Crowdfunding ECO Town Hall Ask to Join

In this course, you will learn the following and more:
- Understanding the value of pre-construction planning
- What value engineering is
- How to mitigate construction risk by understanding who to hire
- Do's and don'ts for construction contracts
- What goes into a Construction Feasibility study
- Common big ticket items in construction budgets

Attending this event will help you make sure your CF campaign is grounded in fact, and so you can raise enough to finish the project. The course will be led by Florida commercial builder Matthias Williams.

Date and time
Tue, April 12, 2022

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Location
Online event
Refund policy
Contact the organizer to request a refund.

Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Matthias has been a GC in the State of Florida for over 17 years. Over the past decade, Matthias has built a reputation as the go-to vendor for constructing vanilla box buildouts for some of the largest commercial brands in the USA. Building on this construction expertise, Matthias launched EasyTakeoffs.com a business specializing in material takeoffs for construction projects. If you're a real estate investor looking to understand how construction project costs are estimated, this class is for you.

 
NOTE:
• CfPA members attend FREE. Login to your account at http://Patreon.com to register and get the link to this important discussion.
• For non-members, join CfPA for only $10 per month to enjoy frequent events like this, and many other valuable benefits, for free.
• If you wish to attend just this webinar as a guest, click the link below to register for this practical informational event. $249

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/construction-estimating-for-real-estate-crowdfunding-projects-tickets-237889332397 

On April 5, 2012, real estate finance changed forever when the JOBS Act was passed by a bipartisan Act of Congress and four visionaries took their first steps to revolutionizing the industry. 

Join in an historic event marking the 10-Year anniversary of the day real estate finance changed as founders of the top private equity real estate syndication platforms, hosted by Dr. Adam Gower, GowerCrowd, come together to commemorate this momentous occasion: 

Tore Steen, CrowdStreet 
Jilliene Helman, RealtyMogul 
Adam Hooper, RealCrowd 
Charles Clinton, EquityMultiple 

Hear from these industry leaders as they reflect upon how they changed real estate investing for investors and capital raisers over the last ten years. 

Learn what their vision is for the industry and what it means for you and your financial future. 

Join us on April 5, 2022, to celebrate the democratization of commercial real estate investing and learn from the people who made it happen. 

FREE WEBINAR - Apr. 05, 2022 1:00 PM EST, 10:00 AM PST

Register here: https://learn.gowercrowd.com/10-year-anniversary/?utm_source=cfpa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=promo 

Event announcement: Valuations - How to determine your startup’s valuation

Date and time
Friday, March 18, 2022

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT

About this event
In this class participants will learn the factors used in determining an existing business valuation, as well as walk through financial modeling of how to determine your Startup or existing business’ value.

Instructor: Prof. George S. Pullen
Course fee: $249 for non-members. $49 for members.
Time: 1.5 Hours + 30 minutes of Q&A
Offered: Quarterly
Class size: Maximum 10
 

This course is two hours long and taught by Professor George Pullen. Professor Pullen is an Adjunct Professor at UNH School of Law and Instructor at Columbia University in NYC where he teaches financial theory and modeling for blockchain, space and cryptocurrency business. In his day job he is the Senior Economist for the Commodities Future Trade Commission in Washington, DC and has over 20 years experience as an investment banker, trader and economist. If you are struggling to understand or explain your business’ valuation to potential and future investors, this course is for you.

MINIMUM LEARNING OUTCOMES

Understanding how businesses are valued.
Insights into how to model your business’ value.
Framework for you to model your business’ valuation.
  

REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/valuations-how-to-determine-your-startups-valuation-tickets-237881900167

A report by UNC's Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise ... 

The venture capital financing picture looks rather bleak for small businesses located away urban centers or the coasts. SBIC fills some of the gap but not entirely.  

https://www.sbia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Kenan-FundingGap_02042020.pdf 

Abstract

Despite having the deepest and most diverse capital markets in the world, the United States still struggles to provide sufficient capital to many small businesses outside of major commercial centers as well as to women-owned and minority-owned businesses regardless of size or location. This paper reviews the academic literature and provides an analysis of some recent data to gain understanding of the causes of these gaps as well as the solutions for filling the gaps. 

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Not included in this paper is the following thesis: In the same way that community banks are more effective than large national banks at lending to local businesses, crowdfunding could be an important tool to bring and keep investment capital local.  

CfPA President, Samson Williams, sent a letter on behalf of the CfPA to the SEC.  

It begins ...

The Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA) has been closely following the growth of NonFungible Tokens (“NFTs”) and are concerned by the increasing number of NFTs that appear to be offered as unregistered securities. The CfPA is very familiar with decentralized ledger technology that enables the creation of NFTs and digital assets as a whole and has petitioned the SEC in the past to adopt rules on the regulation of digital assets that are securities, such as initial coin offerings (ICOs) and so called stablecoins... 

To read the whole letter, login to download the attachment or visit the ecosystem media library: https://www.crowdfundingecosystem.com/g/crowdfunding-eco-town-hall/medialibrary#media-library