Crowd Funding

What is crowd funding? It is essentially Venture Capital for the masses. New federal laws will soon make it easier for businesses to raise money by offering an ownership interest, or equity, to small investors who pool their money to buy a specified percentage of the stock in the offering company. An article in today’s Wall Street Journal offers some tips to companies planning to raise capital by utilizing this relatively new technique. We are interested to hear if you would be willing to invest in stocks this way.