Mar 12 -

wefunder: But how big could this really be? Cortese had a nice way of framing it: Americans have about $30 trillion dollars in long-term savings and investments. If they diverted just 1 percent of that money into investing in friends and neighbors’ businesses, that would be a sum that is about 10 times larger than all of the venture capital invested in the United States last year. Yup. Wowwy big. Counting on it for the new structure. (Source: wefunder, via zapnap)