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The pros and cons of crowdfunding

7:48 PM ET Wed, 23 Oct 2013

Jason Best, Principal at Crowdfund Capital Advisors discusses how crowdfunding - the funding of a company by selling small amounts of equity to many investors - is going to be the next big thing following micro-finance.

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