WEBINAR June 21, 2012

25% Discount for Small Business Chamber members

In April, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act. A provision in the law establishing crowdfunding as a mechanism to spur start-ups has the potential to significantly help minority firms.

A study conducted by the Commerce Department concluded that women- and minority-owned firms โ€œexperience higher loan denial probabilities and pay higher interest rates than white-owned businesses even after controlling for differences in credit-worthiness, and other factors.โ€ The failure rate of minority businesses is higher than that of nonminority firms, according to the Commerce Departmentโ€™s Minority Business Development Agency, partly because of lack of capital.

But crowdfundingcan potentially level the playing field, opening new sources of business capital and revenue for women- and minority-owned firms.

What is crowdfunding and how can it work to help your business in the future will be the subject of a webinar on June 21st conducted by William Michael Cunningham of Creative Investment Research.ย  Mr. Cunningham is a social investment advisor, owner of MinorityFinance.com and the author of the forthcoming book โ€œThe JOBS Act: Crowdfunding for Small Businesses and Startups.โ€

When:ย  Thursday June 21, 2012
3:30 to 4:30 PM (ET)

Cost:ย  $75 for SCSBCC members / $100 for non-members

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