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Andrew Connor and CrowdFund Montana

This week’s guest is Andrew Connor, Director of the Center for Community Ownership, an organization that provides legal, financial and strategic help to communities that want to start and save essential local businesses. Andrew also helped launch CrowdFund Montana, a web-based resource that connects Montana businesses and organizations with Montanans who want to make local investments.

In this conversation, we cover the purpose of investment crowdfunding, how its framework operates for both the entrepreneur and their backers, and the potential investment crowdfunding has to foster development by and for a community.

Transcript here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LcAgR2nRD9SYMAePd58hTOy8Vn-1Y4-0kIaH9_cdAOk/edit?usp=sharing

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