U.S. regulators are tied up in knots trying to figure out how to write laws for equity crowdfunding to prevent fraud.
Perhaps they ought to take a page from the Dutch.
In the Netherlands, equity crowdfunding from unaccredited investors has been legal for the better part of three years. “The Netherlands are really a frontrunner in equity-based crowdfunding,” Korstiaan Zandvliet, the co-founder of Symbid, said at the Massolution crowdsourcing conference in New York City last week.
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