4 Crowd Investing Developments That Make Raising Startup Capital All About Merit

In my early career as a U.K. nuclear power engineer, I realized I would need to relocate to America to fulfill my need to succeed. There was no way I could raise capital for an ambitious startup in England. So I moved to the U.S. In the course of helping build my first successful startup in L.A. (Ashton-Tate), I realized that Silicon Valley was the epicenter of the tech world, so I made a conscious decision to move there when the opportunity arose. I joined my second startup (Symantec) in Cupertino and we raised VC from Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr. That move further propelled my career and...