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Crowd funding - A panacea for startups in India?
BY Prashant Kataria
The need of the hour is for the Indian government and regulators to carve out specific exemptions for crowd funding with effective checks and balances.
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...
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