This Week in Crowdfunding

You rely on Crowdability to bring you the best deals. Now, rely on us to share the most up-to-date news, trends and opinion. You won’t find this stuff in the mainstream press. Look for it every Friday morning.   Tear Down the Wrong House? Blame Google Maps In Rowlett, Texas, a demolition company just did the unthinkable: it tore down the wrong house. The owner and inhabitant of said house is understandably upset. And now the demo company is trying to pin the blame on Google Maps. Whoops.   Here’s the Thinnest Weapon You Can Carry A Minnesota company called Ideal Conceal has created a double-barreled handgun that can be folded up to look exactly like an ordinary smartphone. Ring-ring. Man Pays $400/Month to Live in Box You’ve heard the horror stories of overpriced San Francisco apartment rentals—how people are forced to live in tents, FedEx vans, and old cars. But now a young man named Peter Berkowitz has come up with a novel solution: live in a box. Biggest Embarrassment in F.B.I. History Moments after unlocking the infamous San Bernardino iPhone, the F.B.I. spilled a glass of water on it, rendering the phone permanently useless. High-Five! Microsoft and Twitter Create Sex Slave Just one day after Microsoft introduced an Artificial Intelligence chat robot to Twitter, it shut the project down. Why? Because the “bot” transformed itself into a Hitler-loving, incest promoting, “Bush did 9/11”-proclaiming robot. This is the future? Best Regards, The Crowdability Team

About Crowdability For years, wealthy investors have had the right to invest in high-growth companies at their earliest stages.  In some of the boldest changes to U.S. securities laws in nearly 100 years, the SEC is about to give the rest of us the same access.  The revolution is called Equity Crowdfunding. We believe that equity crowdfunding – or the ability for many investors ("the crowd") to contribute small amounts of capital to get new businesses off the ground – has the power to dramatically impact entrepreneurship, and the power to generate wealth. Other emerging forms of securities-based crowdfunding, from revenue-based to debt-based, will increase the audience for crowdfunding and further grow its impact.  This is an exciting development:  entrepreneurship is the lifeblood of our economy -- it has the power to transform individuals, communities and society. Crowdability provides individual investors with education, information and insight into opportunities in the crowdfunding market.  Our website and email newsletter aggregate and organize deals from an ever-expanding universe of crowdfunding platforms.  While our initial focus is on equity crowdfunding, we will also be providing access to the full universe of securities-based opportunities -- everything from real estate and agriculture to feature films -- as well as donation-based opportunities. Our goal is to save investors time and simplify the process of discovering and evaluating crowdfunding opportunities, while helping fund the next generation of entrepreneurs and companies. Copyright © 2016 Crowdability, Inc., All rights reserved. You signed up on http://www.crowdability.com/ Our mailing address is: Crowdability, Inc. 229 West 28th Street 12th Floor New York, NY 10001