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Real Estate Crowdfunding to Take Center Stage at Crowd Invest Summit in Los Angeles
Real Estate Crowdfunding to be Major Focus at Country's Largest Crowd Investment Conference
Los Angeles, California – Crowd Invest Summit, the country's largest crowdfunding investment conference, taking place on September 6th and 7th at the Los Angeles Convention Center, has announced that it will be expanding its focus on Real Estate Crowdfunding.
Since the signing of the JOBS Act in 2012, Real Estate Investing has been the fastest growing segment of the new Crowdfunding Industry. According to CBRE, the real estate has more than a $1.7 trillion dollars worth of dry power ready to be invested in residential and commercial real estate deals.
"We expect over 3,000 attendees at Crowd Invest Summit this September, a significant portion being investors who are looking to learn about new opportunities," said Alon Goren, co-founder of Crowd Invest Summit. "Real Estate investing has been a major focus at the summit, and because of overwhelming demand, this September we're expanding on the topic."
Crowd Invest Summit will feature the crowd investment industry's top leaders, investors and firms covering real estate investing over the span of two days in September:
"As one of California's preeminent real estate and business law firms, we are excited to partner with Crowd Invest Summit for its first-ever discussion on the emerging issues and opportunities presented by the ever-growing real estate crowdfunding market," said Chuck Jarrell, Partner, Allen Matkins. "Crowdfunding has become an integral part of real estate investing and a topic that will resonate well with conference attendees."
"We are excited to be back at Crowd Invest Summit this September to discuss how we've quadrupled our investor base by combining technology and marketing with an institutional approach to real estate investing," said Michael Episcope, Principal, Origin Investments.
"Commercial real estate is no longer reserved for the wealthy. Now, everyone has the ability to passively invest in multi-million dollar properties, all thanks to crowdfunding," said Matt Schuberg, CEO, RealCap. "We are very excited to come back to Crowd Invest Summit in September to bring these types of opportunities to the masses."
"401(k) and IRA accounts provide access to 12 times more investment dollars than checking and savings accounts," said Todd Yancey, CSO of IRA Services. "We are excited to explain the process to real estate investors at Crowd Invest Summit how to easily access that capital."
"Now more than ever real estate companies should focus on the fundamentals and principles in mitigating risks to investors capital. Crowd Invest Summit offers both Real Estate Companies and potential investors to engage first hand and learn more about the risks and rewards of investing in Commercial Real Estate," said Rayaan Arif, CEO, FundingTree.
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How to Use Crowdfunding PR, Social Media, Websites and Email Marketing to Launch Successful Kickstarter, Indiegogo or Title IV Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns
Crowdfunding PR helps crowdfunding sites and their campaign managers plan effective marketing campaigns that give fundraising efforts a higher than average chance for crowdfunding success!
What's the best way to get the word out about a crowdfunding campaign?
Build an in-depth website including a well-provisioned press room full of information such as a primary PR contact info, logos, head shots of executives, press releases, press coverage, product photos, graphs, charts, white papers, and anything else that a reporter needs to write a news brief or a feature length article at 4:00 am in the morning without talking to anyone.
Always cover the: who, what, where, when, why and how much. Use the website as an electronic sales person that provides comprehensive FAQs that lead customers, crowdfunders and investors directly down the path that you want them to follow with regard to product/service education. The goal is to remove all fear, uncertainty and doubt from the sales equation.
Next, offer them a free white paper or something worth of value such as early bird discounts, VIP memberships, etc. that makes them want to share their email address and phone number with your team for future fundraising marketing efforts.
Use this process to build up an email list of 5,000 or more customers that have expressed a desire to purchase your products before the crowdfunding campaign launches. This step will be a major factor in determining its ability to achieve crowdfunding success on the very first day of the campaign.
Build an extensive social media network on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and as many other social media networks as possible. Grow your social media network by sharing the content from your developing website as well as distributing leading industry news stories for your industry.
And, as you are tweeting out the leading news articles, begin building a database of the reporters, their twitter handles and any subject matter experts quoted in the articles. Also note the frequently used buzzwords, catch phrases, and learn what formulas a reporter likes to use when they write a story.
Use these terms to SEO your crowdfunding profile so that customers who are searching for similar products and service to buy may find the crowdfunding campaign accidentally.
Follow reporters, industry analysts and subject matter experts and make friends with them, a process known as building media relations. Learn what they care about, what they do for fun, and what subject matters they like to talk about.
There is a huge difference in trying to pitch a reporter with a cold, un-researched email versus building a relationship with them before asking them to write a story for you. This strategy should also be used to target angel investors, venture capitalists, private equity and institutional investors.
The most important thing to let them know is that based on "my" extensive research, the articles that "you've" written, and the "buyers" that have invested/purchased my company's product and services are a "perfect match" for your "editorial environment" or your current "investment portfolio." And it is important to note, that this process usually takes around two-to-six months and needs to be done prior the crowdfunding campaign's launch.
Issue well-written press releases on one of the top four paid wire distribution services. To reporters "free" or "cheap" wire services equal a potential fraudulent company since they are not willing to pay to use a real wire service and, if so, they may not be a reputable company.
Think of press releases as an extension of content marketing. Add links in the press releases to content on your website that goes into a much deeper discussion of the press release's primary message. Include a "call-to-action" that tells readers exactly what you want them to do.
Also, write the press release as if you were writing the press release specifically to fit within a trade publication's editorial environment. The easier it is for reporters and bloggers to cut and paste a story, the easier it will be for you to get media coverage.
And don't think for a minute that a reporter will find your release by themselves. Instead email a copy directly to the reporter, which by now should now know who you are if you have been doing a good job of building a good media relations as detailed above.
Only target publications and media outlets that contain a high composition of the desired target audience with the right purchasing authority and a high propensity to buy your product or service. In other words, if you wouldn't spend any money to place an advertisement in any given publication, don't waste your time trying to pitch your story to a reporter that writes for an audience that really has no interest in purchasing your type of product or service.
All of these crowdfunding campaign prep-work marketing strategies should be done at least two months prior to the crowdfunding campaign. The more months that are spent on prep-work before the campaign begins the better the company will be positioned to achieve success on their crowdfunding campaign.
This entire process will educate the founders and their crowdfunding campaign managers and allow the whole team to learn about the industry, their competitors and how to effectively position their product/service and make it desirable in a very competitive global marketplace.
Why? When potential donors/investors like a crowdfunding campaign's product, the first thing they will do is research how many likes it has on Facebook, what kind of professional resume the founders have built on Linked and how many followers they have on Twitter.
