When you want to dive deep into the effectiveness of crowdfunding, you go to the guys who wrote the book on it – or at least helped in getting the legislation passed. In this podcast, Woodie Neiss, a partner at Crowdfund Capital Advisors, explains how his company is taking a data-driven approach to equity crowdfunding and explains how investor sentiment has taken crowdfunding from a unknown concept to a $2.5 billion dollar industry!
Listen to “Crowdfunding From A Data Driven Perspective” on Spreaker.
Crowdfund Capital Advisors delivers strategic insights to government agencies, financial institutions, regulators and multilateral organizations seeking to both create and implement innovative strategies to utilize crowdfund investing technologies to drive innovation, job creation and entrepreneurship.
Listen to this podcast as Mr. Neiss talks about how he has created a database on every single company that’s raising money online via equity crowdfunding and the impact AI will have in the future – and that includes all the different options these companies have at their exposure thanks to the Jobs Act.
Why is this important? Because there are thousands of companies going the crowdfunding route and before his research, there really wasn’t any source that accurately measured the digital footprint that goes into these offerings. With so many offerings, what should investors be looking at? Now you know!
Go to Shop.CClear.ai to access the documents tailored to the investment community that Woodie references on the show. And if you’re concerned about liquidity, don’t forget to visit his secondary markets website at www.guardd.com! He also has a Venture Fund which you may be interested in here!
ABOUT OUR GUEST: Sherwood “Woodie” Neiss
Sherwood Neiss, is a Principal at Crowdfund Capital Advisors and a Partner at Crowd Capital Ventures. He is an expert at building successful businesses. As a 3-time INC500 winner whose former company won E&Y’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Sherwood understands the keys to entrepreneurial success from concept to company to sale.
As a serial entrepreneur and investor during the credit crunch, Sherwood saw a need for a change in outdated securities laws and did something about it. As a co-founding member of Startup Exemption, Sherwood co-authored the Crowdfunding Framework used in the JOBS Act that was signed into law by President Obama on April 5, 2012.
Within Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA), Sherwood works with clients ranging from governments and banks that are looking for ways to boost economic development in their countries to investment firms looking for access to increased deal flow that crowdfunding creates. At Crowd Capital Ventures (CCVF), Sherwood researches, analyses and invests in promising FinTech companies focusing on all sectors of the crowdfunding market. Sherwood serves as an advisor to several crowdfunding platforms and crowdfunding technologies giving him a unique understanding and view of the industry and market. As an industry leader, Sherwood contributes to several publications including VentureBeat and TechCrunch. He additionally co-authored Crowdfund Investing for Dummies through Wiley & Son’s as well as the World Bank Report Crowdfunding’s Potential for the Developing World.
Sherwood co-founded Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA) and the Crowdfunding Professional Association (CPA), and served as Governing Board Member and co-chair where he led the fight to ensure investors are protected while entrepreneurs have access to the capital they need to start and grow promising companies.
An avid public speaker, Sherwood speaks at universities and seminars around the world discussing crowdfund investing, what it takes to be an entrepreneur and how to build winning companies. He also does a large amount of work presenting to government bodies, speaking in front of the U.S. Congress, leading SEC and FINRA meetings, as well as, addressing foreign governments, testifying about how they can bring economic benefits to their citizenry through implementing their CCA’s Crowdfund Investment Framework.
Sherwood started his post-MBA career on Wall Street and moved to Silicon Valley where he completed personal and financial goals in his late 20’s he hoped to obtain in his 30’s. Wondering what to do next and also left struggling with a debilitating family dilemma, he used his entrepreneurial drive to help turn his family adversity into a multi-million-dollar company that today is helping millions of sick children, animals and adults get better by being more compliant with their medicines.
As the co-founder of FLAVORx (www.flavorx.com), Sherwood structured an approach and built a business model that threw off millions of dollars in cash while growing the business from one pharmacy to over 80% of the pharmacies in the United States. He raised millions of dollars in capital and saw the culmination of his endeavors with the sale of the company in 2007.
When not working, Sherwood is an avid traveler. He lived in Japan for a year and post-sale of FLAVORx took his second backpacking trip around the world. In addition to speaking at universities and businesses around the country he invests in real estate in the U.S. and Brazil, is part of a private equity group in Los Angeles, is working on a clean tech project in Puerto Rico and is involved with several other start-up ventures.
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