{"id":941,"date":"2014-01-23T14:33:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2014-01-23T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T21:33:54","slug":"rating-the-crowdfunding-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Rating the Crowdfunding Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur in its print version had a useful article about a crowdfunding rating agency, if you will, called CrowdsUnite.<\/p>\n<p>We took a look at their site, and while not exactly a ratings agency, they did list 12 crowdfunding sites on their website, with links.<\/p>\n<p>About two or three of them appear useful to business, but it&#8217;s all in the crowdfunding listing and what happens.<\/p>\n<p>One of our clients had an interesting experience with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperfund.com\">www.hyperfund.com<\/a>, which was that they didn&#8217;t disclose a $5,000 commitment fee to do research on whether to approve his loan. We thought that should be waived altogether, and told one of the Hyperfund founders so, since as a member of Solutions Forum, we&#8217;ve already vetted his funding need and even recommended funding platforms.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll do the same for you&#8230;..we only charge $100 as a review fee, and we&#8217;ll throw in access to our articles site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesolutionsforum.com\">www.thesolutionsforum.com<\/a>. For a complete run-through on financing sources, take our Alternative Funding course at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\">www.theasoe.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur in its print version had a useful article about a crowdfunding rating agency, if you will, called CrowdsUnite. We took a look at their site, and while not exactly a ratings agency, they did list 12 crowdfunding sites on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=941\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,7],"tags":[218,59,745,266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}