Can crowdfunding level the legal playing field?

April 23, 2018 Leave a comment

Michael Avenatti, a lawyer for Stormy Daniels, ‘is doing a magnificent job getting the court of public opinion on Stormy's side,’ a lawyer says. Daniels is receiving about $75,000 a week in small donations for her legal fees for her litigation with President Donald Trump. (Jennifer S. Altman/The Washington Post)

Porn star Stormy Daniels wants help with legal expenses after filing a lawsuit against President Donald Trump – costs that are likely to climb to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Tagged with: crowdfunding litigation costs Stormy Daniels

GoFundMe account set up to help Baltimore students stay warm

January 8, 2018 Leave a comment

A seagull takes flight from a bank of plowed snow in January 2016 along the inner harbor promenade. (The Daily Record/Maximilian Franz)

A GoFundMe account has been set up to help students stay warm in Baltimore schools.

Tagged with: Baltimore Baltimore City Public Schools crowdfunding

Equity crowdfunding boom has been more like a whimper

September 12, 2016 Leave a comment

From Left, Philip Dimuro and Dave Phelan, co-founders of Loople, a mobile app that lists all the current food in drink specials in your area. Photo of them together at their incubator space in the ETC in Baltimore. (The Daily Record/Maximilian Franz).

When new rules from the Securities and Exchange Commission created investment opportunities for average folks through equity crowdfunding, it seemed like a golden opportunity. Here, after all, was a way for startups looking to raise money to hook up with average investors ...

Tagged with: crowdfunding Loople Wefunder

Joel Morse: Do you want to be an angel investor?

July 28, 2016 Leave a comment

The new crowdfunding rules that the Securities and Exchange Commission has enacted will introduce a new investment framework for private investors of modest means. By way of background, in 2012 the SEC passed a law (called the JOBS Act) ...

Tagged with: angel investing crowdfunding SEC

Nearly 250 strangers give a Baltimore teenager $30,000

June 27, 2016 Leave a comment

(AP) — Khalil Bridges was at his former high school on June 22, writing thank-you notes to strangers, when the phone rang. “I don’t know you, but I love you,” a man on the other end said. “You inspire me, ...

Tagged with: Baltimore crowdfunding

Crowdfunding campaign launched for film on German POW camp in Frederick

May 22, 2015 Leave a comment

Schneider and Mary talk during a scene in “The Tears of Valour,” a movie about a POW camp for Germans that operated in Frederick during World War II. (PRNewsFoto/Urbane Legends Entertainment)

Producers of a movie about a POW camp for Germans that operated in Frederick during World War II are launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the project. Urbane Legends Entertainment launched the campaign for its new film, “The ...

Tagged with: crowdfunding frederick