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THE Most Revolutionary Business Funding Source of the Last 54 Years

By Growthink
Created 05/31/2011 - 15:16

As evidenced by the recent $8 billion IPO of LinkedIN and the recent talk of a Facebook IPO being valued at greater than $100 billion, social networking is clearly one of the great communications revolutions in history.

AND it is driving the most revolutionary change in startup and small business financing since the birth of the venture capital industry in 1957.

That change is called crowdfunding.

If you are serious about starting and / or backing a new company, it is one that you MUST understand or you WILL fall behind.

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