Crowdfunding Or Crowdsourcing

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Belide Bhavani Shanker Individual Case Assignment Introduction: The Article describes about crowdfunding or crowdsourcing. It is a model to collect funds for a specific project. I am going to present about the detail description of crowdfunding. It is described with an example- A person has a project in his mind and it is very much useful to the people but he doesn’t have the funds to develop that project. In that situation he has to approach a bank for loan, if the bank doesn’t sanction the loan then one of the alternate and ultimate solutions is crowdfunding. It helps individuals to generate funds required to complete the project. Crowdfunding provides a platform for individuals to post about their project and required funds on the internet, so that investors can look that project and if they are interested on it they can invest the money to complete the project, like this the funds are generated. With this model each project can have a lot of investors instead of a single investor. This paper will cover about the conventional lending and also about Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act. It also includes peer-to-peer lending. This paper describes about the lending based crowdfunding. “In April 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups” (Best, J., & Neiss, S., 2012). JOBS Act is legal for obtaining funding through equity and lending based crowdfunding. It makes the individuals who are going to start their business will have a chance to expand their business by collecting funds through online from the individuals. Here in crowdfunding the “crowd” as a loan officer i.e., they provide or invest the money on some project to complete it. This makes the crowdfunding for ultimate source to complete ... ... middle of paper ... ...class investors access to a new asset class- appears unrealized” (WILLIAMSON, J. J., 2013). This article describes about peer-to-peer lending. It is defined as peer-to-peer lending is conservative, in that investors can expect to be repaid at an agreed interest rate. • There are famous international sites for peer-to-peer lending, some of them are Zopa, Prosper and Lending Club. • This paper provides the details about the Current law and FMCB deal with peer-to-peer lending. Here current law describes about the Securities which are offered globally. • It also discusses about the limits and jurisdictions. “It is most widely adopted in European Union, Particularly the United Kingdom, Italy and Spain.” (Tripp, C., & Ascroft, P., 2013). This article mainly concentrates on peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding and also other forms of financing. Firstly it describes about

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