Not just for entrepreneurs the jobs act crowdfunding for small businesses and startups will benefit investors securities lawyers community development specialists educators venture capitalists and those offering services in the new crowdfunding arena it is simply the most current and most comprehensive compendium of information on the law and its impact on this new market. Not just for entrepreneurs the jobs act crowdfunding for small businesses and startups will benefit investors securities lawyers community development specialists educators venture capitalists and those offering services in the new crowdfunding arena it is simply the most current and most comprehensive compendium of information on the law and its impact on this new market. Entrepreneurs and small business owners who wish to leverage the jobs act to crowdfund their enterprises the secondary readerships are investors angels venture capitalists securities lawyers community development specialists and visitors to crowdfunding platforms which are required under the jobs act to demonstrate to the sec and finra that they are proactively providing educational resources to potential crowdfunders. The jobs act crowdfunding guide to small businesses and startups william michael cunningham auth the second edition of this book shows how full implementation of the jumpstart our business startups jobs act by the sec in 2016 enables entrepreneurs and sme executives to leverage crowdfunding platforms to raise significant amounts of capital for their startups and small to medium sized businesses. On april 5 2012 president barack obama signed the jumpstart our business startups act better known as the jobs act the act is designed to reopen american capital markets to small companies defined in the act as emerging growth companies this is one of the most significant legislative initiatives in finance since the securities and exchange acts of 1933 and 1934 and it opens up funding