Join us for a 2 hour interactive presentation and discussion for entrepreneurs, designers, activists, artists, innovators, and anyone who wants to make their idea reality.
Serial entrepreneur and crowd-funding expert, Jason Best, will demystify the world of crowdfunding and share his top tips for success by taking you through the 3 phases of crowdfunding: pre-launch activities, during the live campaign, and post-campaign activities. Find out how for-profit crowdfunding can differ from non-profit crowdfunding…and how they can be similar. Learn to discern if crowdfunding is the best approach for your idea and find out how other markets are using crowdfunding.
As co-founder and principal of Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA), Jason Best co-authored the crowdfund investing framework used in the JOBS Act to legalize equity and debt based crowdfunding in the USA. He has provided congressional testimony on crowdfunding and was honored to attend the White House ceremony when President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law on April 5, 2012. Jason co-founded the crowdfunding industry trade group that works with the Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA as they create the rules for crowdfund investing. Jason also works with angel groups, PE/VC firms as well as governments and NGOs, including The World Bank, to understand the crowdfunding ecosystem and create successful crowdfund investing strategies. He was instrumental in the successful effort to have CCA selected by the US State Department’s Global Entrepreneurship Program as a Key Partner.
Jason has spoken at The White House, South by Southwest, TEDx, the World Bank’s Global Forum on Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship and the Angel Capital Association. He is co-author of the Crowdfund Investing for Dummies book (published by Wiley), a contributor to TechCrunch and Venture Beat and has appeared in Fast Company, Bloomberg Markets and on CNN. Forbes.com ranked Jason as one of the 10 most influential people in crowdfunding.
This event will be in English with simultaneous translation into Ukrainian.
Remember to bring your passport or driver's license.
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