Guides

Explore crowdfunding platform challenges with Konstantin. Recently, we conducted a research among crowdfunding platforms, you'll be surprised to know what we found out.

While scams are typically associated with reward and donation-based crowdfunding, debt and equity are no exception. In today's episode, Yana Geyeva will go over the top 5 scams that we think are most commonly seen and how you can avoid being labelled a scam/scammer.

While the SEC keeps simplifying and harmonizing the set of rules to benefit every party -- platforms, fundraisers, and investors, sometimes it's a bit hard to keep up. Anton Galaguz elaborates on how the SEC regulates exempt offerings, particularly Reg A.

According to our most recent study, Konstantin shares, having a mobile app is one of the top 3 features desired by crowdfunding platforms. In his experience, he has a set of criteria that needs to be met before allocating the time, budget, and resources to build out a mobile application.

Sukuk is a shariah-compliant Islamic financial certificate that has a unique structure, but in multiple sources is compared to a bond. Sukuk is not a debt obligation but it represents an ownership interest in a pool of assets. However, the investors don’t receive interest. Instead, they get a portion of revenues generated by the assets.

In this video, we are looking at a US-based real estate crowdfunding platform - CrowdStreet. The platform has a robust investor dashboard which allows investors to analyze offerings from different angles and conduct due dilligence.

Did you know that crowdfunding can be beneficial internally? There are many companies doing this already and we're sure you know at least one: IBM, Sony, Enel, Bose, Siemens, and Shell. It's helpful in improving innovation management, prototyping, and strengthening corporate culture.

Does incorporating blockchain in crowdfunding add value or is it just about the hype? In today's short series, Konstantin talks about the survey that is soon to be released, where he'd asked multiple European crowdfunding platforms on their thoughts about blockchain.