Equity Crowdfunding in Australia - a second chance to get it right!
The passage of the "Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced funding) Bill 2015" (i.e. Equity Crowdfunding) has been put on hold/ cancelled ahead of the upcoming federal election.
Whilst at first glance this would appear to be very disappointing- looking deeper at what the Bill actually contained I'm actually not sure that its' cancellation is a bad thing.
My primary misgivings with the original proposal is that it would appear that the drafters' were simply trying to replic
Equity co-investment (What is it ?)
In a nutshell equity co-investment is a way of obtaining the expertise and skills of experienced business and finance professionals without having to dip into your cash reserves AND is designed for those businesses where the:-
Great story, vision and passion are there..... BUT the cash-flow isn’t.
Rather than needing to expend your precious cash resources hiring consultants or paying for (and attending) external courses and hiring mentors CFOCorp and our CFO’s are willing
Do you know who is logged onto your Linked-in?
As most users would be aware a few weeks ago Linked-in announced that they had suffered a data breach, and that as many at 117 million users' passwords may have been stolen.
At the time it was recommended that users change their passwords. StartFragment Well like greased lightning I got onto it....four weeks later.
But more interestingly when I was going into "Privacy & Settings" to change my password I also saw a setting/option called "Where you're signed in" and the numb
The 2 things that START-UPs need ….and how we can help.
Having helped and worked with many businesses over the years I have spoken with and listened to a number of Entrepreneurs and Founders of Start-ups, and invariably they state that the two things that they need the most in the early stages are:- StartFragment Money / Funding to get the project off the ground Help to actually pull the project together and create the business plans, projections and proposals necessary to attract investment. BUT - to date it has been almost impos
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