Use perks to attract investors, but also to build community and relationships

Perks are not as important on Wefunder as they are on Kickstarter or Indiegogo. And certainly we wouldn't recommend t-shirts and coffee mugs -- unless you se...

How to Win Friends and Influence People

In April 2017, MySwimPro launched a Wefunder campaign to raise capital for their app, a personal swim coaching program that was named best Apple Watch app of...

Parsnip: Making business partnerships work!

We recently hosted a "speed networking" event at the Wefunder office with Parsnip and KitchenTown. We asked Sally Rogers and Erin Lenhardt, the masterminds b...

Crowdbuilding before Crowdfunding

This is a guest blog post by Nathan Rose. Nathan is the bestselling author of Equity Crowdfunding: The Complete Guide For Startups & Growing Companies. H...

Wefunder Blog Update | Announcing Wefunder's B Corp Certification

I'm proud to announce that Wefunder is now a Certified B Corp! We're the first equity crowdfunding platform to join the movement of over 2,650 companies arou...

La Cocina: Cultivating food entrepreneurs

For over a decade, La Cocina has been deeply committed to cultivating food entrepreneurs in San Francisco. We interviewed Geetika Agrawal, their Program Dire...

Important Considerations When Using Regulation Crowdfunding for Financing

Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2018 by Marilea Campomizzi, CPA Imagine you own or are running a startup company. (For some this won't be a difficult image to...

Capital + Marketing

One of the visions we have for Wefunder is that founders benefit from marketing and awareness, as well as raising capital. Doughp's campaign was a good exa...

Chipotle Aluminaries Project | Uncharted

The Chipotle Aluminaries Project is an accelerator designed to help growth stage ventures take their businesses to the next level.

Foundr podcast

Just came across this podcast and am loving it. Interviews with incredible entrepreneurs. If you are into podcasts, check it out:https://foundr.com/podcast-w...

Expo East meetup?

If you’re going to Expo East and fancy a glass of champagne on Wefunder, let us know — we would love to see you there!http://www.expoeast.com/ee18/public/ent...

Who said sourdough can't be gluten free?

In this interview, we spoke with Sadie Scheffer, gluten free maven, and the Founder and CEO of Bread SRSLY. She offered candid perspectives on striking the r...

Why run a Regulation Crowdfunding campaign?

One of the most common questions I get from founders is “why run a Regulation Crowdfunding campaign vs. raise money through more conventional means?” My answ...

B Corp founders dinner (+ wanna-Bs!)

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Wefunder HQ for dinner last night. We loved meeting such a passionate and brilliant group of people, and we on the Wefund...

Screw-ups!

I was talking to my friend Justin the other day about trying to learn from each other's mistakes -- before we make those same mistakes ourselves!In that spir...

The Rise Of B Corps Highlights The Emergence Of A New Way Of Doing Business

In my previous column I talked about the growing demand for impact investments, driven by powerful global trends like the ongoing transfer of wealth to women...

Doughbies' cautionary tale

Interesting article on the importance of fitting the investment capital to the business model.https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/23/cookie-startup-fails-to-rise/

Fundraising playbook

One of the many outcomes of our recent team cabin trips was this Fundraising Playbook: https://wefunder.com/fundraisingplaybookIt's brimming with creative id...

Opening the Curtains

On May 16, 2016, we on the Wefunder team were proud that Bogobrush was one of the first companies to go live on our platform, on the very first day of Regula...