By @RoccoTarasi
In the last month the SEC has said that it will consider changes to certain capital markets regulations, including:
1. Raising the 500 shareholder threshold that triggers a public disclosure of financial results (and usually results in a public stock offering);
2. Adjusting the ban on general solicitations that prohibit or restrict publicizing share offerings; and
3. Allowing some form of crowdsourcing to raise smaller amounts of capital from a larger group of investors.  (via Mashable and VentureBeat)
Changing these and other rules are long, long overdue.  Our capital markets operate under some …

Until recently, if you asked me “what is the most important business book you’ve read in the last decade”, I would have instantly answered The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton Christensen.  Almost daily you see this book played out in real life – upstarts that are innovating , challenging, disrupting and even destroying industries and established companies.
But ask me that question now, and I have the more difficult choice between The Innovator’s Dilemma and Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe.   It …