MicroVentures said today it has facilitated $16 million in equity crowdfunding investments, the type that regular people might be able to participate in after the JOBS Act gets implemented, but for now are limited to accredited investors. That space keeps growing; FundersClub claims $5 million invested to date, AngelList $7.8 million and CircleUp $10 million.

Not too long ago, I found myself standing in a candlelit, subterranean private dining room at a San Francisco restaurant. It's tucked into the still-gritty but speedily gentrifying, mid-Market district that’s also home to Twitter, Zendesk, Yammer, and One Kings Lane. The occasion was a media dinner for the launch of the newly personalized, 3.0 version of social shopping startup ...

Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList, Epinions and Vast, gets asked to join dozens of startup boards each year. He declines each request, even though doing so makes him feel bad. At our PandoMonthly in December, he said he wished his “mediocre superpower” was the ability to say no without guilt. With its crowdfunding platform, AngelList is in the position of...    

When should an entrepreneur raise money, who should they raise from….and, well, should they even raise? These were some of the questions discussed on a morning panel at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013, which included participation from Mike Abbott of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Aaref Hilaly of Sequoia Capital, AngelList’s Naval Ravikant, and Box Group’s David Tisch. Pitching A Partner Vs. ...

Dosi.io is a new Chrome extension that builds a better dossier at the top of LinkedIn profiles where it helps you determine who’s worth your time. Once installed, LinkedIn stalking gets a lot more interesting, as Dosi.io displays more information about the person in question by pulling in additional data from CrunchBase, GitHub and AngelList. It also displays a score ...