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My guest is Ruth Hedges! Ruth is a renowned expert in Crowdfunding and a pioneering figure in the legislation that led to the JOBS Act's Title III 4(a)(6), known as the crowdfunding bill. Her contributions earned her invitations to the White House's "Crowdfunding Champions of Change" event and Capitol Hill, where she showcased her innovative technology. Ruth co-founded RiseUpCrowdfunding.com in collaboration with The Coca-Cola Company, aiming to empower diverse entrepreneurs who have limited access to capital. Her advocacy for crowdfunding has garnered significant media attention, including features in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Inc Magazine, and more. Ruth's dedication extends beyond crowdfunding, as she's been recognized for her philanthropic work, earning her numerous accolades, including the 'Crowdfunding Innovator' title from the Las Vegas Women In Technology Awards. Social and Website: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruthehedges/ Website: https://riseupcrowdfunding.com/ For more episodes and information, visit us at https://www.digitalnicheagency.com/media Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4zS5V79... Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=524781... Follow Digital Niche Agency on Socials for Up To Date Marketing Expertise and Insights Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digitalniche... Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/digi... Instagram: DNA - Digital Niche Agency @digitalnicheagency • Instagram photos and videos. Twitter: https://twitter.com/DNAgency_CA YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDlz…

Devin: What do you see as your superpower?Ruth: When I was growing up, my father, who was also an entrepreneur, basically imparted this sense of self-determination, you can just state what you want to be—put what you want to be out in the world, and then you can become it.This is huge. I mean, this is big. I'm talking $250 billion. Coca-Cola Company has recently launched a FINRA-regulated crowdfunding business. I'll wait a moment while you let that sink in.One of America's most valuable brands, one of its most prominent companies, and one of its most popular product owners has decided to enter the crowdfunding fray.Led by crowdfunding leader Ruth Hedges, who has been working in the industry for over a decade, is leading the new enterprise called Rise Up Crowdfunding.Ruth says, “I've been trying to get corporate America to wake up to the value of this.” Well, it looks like she's done it. She describes the business as “a funding portal that's focused on women and minorities and veterans—the LGBTQ community—who have been horrendously left out of every other form of capital, most egregiously venture capital.”Coca-Cola has a bit of self-interest at work here. With ambitious goals for hiring diverse subcontractors, the behemoth company is struggling to find companies with women, Black, Hispanic or LGBTQ owners capable of handling its volume.Ruth explains, “We're trying to help those companies that have the skills and the infrastructure but need to scale all of that to meet the demand of the contract and help them raise up to $5 million on Rise Up Crowdfunding.”Ruth and Coca-Cola are taking this to the next level:We're doing something else, and that is something I wish the venture capital world had done 50 years ago. We are requiring the entrepreneurs who qualify to be on our funding portal to pledge for equal pay, pledge for sustainability policy, to care about the planet—to have a diverse board. All the things that we've been fighting for, we are now making that a requirement, so they will not be able to get on the funding portal if they're not committed to these things.She adds, “If venture capital groups and angel groups had required living wage of all the companies they funded over the last four or five decades, Bernie Sanders would be out of business.”Ruth got started with investment crowdfunding before there was such a thing. After reading a blog post by Sherwood Neiss in 2008, she found his phone number and called him to say, “I think you're my brother from another mother.”Recognizing they needed a literal act of Congress to allow for investment crowdfunding, they went to work to do just that. “We started calling everybody we knew, going to Washington DC and walking the halls. I brought Senator [Harry] Reid into the mix and convinced him of the validity of this.”On April 15, 2012, President Barack Obama signed the JOBS Act into law, giving birth to the industry with what the Securities and Exchange Commission ultimately called Regulation Crowdfunding.Not one to set small goals, Ruth has set her sights on achieving scale quickly. She's designed an effort to get “a million people to sign a pledge that says, ‘I pledge to put $100 into some offering in 2023.'” With that promise, $100 million of capital will be available to companies using Rise Up Crowdfunding.That sounds ambitious, if not impossible, until you consider the backing of Coca-Cola. With a veritable army of employees and connections to a huge cadre of vendors and commercial customers, reaching a million people begins to feel downright reasonable.Ruth has a message for venture capitalists, too. “Look, if you're going to keep rejecting all of these diverse entrepreneurs, these women entrepreneurs, send them our way.” She plans to deliver that message to the venture community until it sticks.Ruth has built her success on the confidence she learned from her father. She believes she can do anything she puts her mind to do. That's a superpower!How to Develop Confidence As a SuperpowerHer confidence comes from taking her father's confidence in her to heart and building on it with unshakable determination. “When I tell [people] something, I will follow through 1,000 percent,” she says. “Failure is not an option. I will walk through fire to make something happen.”She shared a story from early in her career to illustrate:There was a food truck, or they used to call them, roach coaches. This roach coach drove up to a private school in Bel Air, California, where a friend of mine's mother was a teacher. The bell would ring, and the kids would go out, and they'd order their food from the truck. And that was the entire food program. Some rich kid got food poisoning. The next day, the phones are ringing off the hook. And lawsuits—they were threatening lawsuits. “If you don't get another substitution for this roach coach, we are taking our kid out of your school.” So, my phone rang, and it was like, “Hey, do you want to start a catering business at this private school in Bel Air?”I called my parents. I didn't have a pot to piss in. They gave me $1,000. I literally started catering business with $1,000, a cutting board, a few bowls and some other stuff. And 18 years later, I had made $15 Million. I never borrowed a dollar from anybody. I did it all. I didn't use any line of credit. I literally launched a business. I ended up with 12 employees and two locations. I eventually expanded into a law firm in downtown Los Angeles called Latham and Watkins and did their food service for their executive dining room. I did thousands of weddings and bar mitzvahs and parties and all kinds of things over those years.The key to developing this powerful self-confidence is “self-discipline,” Ruth says. “I think that that commitment to being disciplined in their journey of whatever it is they want to do is is is definitely going to be a requirement and something they would have to commit to.”You can make self-confidence a superpower that enables you to do more good in the world by following Ruth's example of self-discipline and commitment.This book, The International Bank of Bob, is a decade old but as relevant as the day it was written. If you haven't discovered this one, you'll likely enjoy it. Note that Kiva, the subject of the book, was an early player in investment crowdfunding. Because the platform only promises the return of capital and not a return on it, it isn't regulated like other investment crowdfunding portals. Get full access to Superpowers for Good at devinthorpe.substack.com/subscribe

