Presentation: Angel Capital Association - The Future of Crowdfunding

Fifth Era is presenting at the 2015 Angel Capital Association Annual Meeting in San Diego, California a set of plausible future scenarios for the future of crowdfunding.

These scenarios indicate that the current widely held "official future" of how crowdfunding will play out, is perhaps at the optimistic end of the spectrum.  Other equally plausible scenarios would see a much more challenging future driven by potentially high failure rates to be experienced on crowdfunding platforms combined with, and perhaps driving increased regulation.

The summary materials are an incomplete record of the discussion, but can be downloaded by clicking this link.

For further perspective on this issue, contact Fifth Era through the contact section of this website.

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Report: Building an External Innovation Capability

Authors: Matthew Le Merle and Jamie Campbell

In the past few years, an increasing number of the largest companies in the world have established a new C-level role—the chief innovation officer—responsible for leading innovation activities throughout the enterprise. As these executives get to work, they quickly find that the pace of innovation has accelerated and that their companies cannot hope to create and develop every possible source of innovation advantage exclusively in-house.

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Report: Angel Networks: A Better Mousetrap

With the demise of the traditional venture capital fund model and the rise of organized angel networks we are seeing an increasing proportion of early stage companies receiving their first round of external financing from angels, angel networks and most recently online angel lists and posts.

This article, originally published in 2007, outlines why angel networks provide superior advantages for the individual angels as they go about their investment decision making.

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