
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

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