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Ep. 307 How I Raised It with Woodie Neiss of Crowdfund Capital Advisors

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Woodie Neese says you cannot crowdfund without a crowd.

Nathan Beckert opens by framing the show as a look at how entrepreneurs and VCs raise capital for their businesses. He welcomes Woody Neese of Crowdfund Capital Advisors for a deep dive into crowdfunding. The conversation starts with the basic categories: rewards based, equity based, donation based, and more. It then moves into the regulatory side, with a clear comparison of Reg CF, Reg D, and Reg A. Woody and Nathan keep circling back to the practical question of where founders should actually go to raise. Woody notes that there are many platforms, but only a subset is active in any given month, and that there were 35 active platforms in April. He points to the Capital Pulse Report as a way to see where deals are getting traction, hitting milestones, and drawing checks. He also suggests that founders can learn a lot by browsing platforms like WeFunder, Kickstarter, StartEngine, and Republic. The point is to look for the kind of activity that matches your company. If a platform is full of fintech or SaaS deals, that may tell you something useful about its audience. The discussion then shifts to the Offering Insight Report. Woody explains that regulation crowdfunding requires a Form C filing with the SEC. His team recreated that form as a submission tool and uses the data to evaluate raises. That leads into a bigger point about diligence and sourcing. Woody says the best companies may already be hiding inside this dataset. He describes an active effort to identify those businesses, talk with them, diligence them like VCs would, and invest in 200 to 300 companies while aiming to find 40 to 60 outliers. Nathan stays in the role of clarifier throughout, pressing for the basic definitions before moving into the weeds. The episode closes with a practical reminder that crowdfunding is both a market and a workflow. It is about knowing the rules, reading the platform landscape, and understanding which companies deserve attention.

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A practical, founder-friendly guide to crowdfunding platforms and raise mechanics.

How I Raised It gives a practical look at crowdfunding, not a broad survey. Woody Neese of Crowdfund Capital Advisors walks through rewards-based, equity-based, and donation-based crowdfunding, then separates Reg CF, Reg D, and Reg A in plain language.

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Get a plain-English tour of crowdfunding, from platform scouting to the regs behind a raise.

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