Pre-seed+funding

Crowd funding - A panacea for startups in India?
@http://www.vccircle.com/news/finance/2012/07/26/crowd-funding-panacea-startups-india 7/36/2012

Crowd funding, also popularly known as crowd financing or equity crowd funding, could broadly be described as the raising or pooling of monies by a group of people, driven by common goals/objectives and trust to support an effort initiated by like-minded people or organisations. This article focuses on the possible regulatory issues that may affect crowd funding in India, wherein shares or securities are issued to investors by the fund raising company and the current regulatory position in the US.