This post was originally produced for Forbes.
When Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss helped lead the charge to launch investment crowdfunding in the U.S. they couldn’t have guessed at its global impact. Now, having completed a months-long report to the World Bank on the likely economic impact of crowdfunding in the developing world, they have much greater insight on the role crowdfunding will play in allowing people to lift themselves out of poverty. (Best and Neiss’s firm Crowdfund Capital Advisors sponsored the publication of my book, Crowdfunding for Social Good, in July of 2013. We have no other business relationship.)
Sherwood Neiss and Jason Best, photo by Devin Thorpe
On January 9, 2014 at noon Eastern, Best and Neiss will join me for a live discussion about the potential for crowdfunding to make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions of people around the world.
Tune in and listen while you work.
Best and Neiss, together with Zak Casady-Dorian also wrote the book, Crowdfund In…