by Wires Law | Jun 1, 2025 | Crowdfunding, LawBits, Small Business Financing
Rewards Based Crowdfunding The 2008 financial crisis left small businesses with little means to raise capital, the wells of capital dried up. So, it wasn’t a coincidence that a year later, in 2009, Kickstarter was founded on the basis it could be part of the solution...
by John Wires | Apr 18, 2014 | Crowdfunding
How Much Should Equity Crowdfunding Directors Be Paid? In their proposed “Crowdfunding Offering Document” from March 20, 2014 the Ontario Securities Commission requires crowdfunding companies to disclose how much money the directors and officers of the...
by John Wires | Apr 16, 2014 | Crowdfunding
I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel this morning with Gerrard Buckley of Maple Leaf Angles, Jos Schmidt of Aequitas Innovations Inc. and Jim Turner the Vice Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission. The event, Igniting Entrepreneurship and Capital Flow in...
by John Wires | Oct 24, 2013 | Crowdfunding
The US Securities and Exchange Commission made its big announcement on Wednesday setting out a comprehensive proposal for how equity Crowdfunding rules would actually work. As a Canadian lawyer who has been writing about the importance of finding a way to harmonize...
by John Wires | Mar 5, 2013 | Crowdfunding, Venture Capital
York University professor Douglas Cumming recently contributed to a paper entitled, “Signaling in Equity Crowdfunding“. He and three other scholars wanted to get to the heart of what factors contributed to a successful crowdfunding campaign to raise equity financing....