Next, they will do Google searches on the founders' names, the company name and its brand names. If they find very little or nothing when searching for information on the company, the crowdfunding campaign will be doomed because it means the company clearly does not understand marketing, social media or PR.
However, if there are several pages of Google search results with news stories, press releases, product photos and a huge following on social media, this means that the founders are dedicated, hard-working employees that have exemplified a better than average chance of being successful long after their crowdfunding campaign concludes simply because they understand marketing.
If all of these crowdfunding puzzle pieces are in the correct place, potential crowdfunders will be convinced that there is a very good chance of receiving the high-tech gadget they want to pre-order to help the company get off the ground.
What is the biggest unexpected problem crowdfunders face?
The single biggest problem that founders and crowdfunding campaign managers face is not putting together a realistic marketing budget. It will cost at least $20k to shoot a great crowdfunding video and spend several months mastering the marketing prep-work outlined above.
For example, if you went and hired someone off the street and paid them $7.25 times 40 hours a week times 4 weeks a month times 3 months in a prep-work marketing program, that would equate a marketing budget of $3,480.
The reality is that most good marketing people will bill out at least $25 per hour and great talent will bill out at $100 or more per hour.
So using this math, crowdfunding campaigns should plan to spend at least $15,000 for marketing, social media, and PR support and another $5,000 to shoot a great pitch video and write a well-written crowdfunding campaign profile with language that sells. The campaigns that are raising millions of dollars are typically spending at least $50,000+ on one or more forms of digital advertising networks.
There is a whole sub-crowdfunding industry that will offer press releases, backer programs, social media posts, etc. for a couple of hundred bucks. The problem is that they simply will not provide the success that crowdfunding campaign managers are hoping to receive. These companies know that founders don't have much money, but are willing to take whatever they can get.
The same is true for marketing companies that promise to work for a 35% post-paid commission after the campaign ends. The problem is that several days into a crowdfunding campaign that raises hardly any money, these commission-only companies will sever their ties, move onto the next campaign with a better chance of being successful and leave struggling founders hanging out to dry.
We get calls from angry crowdfunding campaign managers all the time that have gone through this disappointing experience. There is no such thing as a "Free Lunch."
What do crowdfunders need do to achieve excellent results for their campaigns?
In our four years of working with founders on their crowdfunding campaigns, we have seen a trend that is worth pointing out. The single best strategy to prepare for any type of crowdfunding campaign for any founder, entrepreneur, startup or existing small business is to perform an in-depth competitive analysis on as many competitors as possible.
This means researching a minimum of 100 campaigns on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The same is true for equity crowdfunding campaigns. Examine successful campaigns as well as ones that have failed.
How are their crowdfunding pitch videos shot?
How are their crowdfunding profiles written?
What perks sold the best/worst and how were they worded and priced?
What was their original crowdfunding goal?
Even better is to search for companies that failed on their first campaign and then raised millions of dollars on their second campaign, such as the "Coolest Cooler," and then examine what the changed between the first and second try.
The second most important thing that successful crowdfunding campaigns need to have is enough support from family and friends to raise the first 30% of the crowdfunding goal.
Nothing is worse than a campaign that only raises $100 during the first several days.
This is why smart founders will set their goal as low as possible so that they can raise 50% of the goal on the first day. A low goal doesn't mean they can't raise a million dollars!
What is the number one piece of advice for anyone wanting to do a Kickstarter or Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign?
We highly recommend taking out a yellow writing tablet and going to Crowdfunding PR's free crowdfunding training classes at https://crowdfundingtrainingclasses.wordpress.com.
Crowdfunding PR Offers Crowdfunding Training Classes to Help Campaign Managers Plan Cost-Effective Marketing Campaigns Using Social Media, PR, Email and Content Marketing
Reading through these free tutorials will educate founders on the various components of the crowdfunding process. For each section, founders should write down their thoughts about what they might want to do to raise money for their own crowdfunding campaign.
Next, take advantage of Crowdfunding PR's free 30-minute telephone consultations for founders that are considering launching a crowdfunding campaign. If they are willing to learn about crowdfunding first and then write down their initial thoughts on what they might like to do with their campaign, it will lead to a much better first conversation on what they want to achieve with their Kickstarter, Indiegogo or Title III/Title IV equity crowdfunding campaign.
Call Crowdfunding PR at (512) 627-6622 to setup a call!
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Crowdfunding PR Offers Startups New Service to Build Investor Databases for Title III and Title IV Reg. A+ Mini IPO Crowdfunding Campaigns to Target Precise Lists of Angel, Venture Capital and Private Equity Investors
Investor relations teams can now search through over 175,000 angel, equity and venture capital investors, analyze 575,000 of their prior investments and then target a very precise list of potential investors
Crowdfunding PR Shows Startups How to Build Investor Databases for Title III and Title IV, Reg. A+ Crowdfunding Campaigns to Target Precise Lists of Angel, Private Equity and VC Investors
New York City, New York – Crowdfunding PR's new investor marketing database service allows equity crowdfunding campaign managers to drill down inside private equity and venture capital firms to find highly-qualified principals, partners, portfolio managers and family offices with the highest propensity to invest in their type of product/service and do sorts by vertical business segments, by geographical locations and by types of deals such as seed capital, private equity, series A/B, late-stage funding rounds and many, many other searchable financial database sorting characteristics, variables and demographics.
"The greatest challenge for startups, entrepreneurs and growing small businesses is finding potential angel investors, private equity investors and/or building out their own private investment syndicate of investors with a high propensity to invest in similar types deals as the one they want to pitch to investors," said Robert Hoskins, Crowdfunding PR's Director of Investor Relations. "The same need is present for the hundreds of new equity crowdfunding platforms that have launched new equity crowdfunding platforms in the past twelve months. Crowdfunding PR can utilize the investor database to market any deal on any equity crowdfunding platform to a very wide, but yet very precise and carefully selected list of angel, private equity and VC investors."
The new investor database provides private investment information on the end-to-end fundraising process. From initial exits to fund returns, it offers the best information available for the complete lifecycle of private investing. This includes Limited Partner (LP) commitments, fundraising, remaining dry powder in funds, deals, company evaluations and fund performance as well as the service providers, executives, and lead partners behind the deals.
The private investor database provides clients with access to stats to build pitch books, contacts to setup road tours, run private and public comps, source co-investors, model cash flows, conduct competitive analysis, follow the entire venture capital (VC) marketplace, build and expand investor networks, target deal makers and identify private equity (PE) and VC firms actively doing deals. The quality of work that can be turned around on a compressed timeline is nothing short of amazing and will be 10 times more efficient and 3 times to 5 times more accurate than other types of private investment information that can be found online via Google and LinkedIn.
