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4 Rules for Successful Crowdfunding Learn how you can launch your crowdfunding campaign with these easy tips and tricks.

By Mark J. Kohler

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In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Mark J. Kohler -- author of best-selling title The Tax and Legal Playbook -- goes over successful crowdfunding strategies.

There are four rules that you must comply with as a business owner in order to crowdfund. Working with an SEC-approved portal, collecting the right formation and disclosure documents, supplying detailed expansions of the disclosure documents and ongoing compliance are the necessary steps to successful crowdfunding, Kohler says.

Diving into each of these areas, Kohler goes over the specific documents and help that you'll need in order to comply. He also explains the types of investors who can donate to a fund, which he separates into two categories.

Click play to learn how you can start your own crowdfunding campaign.

Watch more informative videos from Mark J. Kohler on his YouTube channel.

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Mark J. Kohler

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Author, Attorney, and CPA

Mark J. Kohler, a certified public accountant in Irvine, Calif., is a partner in the accounting firm Kohler & Eyre, and the law firm Kyler, Kohler, Ostermiller, & Sorensen LLP, specializing in business, estate and tax. He is the author of The Tax & Legal Playbook and What Your CPA Isn't Telling You from Entrepreneur Press.

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