{"id":3250,"date":"2018-04-02T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2018-04-02T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:48:54","slug":"crowdfunding-and-broker-platforms-bring-impact-investing-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/04\/02\/crowdfunding-and-broker-platforms-bring-impact-investing-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdfunding and Broker Platforms Bring Impact Investing Closer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inc.com\/maureen-kline\/impact-investing-is-about-to-get-easier.html\">article<\/a> discusses two interesting concepts. First, it talks about the trend of &#8220;impact investing.&#8221; Impact investing regards the willingness of people to invest in projects and business that aim to promote social development, rather than just focusing on profits. But the article talks about how difficult it can be to pick up the specific investments that can truly &#8220;make a difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crowdfunding seems to be one option, as it may be a channel to funnel money to small entrepreneurs in a more democratic way. The article, then, talks about an initiative promoted by ImpactUs that, instead of being just a platform\u00a0for crowdfunding, works as a broker, that assess different business and which type of social difference they aim to achieves.<\/p>\n<p>According to ImpactUS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.impactusmarketplace.com\/\">website<\/a>, the company was acquired by <a href=\"http:\/\/mppgrp.com\/\">MissionPoint<\/a>, a broker dealer\u00a0that claims to provide the same type of service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article discusses two interesting concepts. First, it talks about the trend of &#8220;impact investing.&#8221; Impact investing regards the willingness of people to invest in projects and business that aim to promote social development, rather than just focusing on profits. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/2018\/04\/02\/crowdfunding-and-broker-platforms-bring-impact-investing-closer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2882,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2882"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3251,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/entrepreneurlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}