If your startup or existing business needs help building and an investor database, creating an effective pitch deck, building a direct email marketing program and/or scheduling an investor "dog and pony" roadshow, please call Robert Hoskins at (512) 627-6622 or contact him via @Crowdfunding_PR on Twitter.
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Analyze Investor's Past/Current Deals
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On a regular basis, Mr. Hoskins consults on a regular basis with crowdfunding campaign managers as well as crowdfunding sites, portals and platforms to deliver successful crowdfunding marketing campaigns.
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Crowdfunding PR Rolls Out Title III Equity Crowdfunding 2-Month Prep-Work Programs to Launch More Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns
The crowdfunding prep work program helps entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses amass a large crowd of followers on social media and utilizes PR to generate hundreds of articles on leading newspapers, TV/radio stations, trade publications and leading blogs
Austin, Texas (May 16, 2016) – Want to learn how to launch a successful Title III crowdfunding campaign on one of top 100 equity crowdfunding sites? To help crowdfunders achieve this elusive goal, Crowdfunding PR (http://crowdfundingPR.wordpress.com) announced a special two-month Crowdfunding Prep Work Program that will significantly improve a crowdfunding campaign's success rate by amplifying its founder's social media profiles and by utilizing an effective crowdfunding PR campaign to generate hundreds of stories in the electronic news media prior to the crowdfunding campaign's launch.
How to Plan a Successful Crowdfunding PR Campaigns, a Step-by-Step Process
One of the biggest challenges that most crowdfunding campaigns face are weak social media credentials and the lack of a large group of social media followers that are needed to support crowdfunding campaigns with donations and/or investments. Building strong, professional Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter profiles and amassing the largest possible group of followers on social media networks is crucial to conducting a successful crowdfunding campaign.
The second biggest task is generating stories on electronic news media outlets and blogs prior to launching a crowdfunding campaign. Not only can a well-orchestrated crowdfunding PR campaign generate hundreds of free, positive trade press articles to support the fundraising effort, but the same targeted, search engine optimized press releases will continue to drive new investors, potential customers and sales/distribution partners to the business long after the crowdfunding campaign ends.
"What many entrepreneurs and startups need to recognize is how important social media is in the world of crowdfunding," said Robert Hoskins, Crowdfunding PR's Director of Crowdfunding Campaigns. "The very first thing that an investor/donor does when they read through a crowdfunding profile they like is to look up the company and its team members on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to check out their credentials. Having a strong resume on LinkedIn, lots of likes on Facebook and an army of followers on Twitter is crucial to determining the strength of the team and the likelihood that they have the tenacity and skill set to deliver on their crowdfunding campaign's promises."
"Next, most investors/donors will do a Google search to see what they can find online for both the company and its team members," Hoskins continued. "With a two-month crowdfunding prep-work campaign there will be several pages of search engine results that link to the client's website pages, their social media posts/profiles and the crowdfunding campaign's prep pages that will point to their live fundraising campaign on Kickstarter.com, Indiegogo.com, GoFundMe.com or any of the other 2016 Top 100 Global Crowdfunding sites."
If you would like to speak with a crowdfunding PR, social media and/or marketing expert regarding your crowdfunding campaign please call Robert Hoskins at (512) 627-6622 or fill out the contact form at: https://crowdfundingpr.wordpress.com/about-crowdfunding-pr-campaigns/ to setup a telephone consultation.
Mr. Hoskins is one of the crowdfunding industry's foremost crowdfunding advocates and has amassed a huge social media following that is dedicated to supporting donation-, rewards- and equity-based crowdfunding campaigns. Due to the overwhelming demand from the general public for crowdfunding information, he empowers entrepreneurs with some of the internet's most affordable ($20) online crowdfunding training classes, which provide insight to startups around the world on a 24 x 7 basis.
Mr. Hoskins adamantly believes that the crowdfunding industry will empower everyone in the United States to rediscover the possibility of living the American dream with a little hard work, a great business idea and the dedication to researching, planning and launching a well-thought-out crowdfunding campaign. He consults on a regular basis with crowdfunding campaign managers as well as crowdfunding sites, portals and platforms to deliver successful crowdfunding marketing campaigns.
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Merit Harbor Group's Boutique Investment Banking Arm offers Startups Crowdfunding Consulting Assistance
Boutique middle-market investment bank offers crowdfunding assistance to late-stage startups and growing companies
Seattle, Washington – Boutique investment banking firm, Merit Harbor Group, now offers expanded capital requisition and crowdfunding assistance ahead of the full release of Title III crowdfunding. The firm, which provides a myriad of expert consulting services to startups, growth and established businesses, is positioning itself to be a market leader in some of the new equity crowdfunding rules and regulations.
Merit Harbor Group's investment bank works directly with startups via crowdfunding
"As we get closer to the full implementation of Title III equity crowdfunding, our team is gearing up to assist companies in raising the capital they need," says company Director, Nate Nead. Title III equity crowdfunding, which allows small businesses to raise a maximum of a million dollars in any given twelve-month period, is on the firm's radar as another method available for smaller companies seeking access to capital.
Equity crowdfunding, an alternative financing medium for small business, allows companies seeking capital to source it through individual investors on portals built for the purpose of information and promotion. The company maintains its own proprietary list of both accredited and non-accredited investors who have expressed keen interest in seeing available deals from real estate to software. The company also maintains key relationships with other equity crowdfunding portals where companies can syndicate for broader exposure.
"We are excited about the partnerships we have formed with other portals and we are confident these alliances will provide a great benefit to our crowdfunding clients who are seeking to raise capital," says Nead. While the company acts as a traditional investment bank, advising middle-market clients on merger and acquisition transactions, the firm's and its principals and investment bankers see the wisdom in marrying crowdfunding with traditional middle market business finance. "We are confident that crowdfunding and traditional business finance are not mutually exclusive. While it may take some time for the two to play well together, we are hoping to be able to assist when that marriage becomes more real," he says.
Merit Harbor Group is a middle market investment bank with offices in multiple cities across the United States. The company provides merger, acquisition and capital raising assistance to post-revenue startups and growing companies across nearly every market sector. The company assists promising companies in structured growth before a meaningful exit via merger or acquisition. The company's licensed investment bankers in Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Portland.
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Crowdfunding PR Rolls Out 2-Month Crowdfunding Prep Work Program to Help Startups Learn How to Launch More Successful Equity & Rewards Crowdfunding Campaigns
