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Название: Equity Crowdfunding for Investors

Автор: Matthew R. Nutting

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: Зарубежная образовательная литература

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isbn: 9781118857809

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СКАЧАТЬ l:href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2088298">http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2088298. The other study relied on here was Julianne Pepitone, “Why 84 % of Kickstarter's Top Projects Shipped Late,” CNNMoney.com, December 18, 2012, http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/18/technology/innovation/kickstarter-ship-delay/. This CNNMoney study focused on the 50 highest-funded Kickstarter campaigns, primarily in the technology and video game categories, with projected delivery dates of November 2012 or earlier. Only eight of those 50 projects hit their delivery deadlines.

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Mark Gibbs, “The Truth about Kickstarter and ZionEyez,” Forbes, August 20, 2012. Also Blair Hanley Frank, “Eyez: One of Kickstarter's Biggest Busts Is Trying to Come Back from the Dead,” GeekWire.com, July 12, 2013. See also the ZionEyez Kickstarter page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/zioneyez/eyeztm-by-zioneyez-hd-video-recording-glasses-for. ZionEyez or Zeyez is apparently under new leadership, including Matt Krumholz, vice chairman. The authors attempted unsuccessfully to contact Krumholz and the company through its website (www.zioneyez.com), via his LinkedIn profile, and by other means.

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Mollick, op. cit.

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Letter from Ethan Mollick to Vladimir I. Ivanov, financial economist, Office of Corporate Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, December 2012.

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Originally quoted by Adrianne Jeffries, “If You Back a Kickstarter Project That Sells for $2 Billion, Do You Deserve to Get Rich?” The Verge, March 28, 2014.

Source: Serena Saitto, “Oculus Deal Said to Deliver 20-Fold Return to Spark, Matrix,” Bloomberg News, March 26, 2014. On that same day, CircleUp announced that it had raised $14 million in venture capital from Canaan Partners and Google's venture arm.

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Most of the lists that rank crowdfunding sites do so from the point of view of entrepreneurs and business owners, not investors. An example is Forbes's “Top 1 °Crowdfunding Sites for Fundraising,” by Chance Barnett, May 8, 2013, www.forbes.com/sites/chancebarnett/2013/05/08/top-10-crowdfunding-sites-for-fundraising/.

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