SeedInvest SEC Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee Presentation
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Current State of Online Fundraising (Cont'd)
Overall, on the primary side, there seems to be a relatively healthy balance between
expanding access to capital and ensuring adequate investor protections (however, various
platforms have different standards)
But there are still two major, outstanding hurdles to making online fundraising and investing
a viable asset classes for the masses:
Diversification
Liquidity - investing and exiting are two very different things
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Many startup and small business investors get “burned out” quickly after making a few
investments since they typically need to wait for years to realize any return (this ultimately
leads to less capital available for startups and small businesses)
The good news is that we now have some actual case studies of meaningful retail investor
exits (which provides data to address many of the JOBS Act concerns from ten years ago)
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