The Crowdfunding Prep Work Program Helps Clients Amass a Large Crowd of Followers on Social Media and Utilizes PR to Generate Hundreds of Articles on Leading Edge News Outlets and Blogs
Austin, Texas – Want to learn how to launch a successful Title III equity crowdfunding campaign? To help crowdfunders achieve this elusive goal, today Crowdfunding PR announced a special two-month Crowdfunding Prep Work Program that will significantly improve a crowdfunding campaign's success rate by amplifying its founder's social media profiles and by utilizing an effective crowdfunding PR campaign to generate hundreds of stories in the electronic news media prior to the crowdfunding campaign's launch.
Learn How to Plan a Successful Title III Equity-based Crowdfunding Campaign Using Cost-Effective PR, Marketing and Social Media Campaigns
Crowdfunding Social Media Campaigns
The second biggest task is generating stories on electronic news media outlets and blogs prior to launching a crowdfunding campaign. Not only can a well-orchestrated crowdfunding PR campaign generate hundreds of free, positive trade press articles to support the fundraising effort, but the same targeted, search-engine-optimized press releases will continue to drive new investors, potential customers and sales/distribution partners to the business long after the crowdfunding campaign ends.
"What many entrepreneurs and startups need to recognize is how important social media is in the world of crowdfunding," said Robert Hoskins, Crowdfunding PR's Director of Crowdfunding Campaigns. "The very first thing that an investor/donor does when they read through a crowdfunding profile they like is to look up the company and its team on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to check out their credentials. Having a strong resume on LinkedIn, lots of likes on Facebook and an army of followers on Twitter is crucial to determining the strength of the team and the likelihood that they have the tenacity and skill set to deliver on their crowdfunding campaign's promises."
"Next, most investors/donors will do a Google search to see what they can find online for both the company and its team members," Hoskins continued. "With a two-month crowdfunding prep work campaign there will be several pages of search engine results that link to the client's website pages, their social media posts/profiles and the crowdfunding campaign's temporary landing page until the GoFundMe.com, Indiegogo.com,Kickstarter.com or Title III equity crowdfunding campaign goes live."
Crowdfunding PR Campaign Consulting
If you would like to speak with a crowdfunding PR, social media and/or marketing expert regarding your crowdfunding campaign please call Robert Hoskins at (512) 627-6622 or fill out the contact form at: https://crowdfundingpr.wordpress.com/about-crowdfunding-pr-campaigns/ to setup a telephone consultation appointment.
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SEC to Vote on Final Rules for Title III Crowdfunding this Friday, October 30, 2015!
Title III Crowdfunding is over 3 1/2 years late, but the United States now sits on the cusp of what Pres. Obama called a "Game Changer" for entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses!
Washington, DC – According to Sherwood Neisss, Crowdfund Capital Advisors, "the SEC plans to vote this Friday, October 30th, on the final Title III Crowdfunding Rules!
Woodie, Zak and I will never forget sitting in the Rose Garden of the White House and seeing President Obama sign the JOBS Act into law on April 5, 2012. There are many in our industry and in the traditional financial and legal communities that have said "Title III is dead" or "This will never happen."
We have always believed in the inevitability of this day … and now it has arrived. On Friday, the SEC will prove them wrong. While we have at times been vocal critics of the slow speed of this process, we have always believed that this vote would happen and that crowdfunding for everyone would become law in the United States.
Friday will be a special day for us for 2 reasons. In January, 2011 we began our journey in Washington DC to do what everyone told us was impossible: to modernize 80-year-old securities laws about how private capital could be raised so that we could use the Web and social media to offer debt and equity securities to Americans.
5 years later, starting in early 2016, business owners in Eugene Oregon, Alexandria, Louisiana, Tarrytown, New York, Miami Florida or any other city or town in the United States will have the ability to raise capital from their families, customers and communities. Will all be successful in raising this money? No. But like in so many other things they will have a real opportunity to do so. That is all anyone asks for. A fair shot at their dream.
Thank you so much to ALL the people that were part of this massive effort in Washington DC (including Democrats, Republicans and Independents), across the United States and around the world for believing that this was a worthy cause and for working so hard to make it happen. The industry has been formed here in the United States and is ready to work responsibly with innovators and investors to create a transparent and efficient market.
This will also bring a great deal of curiosity by traditional investors, to a new sector of the global FinTech innovation that we have been curating and helping to build globally for the last 3 years. Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East are all poised to embrace this new form of finance and we will continue investing and working in these regions to advance the global crowdfunding agenda.
Please let us know what you are working on and if there are ways for us to support your technology solutions, policy needs or connectivity to this fast moving market."
Jason and Woodie
Crowdfund Capital Advisors
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Utilizing Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns to Cross Pollinate College Education with the Opportunity to Launch Real World Startups and Conduct Equity Fundraising Campaigns
Providing students with a way to contribute their skills to a steady stream of equity crowdfunding campaigns is a great way to gain valuable industry experience and make money
Real World Benefits of Equity Crowdfunding Campaigns
Depending on the strength of their various colleges, equity crowdfunding programs can help universities begin to leverage the resources from each college and begin to cross pollinate equity crowdfunding campaigns by harnessing the strength of the entire student body.
Providing students with a way to contribute their skills to a steady stream of equity crowdfunding campaigns would be a great way for them to gain valuable industry experience while earning a college degree.
Instead of working in non-paid internships performing menial tasks, students can invest their time and sweat equity in real world startups by helping startups work their way through the seed investment raising process. Getting paid with equity shares versus the opportunity to add one line-item bullet point to their resume is a much more attractive option for students worried about paying off their college tuition.
By providing any of the following services below to crowdfunding campaigns, students would benefit from the opportunity to practice their intended field of study as well as enjoy the potential payoff by aggressively seeking risk, innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities. As a part of the mentoring process students and faculty could setup a management consulting firm that specializes in equity crowdfunding campaigns.
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Learn more about crowdfunding:
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Using Equity Crowdfunding Sites to Finance Incubators and Accelerators;
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Splitting Revenue from Incubator and Accelerator Mentors Consulting Fees;
Streamlining Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs);
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1st Texas Equity Crowdfunding Community Outreach Event to Unveil Texas Crowdfunding Portals at Texas St. University
Learn How to Raise Money for Startups and Businesses with Texas Equity Crowdfunding Sites and a Crowd of 20 Million Accredited & Unaccredited Investors
Texas Equity Crowdfunding Event Agenda
Mission: To educate entrepreneurs, startups and any existing Texas-based business on how they can utilize a Texas Crowdfunding Portal (TCP) to market a Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) to over 20 million non-accredited and accredited Texas investors to raise startup venture capital.
Tonight's guest speakers will cover the following information:
