Have an MVP (minimal viable product). 

Having an MVP does a few things: 

1. You can engage in Triangle Financing and make your investment crowdfunding an easier journey. 

2. Having a product lets your potential investors know you're serious and further ahead than just having an idea. 

3. The hardest part of crowdfunding is attracting the crowd. When you have a product don't just attract the crowd to invest, invite them to buy your product. That is called generating revenue. Revenue is the best capital in the world. 

Crowdfunding is a tool for solving some of the world's biggest problems. It is frequently used as a tool for financing investment in solutions to climate change. More directly, it serves to fight social inequities, providing female entrepreneurs with fairer financing terms and access to capital. It has the potential to do the same for minorities.

Because I believe supporting entrepreneurship is vital to society, and frankly, humanity, too. Helping others actualize their potential, or even just follow their bliss, is a keen use of technology that has multiplicative, cascading benefits.

And I also saw that access to gary stage, potentially explosive equity investments for most people was prohibited unnaturally, unnecessarily, and mostly, unwisely. So, I recognized that with all things disruptive, yet also inevitable, I'd rather help fuel the rockets and get there sooner than later. So I volunteered in what became an 8-yr journey, so far. 

Reg.CF is by far one of the best ways to get your deal in front of the largest audience of potential investors... plus it's a great gateway to doing a Reg.A+ offering as well! In fact, I think equity crowdfunding is so great, I host and produce an entire podcast relating to it! Thanks for your question.

The real question is: 

What makes you think that Securitized Token Offerings (STOs) aren't regulated crowdfunding? 

Crowdfunding consist of 3 elements: 

1. A human looking for money

2. Goes on the internet and ask strangers for money 

3. In exchange for their good, product, service or use/equity/obligation for using their good, product or service. 

If you do "unregulated" crowdfunding, good luck. Thats called an "ICO". Where as an "STO" doesn't actually exist and is just a fancy marketing term for debt/equity crowdfunding. How do STOs not exist? There is no such thing as a "token offering". It was a term made up by a lawyer or a marketer to attempt to add sexiness or gray area to existing JOBS Act regulations. Its like saying "I'm going to securitize a gummy bear offering." What is a "gummy bear offering"? Its the same thing as a token offering. Its a made up financial instrument that ultimately is crowdfunding. Whether its donation, debt, equity or royalty when you use the internet to solicit support, from strangers, thats crowdfunding. 

Here are 2 videos that provide additional context. 

https://youtu.be/oGAXW8GPcj0 

https://youtu.be/lbphClg6bPI 

Love the question and keep them coming! 

Great question. I'll substitute the word "crowdfunding" under the meaning given by the SEC in Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) for the word "fundraising" in your question as I suspect that is the import of your question.

Facebook would be radically different if it had been financed in its earliest days by hundreds of college students instead of by venture capitalists. It would have led to a more user-focused rather than advertiser-focused platform because the users would be owners.

I'd like to think we'd have all the best parts of Facebook without the worst parts.