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Live Broadcast of 5th Annual Silicon Valley FinTech & Crowdfunding Conference

Live Broadcast of 5th Annual Silicon Valley FinTech & Crowdfunding Conference

#crowdfunding Coverage Starts Feb 9th  & 10th 11:50 am EST  Click Here for Agenda & Speakers

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2017 Real Estate Crowdfunding: Surveying the Landscape

http://crowdfundbeat.com/2017/02/05/2017-real-estate-crowdfunding-surveying-the-landscape/

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New Podcast Series Gives Easy Access To Inspiring Content

For the past year, I have been using Google Hangouts on Air to interview CEOs, celebrities, impact investors and social entrepreneurs to learn what they are doing to make the world a better place--and how we can help. Now I've created a podcast to share some of the best content in a format that many find easier to use for long-format interviews.

It is been a wonderful to get to know so many remarkable people. In March, I interviewed John Taft, the CEO of RBC Wealth Management-US, about the company's $50 million commitment to improving access to clean water.

Last fall, I interviewed Archie Panjabi, who plays the smart, seductive and tough-as-nails Kalinda on "The Good Wife," talking about Rotary's effort to eradicate polio.

In January, I visited with 16-year-old Jack Andraka about his invention of a diagnostic device for detecting pancreatic cancer while he was still in middle school. We discuss the reality that we can rid the world of cancer within thirty years.

Each week I do a new set of interviews, so every day at 7:00 Eastern a new episode is posted and will be available on iTunes. Even if you don't live in an Apple world, you can subscribe to the podcast here. To scroll through the available episodes, click here or simply see below.

You can also listen to the podcasts on Stitcher here.

All of the interviews I do will continue to be available on the websites for which they were created, Forbes, CrowdFundBeat, Crowdcast and right here on Your Mark on the World. You can also find them on my YouTube channel.

[devindthorpe]

Sang Lee Explains Equity Crowdfunding For Social Impact

Sang Lee, founder and CEO of Return on Change, a crowdfunding site for social entrepreneurs will be speaking at SECFC13--the Social Enterprise and Crowdfunding Conference. Today, he visited with me for CrowdFundBeat to talk about his platform and the implementation of the JOBS Act which enables investment crowdfunding.

Sang Lee:

Sang Lee is a recovering investment banker who discovered his passion for startups.  He’s now the CEO and founder of Return on Change, a funding portal connecting high-impact startups with investors. Grounded in social innovation, Sang’s mission is to alleviate the pain that social entrepreneurs/startups experience when they seek a capital raise. Through technology and finance, he is seeking to create a new paradigm of impact startup finance where everyone gets involved in the sustainability of the future while losing the unnecessary complexities of deal making and capital contracts. He has received the Young Entrepreneurs to Watch Award from Under30CEO NY, and is serving as the Executive Director of CF50, a global crowdfunding think tank.

Prior to founding Return on Change, Sang worked as an investment banker in the energy field at WestLB and BNP Paribas, accruing a wealth of expertise in financial regulation, business, and financial structuring. Additionally, he has significant experience in the advisory and execution of more than $10.0 Bn equivalent of energy transactions in North America. Sang strives to educate innovative entrepreneurs about online funding’s immense potential to provide startups with critical early stage capital as well as investors with the opportunity to become involved in the most disruptive companies. You can follow him on Twitter @RoCSang. 

  Devin D. Thorpe

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CrowdFundBeat Founder To Speak At SECFC13

CrowdFundBeat Founder Sydney Armani will speak at the Social Enterprise and Crowdfunding Conference at Snowbird on September 27, 2013. Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Sydney to learn more about CrowdFundBeat.com. 

Sydney Armani:

Sydney Armani is a long time silicon valley entrepreneur, with more than twenty years experience in Valley’s community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. Sydney’s vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, like Hello Net Internet and Mobile telephony appliance services. Minitel and Videotex.A online a first generation of touch Screen tablets. His international experience in trade and International banking takes him around the world, projects with OPIC Overseas Private Investment Corporation for free trade with business engagement in Europe and UAE’s Dubai. A creative person at heart, he’s working on building CrowdFunding platform ” Live Crowdfunding demo pitch contest building bridge for new generation of Startup’s in the Crowdfunding industry. Sydney is publisher of CrowdFundBeat.com, an online daily crowdfunding news site in US and UK. He is also the organizer of the annual Silicon Valley Meets Crowdfunders conference in Palo Alto, CA. 

Devin D. Thorpe