Information on the new Intrastate Texas Crowd Exemption Rules
What information needs to be filed with the Texas State Securities Board
What type of disclosures are required by every Texas crowdfunding platform
What type of marketing can be used to raise awareness for equity investment opportunities
What qualifications need to be met before investing on Texas crowdfunding platforms
What precautions should be taken prior to making any financial investments
Crowdfunding Platforms:
Manny Fernandez – Chief Executive Officer, DreamFunded.com
Shayne Forsyth – Co-Founder, TexasCrowdfunding.com
Vicent Petrescu – Chief Executive Officer, Texas.TruCrowd.com
Crowdfunding Escrow Service:
Josh Duckworth – Director of Marketing, GoldStarTrust.com
Question & Answer Session:
Panel Discussion Q&A
Research Links:
Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) Crowdfunding Rules:
http://www.ssb.state.tx.us/Important_Notice/Texas_Intrastate_Crowdfunding.php
Texas Crowdfunding Network:
http://www.meetup.com/austin-crowdfunding-network
Texas Crowdfunding Blog:
https://crowdfundingpr.wordpress.com
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Caregivers Alberta is marking 20 years since its inception. It was founded in 2001 by a group of caregivers looking to shift the support approach away from teaching caregivers how to be better at providing care, to providing them with support for their own well-being.
"There are many supports in the health care system for someone experiencing illness, disability, or age-related needs. But there are not services available to the caregivers of those individuals," explains Johnna Lowther, Caregivers Alberta's Director of Programs and Services. "We exist to support those family and friends providing care."
The Caregivers Alberta website states more than one in four Canadian adults is a caregiver; the care they provide is worth an estimated $66 billion a year. They can be any age, dealing with any caregiving situation. The time commitment is significant, as are the stresses: from burnout, to strained relationships, financial hardships, employment impacts, and more, depending on circumstances.
Just as significant: the supports Caregivers Alberta offers. An important pillar of the organization's mission is helping caregivers connect with others, navigate the system, and look after themselves while providing care. It all begins with the first step – reaching out to Caregivers Alberta. Lowther says this often provides an immediate release of tension. "We're here to be the compassionate, empathetic listening ear."
But it is so much more than that. Caregivers Alberta calls itself 'an organization of caregivers, for caregivers.' Many of the staff are either caregivers currently or have been at some point in their lives. This element of its identity is so important, the organization even identifies on its website the staff members who are or have been caregivers.
"We truly understand what the clients are going through," says Lowther. She herself has been a caregiver. In sharing her story with ESCC about caring for a loved one with a serious illness, she expressed the importance of having a support system outside your inner circle. "You need someone that isn't your immediate respite ... you need some peer support people," she says. "It feels safer. They are far enough away from you that you can let your guard down and express what you're thinking and feeling without fear of judgement."
Peer groups are one of many supports Caregivers Alberta offers, connecting people via the Caregiver Support Community. There are also various education sessions and workshops such as the COMPASS for the Caregiver program, a supportive workshop focused on caregiver well-being, self-care and finding balance while caregiving.
Clients are introduced to these supports after making that initial call to Caregivers Alberta. Support Coordinators are there to listen and help the caller figure out which avenue might meet their needs. Those needing additional guidance might be connected to a Caregiver Coach, who provides one-on-one support to help the client identify their needs and lay out next steps.
One of the most identified needs: respite. The need has only increased during the pandemic, as respite options such as day programs have been unable to offer in-person activities.
"You have all the caregivers and the clients of those programs who are isolated and stuck at home with no respite," explains Lowther. "That's a huge, immediate burden that just added more stress to caregivers."
In adapting to the new environment, Caregivers Alberta reached out to one of its community partners, ElderCare Edmonton. The conversations ultimately produced Well Connected, a program delivered by ElderCare Edmonton which combines physical exercise, cognitive activities, and entertainment in a virtual environment (read more about the program here). It provides engagement and socialization for the care recipient, and peace of mind for the caregiver.
"It's been a good outlet," says Lowther. "It's respite care because the attention is taken off of them, the responsibility is off them for all of that engagement."
The Well Connected program is just one example of the collaborative nature of Caregivers Alberta's work. In banding together with other community organizations, it can better fill the needs of a diverse group of clients and caregiving situations.
"We provide any and all levels of support that we can possibly offer," explains Engagement Coordinator Angus Macdonell. "Which is why we have so many partnerships because if we can't do it ourselves, then we reach out… it's not about who's on top of the totem pole, it's about how we can work together to achieve the same goals."
That mindset may be especially crucial in the years to come - as our population ages, the reliance on caregivers may increase. Macdonell stresses it's more important than ever to shift mindsets, break down stigmas, and continue to support the caregiver.
"There has to be, I believe, a complete shift in the way we look at illness," he says. "A lot of people believe that requiring care is bad – to them, it's negative somehow. We need to have a much bigger conversation."
That conversation can't happen without the expertise of organizations like Caregivers Alberta. In addition to providing supports directly to caregivers it also advocates for the caregiver in community service systems and public policy. With such an integral role in what can be a complex environment, the message to not only caregivers, but also organizations that interact with caregivers is actually quite simple. "You are not alone," Lowther says. "We are here to help."
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By Stephanie Dearing Sep 4, 2009 in Business
The 95 year old bus company claimed that government regulations are putting the Canadian company in a precarious financial position. Federal Transport Minister John Baird fired back, saying the company was "bullying" the government and consumers.
Canada's Federal Transport Minister John Baird, never one to mince his words, has declared that Greyhound is bullying the governments of Ontario and Manitoba with the "threat" to cut service. He also said that Transport Canada is not responsible for bus service in Canada.
Greyhound announced yesterday that it was ending service to Manitoba in 30 days. Service in northern Ontario will end December 2nd.
The largest North American provider of intercity bus transportation, serving more than 3,700 destinations across the continent announced cuts to its service to Manitoba and northern Ontario yesterday. The announcement caused distress for riders who rely upon the service. The company had also said that it was reviewing service to the rest of western and northern Canada, and it was possible that service would be cut to western provinces and the Northwest Territories and Yellowknife. The company has claimed that decreases in the number of riders on its buses are to blame, as are federal regulations that force the company to "subsidize" routes with few riders.
Greyhound said it requires funding to continue the service, and has asked the federal government for $15 million. The company also wants to be let off the hook in terms of rules that ensure service is provided to smaller communities in remote areas. The federal government has refused the funding. Baird said that Ottawa was concerned about the looming service cuts.
Canadians have been asking for federal investment in national transportation for years. The Canadian Urban Transit Association notes that Canada is the only OECD country that lacks policies to ensure investment in public transportation.
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Regression diagnostics¶

