Crowdfund Investing For Dummies

The authors lived through the process of creating the JOBS act and this is more useful as a perspective on that process than a guide to the current state of the crowfund industry. It is a worthwhile background but not exactly what I was looking for. Since it is written such that individual sections can stand alone there is a bit of redundancy within those sections and a some of the generic startup advice gets in the way of communicating specifically what is important about crowdfunding.In fairness to the authors equity based crowdfunding barely exists so other than speculating on how it will be different from kickstarter there isn't much else to write about right now.

We purchased a few books on Crowdfunding and Kickstarter because as we considered launching a raise ourselves using crowdfunding."Crowdfunding Investing for Dummies" gives a good soup-to-nuts overview of what crowdfunding is and how to formulate a plan to raise funds for your idea, startup or business. It's the place to start for all levels of entrepreneur interested in this kind of funding.This book provides interesting history on the origins of crowdfunding (I had no idea about Yunus, Grameen Bank and the Nobel Prize roots of crowdfunding) and gives good examples of successful ventures.I recommend this book for beginners wanting to know more about crowdfunding and for experienced entrepreneurs looking to round out their knowledge on the subject.

This is a great read and covers more than expected. Authors Sherwood Neiss, Jason W. Best, and Zak Cassidy-Dorion provide in great detail how this revolutionary model for raising capital online came to being and the instrumental and historical role they played in changing an 80 year old process of raising capital. They pour their hearts out in this book sharing anecdotal stories and providing context for would be investors or issuers. Must read.

Good overview, but very outdated. Find something published more recently for info on equity crowdfunding.

the book is redundant. The principle of the book is repeated over and over before new material is introduced. It became overly boring very quickly. The author does warn you that the book shouldn't be read from page one to the end like normal books. Instead he asks readers to skip to chapters of interest. I did not find the book to be of any interest. I learned what I needed to learn from the first chapter. There should be a book titled, "how to write a book for dummies."

I absolutely love "Crowdfund Investing For Dummies." It goes into great detail about this new asset class and it is a great source of information for both issuers and investors. If you are a small business or start up thinking on raising capital via this new method, this book is a must read.

I enjoyed the book and felt it reinforced some assumptions I had and provided good resources for things I did not know.

Not worth 14 bucks. I expected a lot more here. Very repetitive don't risk your money, lots of links to sites and a lot of common sense here. There were a few ideas here hence 2 stars, still pretty disappointed.

Useful book for the ones, who decided to start with crowd business

This version isn`t updated. It^s an informative book but too much repetitive, sometimes a bit silly and for many times too basic (don^t be biased by the book title, you may find deep information about specific topics with it). There are other options in the market that can be more complete if you are a startup owner and if you want to develop your knowledge if you already have some, otherwise, if the topic is new to you, could be interesting IF there are newer versions available as this book will just confuse you (many things changed). Good luck and good reading.

I couldn't download the book and found that this was a waste of money/time