On April 5, 2012, President Obama signed the JOBS Act that contained new laws associated with Crowdfunding under Title III. Ruth Hedges was a driving force behind the enactment of this law which gave small businesses access to capital that had never been available before. Listen to how Ruth built multi-million dollar businesses in both the culinary and technology industries, what it was like to create new legislation, and the types of crowdfunding opportunities that are available. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Equity Crowdfunding is still relatively young as an industry, but is growing leaps and bounds.   Ruth Hedges is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on crowdfunding and honored to be one of the original pioneers of the legislation that was ultimately signed into law as Title lll 4(a)(6) - the crowdfunding bill in the JOBS Act on April 5, 2012.  Ruth developed CrowdfundingCRM, a robust tool for entrepreneurs launching and managing an equity crowdfunding campaign - the first of its kind built for crowdfunding with robust analytical and marketing tools and much more. Ruth is also the founder and CEO of Crowdfundingroadmap Inc which operates the Flagship Global Crowdfunding Convention the world’s first annual crowdfunding convention that she created 6 years ago http://thegccworld.com.  It is scheduled for Oct 23 & 24 in Las Vegas and is sponsored by Microsoft.   With the release of her book, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, Karen Rands has become the evangelist for Compassionate Capitalism and seeks to bring new investors into the market that understand the risks and rewards of investing in 'pre-cap' entrepreneur opportunities.  Crowdfunding represents a new world of economic democratization of the capital markets and a unique opportunity for both women entrepreneurs and investors to gain ground in grabbing more of the wealth creation pie.  Women entrepreneurs and investors are empowered like never before to start and grow businesses and invest in unique opportunities because of crowdfunding. Karen and Ruth discuss the history and growth of Crowdfunding, the upcoming convention, and how women entrepreneurs and women investors should make plans to participate in this historic event.   

Equity Crowdfunding is still relatively young as an industry, but is growing leaps and bounds.   Ruth Hedges is recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on crowdfunding and honored to be one of the original pioneers of the legislation that was ultimately signed into law as Title lll 4(a)(6) - the crowdfunding bill in the JOBS Act on April 5, 2012.  Ruth developed CrowdfundingCRM, a robust tool for entrepreneurs launching and managing an equity crowdfunding campaign - the first of its kind built for crowdfunding with robust analytical and marketing tools and much more. Ruth is also the founder and CEO of Crowdfundingroadmap Inc which operates the Flagship Global Crowdfunding Convention the world’s first annual crowdfunding convention that she created 6 years ago http://thegccworld.com.  It is scheduled for Oct 23 & 24 in Las Vegas and is sponsored by Microsoft.   With the release of her book, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, Karen Rands has become the evangelist for Compassionate Capitalism and seeks to bring new investors into the market that understand the risks and rewards of investing in 'pre-cap' entrepreneur opportunities.  Crowdfunding represents a new world of economic democratization of the capital markets and a unique opportunity for both women entrepreneurs and investors to gain ground in grabbing more of the wealth creation pie.  Women entrepreneurs and investors are empowered like never before to start and grow businesses and invest in unique opportunities because of crowdfunding. Karen and Ruth discuss the history and growth of Crowdfunding, the upcoming convention, and how women entrepreneurs and women investors should make plans to participate in this historic event.   

We spoke with Ruth Hedges, the woman behind the Global Crowdfunding Conference, to get her take on all things crowdfunding. Tune in to learn more about the history of crowdfunding, how crowdfunding has changed the world, why you should attend the conference and much more! Key Takeaways The history of equity crowdfunding and how the recent recession played a role in making it legal Who to expect to hear speak at the Global Crowdfunding Convention What types of Kickstarter secrets you’ll pick up at the Global Crowdfunding Convention How crowdfunding has changed over the years BONUS: Use coupon code RH25 to save 25% off tickets to the 5th annual Global Crowdfunding Convention Links thegccworld.com crowdfundingcrm.com Connect with Ruth Hedges Global Crowdfunding Conference on Facebook @thegccworld on Twitter Sponsors Art of the Kickstart is honored to be sponsored by The Gadget Flow, a product discovery platform that helps you discover, save, and buy awesome products. The Gadget Flow is the ultimate buyer's guide for cool luxury gadgets and creative gifts. Click here to learn more and list your product - use coupon code ATOKK16 for 25% off!

Entrepreneurs have been waiting for the ban on funding solicitation to be lifted so that equity-based crowdfunding can begin. Crowdfunding prime mover Ruth Hedges shares the next big thing in US equity funding.

Crowdfunding is one of the most exciting ways to raise money for nearly anything, including real estate.  And it just got easier! In this episode, The Guys interview Ruth Hedges, who is on the forefront of the crowfunding movement. Listen in and find out how the new rules of crowdfunding are making it easier for money and deals to get together. The Real Estate Guys™ radio show provides real estate investing news, education, training, perspectives and resources to help real estate investors succeed.  Learn more and subscribe to the free newsletter at www.realestateguysradio.com

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