This example file shows how to use a few of the statsmodels regression diagnostic tests in a real-life context. You can learn about more tests and find out more information about the tests here on the Regression Diagnostics page.

Note that most of the tests described here only return a tuple of numbers, without any annotation. A full description of outputs is always included in the docstring and in the online statsmodels documentation. For presentation purposes, we use the zip(name,test) construct to pretty-print short descriptions in the examples below.

Estimate a regression model¶

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%matplotlib inline

[2]:

from statsmodels.compat import lzip

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import statsmodels.formula.api as smf
import statsmodels.stats.api as sms
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Load data
url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vincentarelbundock/Rdatasets/master/csv/HistData/Guerry.csv'
dat = pd.read_csv(url)

# Fit regression model (using the natural log of one of the regressors)
results = smf.ols('Lottery ~ Literacy + np.log(Pop1831)', data=dat).fit()

# Inspect the results
print(results.summary())

                            OLS Regression Results
==============================================================================
Dep. Variable:                Lottery   R-squared:                       0.348
Model:                            OLS   Adj. R-squared:                  0.333
Method:                 Least Squares   F-statistic:                     22.20
Date:                Thu, 06 Aug 2020   Prob (F-statistic):           1.90e-08
Time:                        13:04:43   Log-Likelihood:                -379.82
No. Observations:                  86   AIC:                             765.6
Df Residuals:                      83   BIC:                             773.0
Df Model:                           2
Covariance Type:            nonrobust
===================================================================================
                      coef    std err          t      P>|t|      [0.025      0.975]
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Intercept         246.4341     35.233      6.995      0.000     176.358     316.510
Literacy           -0.4889      0.128     -3.832      0.000      -0.743      -0.235
np.log(Pop1831)   -31.3114      5.977     -5.239      0.000     -43.199     -19.424
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Omnibus:                        3.713   Durbin-Watson:                   2.019
Prob(Omnibus):                  0.156   Jarque-Bera (JB):                3.394
Skew:                          -0.487   Prob(JB):                        0.183
Kurtosis:                       3.003   Cond. No.                         702.
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Notes:
[1] Standard Errors assume that the covariance matrix of the errors is correctly specified.

Normality of the residuals¶

Jarque-Bera test:

[3]:

name = ['Jarque-Bera', 'Chi^2 two-tail prob.', 'Skew', 'Kurtosis']
test = sms.jarque_bera(results.resid)
lzip(name, test)

[3]:

[('Jarque-Bera', 3.3936080248431666),
 ('Chi^2 two-tail prob.', 0.1832683123166337),
 ('Skew', -0.48658034311223375),
 ('Kurtosis', 3.003417757881633)]

Omni test:

[4]:

name = ['Chi^2', 'Two-tail probability']
test = sms.omni_normtest(results.resid)
lzip(name, test)

[4]:

[('Chi^2', 3.713437811597181), ('Two-tail probability', 0.15618424580304824)]

Influence tests¶

Once created, an object of class OLSInfluence holds attributes and methods that allow users to assess the influence of each observation. For example, we can compute and extract the first few rows of DFbetas by:

[5]:

from statsmodels.stats.outliers_influence import OLSInfluence
test_class = OLSInfluence(results)
test_class.dfbetas[:5,:]

[5]:

array([[-0.00301154,  0.00290872,  0.00118179],
       [-0.06425662,  0.04043093,  0.06281609],
       [ 0.01554894, -0.03556038, -0.00905336],
       [ 0.17899858,  0.04098207, -0.18062352],
       [ 0.29679073,  0.21249207, -0.3213655 ]])

Explore other options by typing dir(influence_test)

Useful information on leverage can also be plotted:

[6]:

from statsmodels.graphics.regressionplots import plot_leverage_resid2
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8,6))
fig = plot_leverage_resid2(results, ax = ax)

Other plotting options can be found on the Graphics page.

Multicollinearity¶

Condition number:

[7]:

np.linalg.cond(results.model.exog)

[7]:

702.1792145490062

Heteroskedasticity tests¶

Breush-Pagan test:

[8]:

name = ['Lagrange multiplier statistic', 'p-value',
        'f-value', 'f p-value']
test = sms.het_breuschpagan(results.resid, results.model.exog)
lzip(name, test)

[8]:

[('Lagrange multiplier statistic', 4.893213374093957),
 ('p-value', 0.08658690502352209),
 ('f-value', 2.503715946256434),
 ('f p-value', 0.08794028782673029)]

Goldfeld-Quandt test

[9]:

name = ['F statistic', 'p-value']
test = sms.het_goldfeldquandt(results.resid, results.model.exog)
lzip(name, test)

[9]:

[('F statistic', 1.1002422436378152), ('p-value', 0.3820295068692507)]

Linearity¶

Harvey-Collier multiplier test for Null hypothesis that the linear specification is correct:

[10]:

name = ['t value', 'p value']
test = sms.linear_harvey_collier(results)
lzip(name, test)

[10]:

[('t value', -1.0796490077823977), ('p value', 0.28346392475408044)]

