Media and Video Coverage of Crowdfunding Event

Did you miss the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship’s Sept. 20 event on crowdfunding? Here is a short video of event highlights.

Here is a recap of the event from three websites.

The Bergen Record’s Andrew Wyrich wrote a report of the event, quoting Zak Cassady-Dorion, a partner at Crowdfund Capital Advisors and the event’s keynote speaker: “What we are seeing is large amounts of people giving small amounts of money to make something bigger.” The Record’s report quoted Kim Wales, founder of Wales Capital, about Title II of the JOBS Act’s impact on local communities: “Crowdfunding allows you to tap into the community and allows people to put their money into where they live and breathe.”

In NJBIZ’s story by Tom Zanki, Startup Valley Founder and CEO Daryl Bryant said coming changes to crowdfunding from the JOBS Act will be “a game changer.” “Instead of companies pitching to five potential shareholders, we now have the potential to pitch to hundreds and thousands of investors,” said Bryant, a 2000 Montclair State alumnus and the moderator of the panel at the Sept. 20 event at the University Hall conference center. Panelist Douglas Ellenoff, a member of Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole LLP, said there is a contained risk in crowdfunding. “That’s what investment is. Are we going to shut down public markets because of MF Global? I don’t buy that,” Ellenoff said in the NJBIZ story. Panelist Jonathan Sandlund, founder of CrowdCafe.com, said, “It is incredibly difficult to fraud somebody when everything you’re doing is transparent.”

Read the full NJBIZ story.

Esther Surden of New Jersey Tech Weekly noted in her story how Cassady-Dorion and his partners knocked on the door of every member of Congress while advocating for the bill. “We found that at a time when there were no jobs and capital was not flowing, if you come up with an actual solution, people will listen,” Cassady-Dorion told the audience, explaining he and his partners participated in congressional hearings, and after 400 days the framework, with modifications, was passed as law.

Read the full New Jersey Tech Weekly story.

Keep current on Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship events by visiting our events page. Another way to track our events is to join our Meetup group, Montclair State Entrepreneurship. Follow us on Twitter @FelicianoCenter for live tweets from events and the latest news on the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship. Our Facebook page also provides updates about the center.

Did you miss the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship’s Sept. 20 event on crowdfunding? Here is a short video of event highlights.

The Bergen Record’s Andrew Wyrich wrote a report of the event, quoting Zak Cassady-Dorion, a partner at Crowdfund Capital Advisors and the event’s keynote speaker: “What we are seeing is large amounts of people giving small amounts of money to make something bigger.” The Record’s report quoted Kim Wales, founder of Wales Capital, about Title II of the JOBS Act’s impact on local communities: “Crowdfunding allows you to tap into the community and allows people to put their money into where they live and breathe.”

In NJBIZ’s story by Tom Zanki, Startup Valley Founder and CEO Daryl Bryant said coming changes to crowdfunding from the JOBS Act will be “a game changer.” “Instead of companies pitching to five potential shareholders, we now have the potential to pitch to hundreds and thousands of investors,” said Bryant, a 2000 Montclair State alumnus and the moderator of the panel at the Sept. 20 event at the University Hall conference center. Panelist Douglas Ellenoff, a member of Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole LLP, said there is a contained risk in crowdfunding. “That’s what investment is. Are we going to shut down public markets because of MF Global? I don’t buy that,” Ellenoff said in the NJBIZ story. Panelist Jonathan Sandlund, founder of CrowdCafe.com, said, “It is incredibly difficult to fraud somebody when everything you’re doing is transparent.”

Esther Surden of New Jersey Tech Weekly noted in her story how Cassady-Dorion and his partners knocked on the door of every member of Congress while advocating for the bill. “We found that at a time when there were no jobs and capital was not flowing, if you come up with an actual solution, people will listen,” Cassady-Dorion told the audience, explaining he and his partners participated in congressional hearings, and after 400 days the framework, with modifications, was passed as law.

“What we are seeing is large amounts of people giving small amounts of money to make something bigger.”

Keep current on Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship events by visiting our events page. Another way to track our events is to join our Meetup group, Montclair State Entrepreneurship. Follow us on Twitter @FelicianoCenter for live tweets from events and the latest news on the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship. Our Facebook page also provides updates about the center.

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