Emerge Conference - Oxford 29/30 October 2011 - Day 2 · yes_we_tweet. Emerge Conference - Oxford 29/30 October 2011 - Day 1 · yes_we_tweet. Slideshare. Don’t Wait for the Crowd — Legalization of Crowdfunding Could Take a While | Campbell Law Group. Crowfunding – raising money online to finance something – has obvious appeal in this era of social media and rapidly expanding Internet penetration.
For companies seeking to raise investment dollars, however, crowdfunding is largely unavailable as a tool to attract investors based in the U.S. Crowdfunding is currently impractical in the U.S. because all securities offered to U.S. investors must either be registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or there must be an applicable exemption from registration.
Registration with the SEC is very expensive and time consuming, and exemptions from registration are generally not available if the security is offered to the general public. Fortunately, crowdfunding and the anachronistic restrictions on the public offerings of securities are receiving a lot of attention these days. Despite all the positive signs, however, the future of crowdfunding remains very uncertain.
Support for a crowdfunding exemption is not universal. The Heart of the Law | Campbell Law Group. It’s not often that I hear lawyers talking about “heart.” In fact, we are trained in law school to detach ourselves from emotion and to apply the law dispassionately. We are inundated with human tragedy in the first year of law school through the study of criminal law and personal injury (torts), and somehow the human element is lost in the study of theory. As a business lawyer at a large international firm, I often worked on very large and complex legal transactions with a lot of zeroes.
I found that such deals were exciting and sexy in the abstract, but I did not find the day-to-day work very rewarding. Why did I enjoy working with entrepreneurs? Working in the world of social enterprise, the heart element is even more prominent. So, my heart was open and soft and vulnerable – and it broke when I witnessed day after day the abhorrent conditions in which so many of my fellow beings lived. Of course, this is true with all of the environmental and social problems throughout the world.
How might we increase social impact with OpenIDEO over the next year? - Concepting - OpenIDEO Collaboratories. Idea At OpenIDEO Collaboratories we:1 come together socialise & collaborate on OpenIDEO concepts2 dev skills & knowledge to be more effective social innovators & entrepreneurs3 dev collaborative partnerships4 collectively address issues that matter The OpenIDEO Collaboratory is modelled on the Collaboratory Melbourne currently being prototyped in Melbourne, Australia. The big picture vision for the Collaboratory is to create a platform for participatory collective action on the issues that matter most through social enterprise and social innovation.
It was inspired in part by the OpenIDEO platfrom. Initially, the OpenIDEO Collaboratory: What kind of social impact does this concept achieve? The Collaboratory works as an incubator for the development of initiatives with positive social impact, and networks of communities doing social good. What skills are required to take this concept forward? How do you envision this concept being supported financially? Idea submitted by:David Hood. Social entrepreneurs go Hollywood: The promise of change in 25 words or less.
(It’s pretty hard to change the world, if no one wants to follow your thinking…) Curtis Faith has been asking us all about stories. What is your story? Who is the hero? How will it end? Good questions, because stories provide a powerful framework for spreading ideas. Randy Olson, the scientist-turned-filmmaker, regularly lambastes the academic/science community for getting so caught up in the pointy-headed details that they completely forget how real communication happens. Also take a look at the work by Alex (Sandy) Petland, the author of Honest Signals. Yet most scientists (and other big idea people) don’t get it. The thing is, if you want to move your idea from the edge into the mainstream, from the future to the present, you have to package it.
This is not the same thing as dumbing it down. That’s why, especially for the “issue entrepreneurs”, stories are the key to changing the world… And no one is better at telling stories (that move a big audiences) than Hollywood. Hollywood Story: An infographic depicting the percentage share of. Kate Ettinger Twitter tweets related to: Roadmap, Harmony, Map, Diplomats, Visual and more. Facebook.