Just Go Grind #211: Jonny Price, Director of Fundraising at Wefunder, the Largest Regulation Crowdfunding Platform
Jonny Price is the Director of Fundraising at Wefunder ( https://wefunder.com/ ) where he is working to empower entrepreneurs with capital and customers. He finds great entrepreneurs and helps them succeed on the Wefunder platform.
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Some of the Topics Covered by Jonny Price in this Episode
- What Wefunder does
- What an accredited investor is
- The types of crowdfunding platforms and who should consider raising funds this way
- The process for an entrepreneur getting started with Wefunder
- How long the average crowdfunding campaigns takes from beginning to completion
- The pre-launch tasks a startup completes before their campaign goes live
- The benefits of regulation crowdfunding
- Potential downsides of crowdfunding
- Why thoughts around equity crowdfunding are evolving for VCs
- The process of getting a lead investor on Wefunder
- The two main value props of Wefunder
- The types of capital raised through Wefunder
- What separates Wefunder from other equity crowdfunding platforms
- How Jonny decided to join Wefunder
- The potential lift of the cap on regulation crowdfunding from $1.07M to $5M
- Wefunder being on track from $7M of investment volume this month
- The minimum and average investment on Wefunder
- Some of the best companies to come out of Wefunder
- What's next for crowdfunding
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