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.   French Billionaire Puts Up $100 million for Tuition-Free College A new school funded by billionaire entrepreneur Xavier Niel is coming to Silicon Valley. It has plans to grow to 10,000 students in the next five years. There’s no tuition—and there’s no teachers, either. Pass or Fail? Facebook Stalker Forces Police Chief To Give Himself Parking Ticket Florida police chief Melvin Tennyson’s parked his SUV on a sidewalk. Yes, that’s illegal. An outraged citizen posted a picture of it on Facebook, and eventually, the post ended up on the desk of Tennyson himself. See how justice prevailed. The World’s Most Profitable Internet Company? For more than a decade, people have been predicting the death of Craigslist. Meanwhile, the site just keeps chugging along. Currently, it’s banking $400 million per year in job postings. All with just 30 employees. Teach Yahoo! how to do it. Best Teaching Assistant Ever Turns Out To Be a Fake To help with his class this year, a Georgia Tech professor hired a teaching assistant named Jill Watson. At the end of the year, student received quite a surprise: Jill Watson turned out to be an artificial intelligence “bot.” Hot for teacher. Magic Mushrooms Shown To Lift Depression In a clinical trial, “magic mushrooms” were shown to lift severe depression. This raises hope that the psychedelic experience beloved by the Aztecs and the hippies could one day become a mainstream medicine. But don’t try this at home… Best Regards, The Crowdability Team

About CrowdabilityFor 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 just gave all U.S. citizens the same access. The revolution is called Equity Crowdfunding. We believe that equity crowdfunding—where many investors contribute small amounts of capital to get new businesses off the ground—has the power to drive entrepreneurship, transform communities, and generate wealth. Crowdability provides individual investors with education, information and insight into opportunities in the crowdfunding market.  Our free website and email newsletter aggregate and organize deals from an ever-expanding universe of crowdfunding platforms. While our initial focus is on equity crowdfunding of start-ups, we'll soon be providing access to the full universe of securities-based opportunities—from Real Estate to Peer-to-Peer loans. We aim to protect individual investors.  By educating and empowering them, we believe we can help them avoid making costly mistakes—and provide them the highest chances for success. 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