance?…
Treating the healthcare issue with tech
Originally published in TechCrunch By Florence Comite, MD The healthcare industry, with its maddening inefficiencies and an economic model that incentivizes disease care over health care, desperately…
Natural Foods Industry Growing Wild in Boulder
Originally published in The Boulder Daily Camera By Carol Frank Boulder is fast becoming known as a town that wants to feed the world —…
It’s the Year of Crowdfunding—How Will It Work?
Originally published in Middle Market Growth By Douglas Fink This year Main Street investors will finally have the opportunity to get in early on what…
Better, Stronger, Faster: Why Nootropics Will Be Big Business In 2016
Originally published in Forbes By Mike Montgomery Depending on whose numbers you believe, the U.S. supplement industry is either a $12 billion or a $37 billion industry. That’s…
New Rules Will Help Crowd Financing Take Off in 2016
Originally published in The Street By Douglas Fink In 2016, crowd financing will become big business for small- and medium-sized companies. But tech-start-up unicorns? Not so…
What Theranos and 23andMe teach us
Originally published in PE Hub By Florence Comite, MD Whether it’s Uber transforming the taxi and limousine business or Airbnb shaking up hospitality, we have become used to upstarts disrupting…
New Crowd-Funding Rules Create Opportunities, Risks for Investors
Originally published in The Street By Douglas Fink On Halloween, the SEC finalized long-awaited rules that will allow non-accredited investors to buy shares of privately held companies…