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You realize after the Savannah port is complete truck traffic will increase by 60% in metro Atlanta. In case you have not noticed with have massive traffic issues already. People and products stuck in traffic means less business, not good for the economy. And we have NO MONEY to pay for the needed improvements when the port is completed, let alone not enough for current issues. Now you are proposing even less money, while cars get better MPG, lowering tax revenue to pay for need infrastructure. You do understand the math? Please help us all understand your plan to deal with this issue? How does your current proposal even make any sense if you care about jobs and the economy?
Hey, maybe we could do a tax on gays. An extra sales tax for anything that has a rainbow on it?
Well, I think the $5 bed tax on lodging should be repealed. It wasn't fair for that industry to be blindsided by such an arbitrary tax. How did they even get to $5?
I'm a fairly budget-oriented traveler when I go on vacations. At some motels, you might end up paying a 15-20% on your room depending on the county and room rate. As far as the logic of needing roads to get to the hotel/motel, sure I get it, but you could apply that to almost anything you use a car to get to. What about a drive-through tax?
Yes, cars will keep getting more efficient and there likely will even be a day where we see a huge drop off in gas-powered cars. What are we going to do then? At this point I think we need to stick at taxes at the pump, that is the most effective user-pays system.
PS: I will try to do a little research later but it is common knowledge that cars cause little road damage compared to trucks. There was a study which suggested that one truck caused road wear equivalent to 10,000 cars. Is this somehow addressed on the state level? It looks like the diesel tax is a little higher than the gas.
I'll venture an educated guess. The big difference between the House and Senate versions of HB 170 was that the Senate version tried to have a lower excise tax than the House version in order to keep Georgia gas prices competitive with our neighbors in SC, NC, TN, AL, and FL The worry was that Georgia residents close to neighboring states would drive across the border for gas, and while they were at it, do their other shopping there.
In the end, though, negotiators came up with a number that they needed to raise via something else than the gas tax to get revenue to where it needed to be. That number was $150 million. And they only had a day or two to get there, since time was running out on the session, and no one wanted nothing to pass.
The desire, perhaps, was to do the best the legislature could to have the tax affect non-residents as much as possible. That's why a hotel-motel tax sounded appealing: most visitors would be from out of town,. But, how much to charge?
The best way to deal with it might have been to consider things like room pricing, whether a state employee was staying at the hotel, how long the stay was, and other factors. That way you could have done something more progressive where the local Motel Six would charge a buck, while the Ritz would charge $10. And the state wouldn't have to chip in $millions for its employees staying at hotels.
But those figures weren't available within the short time window available to get the bill passed. What was available was the total number of room nights the Peach States major hotels and motels (but not B&Bs) were occupied. Knowing that number made it easy to divide $150 million needed by the number of room nights to come up with a figure rounded to $5. And, that's what passed.
Yeah, it's not as if the state's transportation funding shortfall hadn't been developing for the past 15 years or anything.
The hotel industry got sucker punched. The industry should've made more campaign contributions and done more wining and dining.
But hey, trust the General Assembly with tax reform!
How would you pay for obvious transportation needs? You are not suggesting the Mckoon approach of clicking your heals 3 times and making wishes?
This guy has not only become the local purveyor of red meat but also now with the infamous red meat that tried to pass itself off as the other white meat.
Josh McKoon is obviously running for statewide office in 2018. Anybody want to hazard a guess at which post? SoS?


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Riddle Me This: Why Aren't The Shorties In The UFC?
By Eric Kowal 1 year ago
The one question I often hear from mixed martial arts fans is, "Why isn't 'Shorty' in the UFC?" It's a very good question, but the better question is, "Why aren't the Shorties in the UFC?"
Depending on where you fall demographically you could be talking about the three organizational flyweight champion Sean 'Shorty Rock' Santella or the two-division champion Jose 'Shorty' Torres.
Me being a native of the east coast, I was introduced to 'Shorty Rock' before I knew who 'Shorty' was. Confused yet?
What we have here is a discussion about two top flyweight fighters who both deserve to be at the top of the list in the discussion of "best flyweight not signed to the UFC."
Aside from both men earning multiple titles and boasting impressive numbers and records inside the cage, the UFC will be visiting each of their home states in the coming months, and neither fighter has yet to be considered (at least publicly) to be on either card.
Santella, from New Jersey, has long been in the discussion of earning a shot in the UFC, and as of now, has not been offered a fight for the April 21 fight card in Atlantic City.
Torres is a native of Chicago, Illinois. The UFC stops at the United Center in Chicago for UFC 225 on June 9. He sits atop FloCombat's list of flyweight prospect rankings for the month of March. The one factor that has kept Santella off the list is that is restricted to fighters under 30-years of age.
Right now Santella is booked to defend his PA Cage Fight title when he meets Charles Johnson at PA Cage Fight 31, March 31. The event takes place at the Woodlands Inn in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Santella won the vacant title at PA Cage Fight 29 with a third round submission over Nate Williams in September 2017. "Shorty Rock" also holds flyweight titles with Cage Fury Fighting Championships and V3 Fights. With three consecutive belts and a professional MMA record of 19-6-1 it is no secret that he is one of the best unsigned 125-pound fighters on the planet.
Torres holds both the flyweight and bantamweight titles for Titan Fighting Championship and is undefeated as a professional at 7-0. Before transitioning to the pro level, Torres amassed an impeccable 25-1 amateur record but most websites will give you a tale of anywhere from 13-20 wins and no losses depending on where you find his record.
When you look at what the two fighters have accomplished and are continuing to accomplish it is hard to pinpoint why these two combatants have not yet been signed by the UFC?
Jose "Shorty" Torres
Santella was to serve as a replacement fighter for a UFC 201 bout in 2016 and was to take on Wilson Reis, however, within hours after the organization made the statement on live TV, the fight was off due to a medical issue. Months later in early 2017 Santella flew to San Diego where he took on Team Alpha Male's Joseph Morales. UFC President Dana White was in attendance filming for his show, 'Dana White: Lookin' For a Fight.' It was known that if Morales won the fight, he would be signed to the UFC. There was however no mention of that if Santella won which was strange due to him winning yet another fight between the UFC 201 cancellation and the contest in San Diego. Since the loss to Morales, Santella has racked up three consecutive wins.
Torres continues to fluctuate between the 125-pound and 135-pound divisions and has pestered UFC matchmaker Mick Maynard so much that Maynard blocked him on social media.
Will either of these two outstanding flyweights find a home in the UFC? Will they have a chance to compete in the octagon in 2018? Could it be in the upcoming Atlantic City or Chicago shows?
Unfortunately only the UFC can answer those questions, but I sure would like to know why the question even has to be asked.
Sign the Shorties to a UFC contract.
Tags: flyweight, Jose Torres, Sean Santella
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M'laya to negotiate for 90:10 funding pattern from Centre
By By Our Reporter On Apr 25, 2016
Smart City project
SHILLONG: In view of the Central government's plans to develop smart cities across the country on a 50:50 funding pattern, the State government has asserted that Meghalaya would push the Centre to stick to the 90:10 formula.
Informing this here on Sunday, Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh said the State government will impress upon the Central government not to have a blanket plan for the entire country since states like Meghalaya have their own peculiar situations.
"If the Centre does not agree to our argument, we will negotiate further with them," she said.
It may be mentioned that a meeting was recently held where the State government discussed its second proposal to bid for the Smart City project.
She also said that the State cannot agree to the 50:50 formulae since Meghalaya's resources are limited and dwindling.
She said that the State government would like to design its own city and the Centre cannot replicate model of other cities for Shillong since the situation is different.
The State government is also sharing notes with Aizawl and other hill stations on the matter of the Smart City project to see how the other hill stations are planning and executing their bid for the project.
Earlier, the Union government had announced the first list of 20 urban areas that would be developed as 'smart cities' with only Guwahati qualifying from among the Northeastern cities and Shillong finding itself on the 70th rank in the list.
Shillong, it may be reminded, is among the 98 cities selected by the Central government for the 'smart city' project which is an area based approach to re-develop an area with modern amenities. The proposed 'smart cities', to be developed in a phased manner, will have smart public transport system and IT enabled solutions, besides others.
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Young girl presents Prince Charles with portrait on canal visit
Feb 2nd 2018 10:35AM
The Prince of Wales came face to face with a portrait of himself - painted by a four-year-old girl.
Bella Bijlmer was with her parents, Anton, 37, and Rachael, 36, and nine-month-old sister Nayla to meet Prince Charles during a visit to Stroud in Gloucestershire on Friday.
The Prince, who is patron of The Canal & River Trust, was visiting the Cotswold town to unveil a plaque marking the restoration of a stretch of canal between Stonehouse and Thrupp.
The Prince of Wales told guests he was very pleased to be visiting as patron of The Canal & River Trust (Ben Birchall/PA)
Bella was waiting patiently with her family, who are from Stroud, when Charles walked up to them and said hello.
The little girl's mother, Rachael Bijlmer, said: "When we saw the Prince was visiting we thought we would come along and see if we could see him.
"Bella has been so excited today. She went to pre-school this morning and told all her friends that she was going to see Prince Charles today.
"The Prince asked her about her painting and where she did it and if Nayla was her little sister and whether she got covered in paint.
"It was really lovely."
Prince Charles met volunteers from the Cotswold Canals Trust who have worked on the project, and took a ride on a narrowboat.
He descended through the Wallbridge Upper Lock, passing through the restored section of canal before cutting a ribbon to mark the completion of Wallbridge Lower Lock and the rejoining of the two canals.
Charles then joined a reception for volunteers and members of the local community where he unveiled a plaque commemorating the event.
He told guests he was very pleased to be visiting as patron of The Canal & River Trust, and praised the work of all the volunteers.
Prince Charles took a ride on a narrowboat in Stroud (Ben Birchall/PA)
"I am so delighted that the restoration of this part of the canal has been completed, particularly as other sections are yet to be restored," he said.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those that have been involved for a long time in this project."
Later the Prince, as president of The Prince's Trust, visited Tetbury-based Timberpride, a sustainable oak merchant which was set up with a loan from the charity in 1995.
During the visit to the workshop, Charles helped put the finishing touches to an oak plaque, which he unveiled to commemorate the visit.


