I asked my readers what the little alochol bottles are called.

'Nips' = 44.2%
'Airplane Bottles' = 23.5%
'Shooters' = 20.6%
'Breakfast 🫠' = 11.7%

Would you rather be:

(A) 100% sold on the founder + 40% sold on the product

(B) 75% sold on the founder + 100% sold on the product

Crowdfunding can be HARD - if you’ve raised a successful crowdfunding round it’s a huge positive signal

Give people a financial incentive to support your business

YES

A pretty sick contest - you can enter here: republic.com/spaceweek?invi…

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→ Complete the tasks
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Aaand there’s more↴

New prerequisite for investing in a startup

I now ask to see the most recent investor update that the founder has sent

Immediately tells me how often the communicate with their founders and I get to see their thought process in the note itself

Chart of Wefunder investment volume, as a percentage of VC dollars deployed, per Carta.

Community Rounds are still a very small percentage of the total VC and angel market.

But momentum is building for the democratization of angel investing.

Lots of sell pressure today on StartEngine stock, shares sold for as little as $2.55 today

I scooped up 480 shares at an average price of $2.68

Our guest this week is Kevin Fulmer! Kevin is a prominent figure in the equity crowdfunding ecosystem recognized as CROWDSCALE ⚖️.

To watch the full episode, click the link below 👇

youtu.be/97rQfWPdY6Y

StartEngine appears to be enacting a 20-1 stock split, reducing the price per share

The links in this article received over 357 clicks - it was a popular edition!!

Tons going on in the startup investing space, so I decided to round up everything that's going on:

crowdscale.beehiiv.com/p/hr2799