Kickstarter is familiar to many entrepreneurs as a means of raising funds for a new project via crowdsourcing. However one thing it hasn’t been allowed to do yet in return for donations is give away slices of equity in the project that is raising funds.
This may soon change because the US Senate has passed the CROWDFUND Act which legalises crowd funding for small companies that are not publicly listed and the US House has passed the JOBS act which contains similar provisions.