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Rise Of The Machines For Xmas?
12th December, 2016 by yasminelsaie
Once the realm of science fiction, artificial intelligence – in the form of deep learning networks and neural processing of big data – is beginning to make a major splash in the world of business. Whatever field your business may be in, if it's processing any form of data then it's likely that the rise of the machines is going to be behind a serious upheaval sooner rather than later – though, thankfully, not in a Terminator-esque manner.
A Brief History Of AI
Simple artificial intelligences have been around for decades, their ancestry can be traced back to the 1960s with Joseph Weizenbaum's Eliza natural language processing system. Though simple, Eliza proved adept at luring its operator into an admittedly one-sided conversation. This is much like the more powerful AIs today imbuing voice-activated assistant services like Apple's Siri, Google's Now platform, and Microsoft's Cortana with personality. This is in addition to providing useful information mined from the user's contextual data.
For companies that believe AI's use is limited to conversational robots and waves of enemies in popular video games, though, the next few years are likely to come as a shock. AI research is yielding results at an ever-increasing pace. In a very short space of time there is unlikely to be a field not touched by the benefits – and risks – it can bring.
For those doubting the potential for artificial intelligence to make a serious impact on the world of business, there are some big names dropping even bigger money in the fight to prove its worth. Computing giant Intel recently announced the acquisition of AI specialist Nervana Systems in a deal valued at $400 million. This has been done with a view to produce processors capable of accelerating artificial intelligence and deep learning workloads by 2H 2017.
Google, meanwhile, has already launched its own AI accelerator hardware. It's been dubbed the Tensor Processing Unit. Designed for use with Google's TensorFlow deep learning platform, developed by recently acquired AI-focused subsidiary DeepMind, Google's TensorFlow hardware has already proven its worth. It's already helped the company develop a learning the Go champion system capable of easily beating a human. This was a feat previously thought impossible for a computer program to achieve but thanks to Go's staggering complexity it's another obstacle overcome. Outside the realm of games, the same technology powering Google's Go robot is being used in a trial to scan retinal data for signs of macular degeneration before it's even detectable by human specialists.
Microsoft, for its part in the research, has recently teamed up with graphics hardware specialist Nvidia on an AI-specialised supercomputing platform powered by the company's DGX-1 hardware. "Every industry has awoken to the potential of AI," Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, claimed at the device's launch, echoing his partner company's sentiments on the potential for AI to transform the future of business.
The Benefits Of AI
Intel, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia and a host of others wouldn't be splashing the cash quite so heavily were they not sure of the future of AI. It's easy to see why. Even in this relatively early stage of what is increasingly looking like a business revolution there have been countless benefits. For example, artificially intelligent deep learning systems have been used to improve the security of data communications. Search for patterns in customer data, boost the quality of machine translations and even to recognize handwriting, speech and even lip-read from silent video footage, all with accuracy and speed unmatched by human experts and previous state-of-the-art software systems.
In the future, AI is likely to have an increasingly strong impact: the success of Amazon's Echo platform, which provides an always-on microphone in users' homes with a connection to an AI platform dubbed Alexa, has proven that concerns over privacy are often swept away in the face of user-friendly engineering that can scour a person's private data in order to answer questions such as "when's my next flight" or "how are my shares doing?"
Outside user-facing roles, AI will speed data processing and only increase the value of data gathered by businesses. Those who do not analyze their existing data for potentially lucrative correlations are likely to find it easier than ever to do so. While services designed to offer cloud-based data analysis will become increasingly prevalent and profitable.
The Dangers of AI
There are, of course, risks to consider before companies dive head-first into the choppy waters of the AI revolution. At present, there are many competing solutions for both software AI platforms and hardware accelerators to improve their performance. Companies specializing in a single platform may find they have backed the wrong horse should a rival platform romp home to commercial success.
A bigger concern, experts argue, is raised by the ethical considerations both from increasingly powerful artificial intelligences and from our own increasing reliance upon them. Social networking service Facebook recently found itself in hot water when its newsfeed algorithm, a deep-learning system built to replace expensive human editors, promoted fraudulent news stories during the US Presidential elections. While Facebook has claimed the promotion was accidental and inconsequential, it offers a glimpse of a world where information is controlled by machines running algorithms so far removed from anything a human had originally coded as to be incomprehensible. This is something groups like the Partnership on AI, which includes Facebook among its members, are attempting to address.
Whether you're for or against the encroachment of AI on your business, though, one thing is clear: you ignore it at your peril.
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