Investment Crowdfunding: The Future or a Flop?

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This article was written by Ben Berkin who is an editor of http://crowdtrader.net/

By now everyone is aware of the growing investment crowdfunding industry. This new model for financing businesses and real estate projects is supposed to disrupt the traditional ways of raising capital, the same way that Lending Club and Prosper rewrote the consumer lending industry.

Crowdfunding platforms promised the small time investor the opportunity to invest in large commercial real estate investments and hot start-ups which were previously out of reach for them. The realization of this promise has progressed and platforms such as realtyshares , Fundrise and CircleUp, leaders ... (read more)