Archive - The Community Round Up

Community is Cool

Startups are hard. Investing in community, and inviting your community to invest, makes them easier. And more fun.

May 31 •

Five ways that Reg CF makes it easier to raise capital

If it's not already easy for you to raise capital, Regulation Crowdfunding won't make it easy. But it can make it easier.

May 19 •

March 2025

Everyone’s been running community rounds wrong for a decade

Before launching a community round, founders should gauge investor interest. There are a host of benefits from doing this.

Mar 25 •

How not to run a community round

If you're running a community round, here are 10 things to avoid doing.

Mar 18 •

February 2025

Some problems with the VC-industrial complex

Venture capital can be great. And it has some structural challenges.

Feb 10 •

The first ever startup to raise $1 million via Regulation Crowdfunding just went public in a $1 billion IPO.

Feb 3 •

December 2024

How I would run a community round

Enough abstract pontificating. Let's get specific! If I launched a Wefunder for my startup tomorrow, this is what I would do.

Dec 18, 2024 •

November 2024

The *Community* Round

Too many community rounds are not leveraging, or benefiting from, well... umm... community. We should change that.

Nov 19, 2024 •

August 2024

15 Epic Wefunder Community Rounds

From a YC startup curing cancer in dogs, to a brewery in Appalachia, to a soccer team in Oakland, here are some of the stories that Wefunder investors…

Aug 16, 2024 •

June 2024

Product-market fit is a spectrum

For founders (and investors), community rounds as a product have significantly improved over the last few years, and will continue to do so.

Jun 12, 2024 •

March 2024

The Restaurateur and her Friends

A fictional story about a restaurant owner called Maria who raised $250,000 from her Amigos, because a mean bank manager called Richard Miserly thought…

Mar 7, 2024 •

February 2024

Positive Signal

It's true that Community Rounds can be a "negative signal". And it's also true that they can be a "positive signal".

Feb 27, 2024 •

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