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Now Anyone Can Invest in Startups—if They Have the Stomach for It

With equity crowdfunding, you can become an investor in the next big thing, or in flop after flop after flop

When Oculus VR sold to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, some asked: What if the people who backed the virtual-reality startup two years earlier on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter had received shares instead of T-shirts or VR headsets?

They might have seen $100 turn into $14,000, says Richard Swart, chief strategy officer of NextGen Crowdfunding.

WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/now-anyone-can-invest-in-startupsif-they-have-the-stomach-for-it-1491735608

 

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