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In 1998, the Copyright Term Extension Act more popularly known as the ‘Sonny Bono Act’ or ‘Mickey Mouse Protection Act’ (due to its fierce lobbying by Walt Disney and Sonny Bono’s wife, Mary Bono) extended copyright terms in the United States by 20 years. This enactment helped large corporations with exceedingly valued copyrights succeed inContinue reading “Is copyright extension a welcome change?”

Check out our Founder & CEO’s blog post on ProjectEve.com on Small Business Lessons Learned the Hard Way.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally lifted its 80 year restriction on advertising for Regulation D offerings. What does this mean? Unregistered companies trying to raise capital that were previously banned from seeking funding from the public at large through public solicitation can do so now in the form of equity crowd funding.

The Traklight team continues to grow so we thought we’d share a little bit about our newest member to the Traklight team, Kenady Sorenson.  Kenady was involved in the start-up community by taking ASU’s Rapid Start Up classes and graduated with a BA in Poli Sci and Spanish.  Kenady hopes to bring customer service, sales,Continue reading “Meet Our Newest Member to the Traker Team”

Crowdnetic is one of the foremost providers of market data solutions and customizable platform technology in the crowdfunding field. They provide services for the private equity and securities market. Their mission is to make crowd funding more sustainable as well as transparent.

For those of you oblivious to the concept of crowd funding, it is steadily growing as a model of financing small businesses and other endeavours. Indiegogo as a crowdfunding website makes use of social networking platforms to give easy accessibility to a vast pool of investors who typically put up small amounts into projects thatContinue reading “Spotlight on Indiegogo”

Tech Cocktail Phoenix Social has ended and if you missed it, you missed not only learning about a lot of fun companies that are starting up here in AZ, but also about our growing tech community.  The event provided some of these entrepreneurs an opportunity to pitch in front of a crowd for the firstContinue reading “Tech Cocktail Social 2013”

An interesting email came across my blackberry ( yes I am a proud Canadian and have my “zed” 10) the other day. A CEO asked me why we were using InnovaPrep with a TM on our consulting website when his company InnovaPrep had been using it for many years. So good question. A bit ofContinue reading “Trademarks: Practice what we preach”

Guest post by Jackie Hutter, IP Strategist.

  Anyone and everyone who is interested in this new crowdfunding industry should attend the Crowdfunding Bootcamp 2013: 2nd Annual Global Crowdfunding Convention and Bootcamp October 14-16th in Las Vegas. Designed for portals, startups, entrepreneurs, companies, investors, and service providers; the three days are packed with inspirational and practical education plus networking opportunities. Education, Education,Continue reading “Crowdfunding Industry Leaders gather for 2nd Annual Bootcamp”