Europe has had a structure in place for awhile and these companies are accepting smaller dollar amounts. Still, raises tend to be a couple hundred thousand doll

Europe has had a structure in place for awhile and these companies are accepting smaller dollar amounts. Still, raises tend to be a couple hundred thousand dollars when they are successful, and it's not going to be a common avenue for a company to raise large amounts of money. If you're doing something esoteric but popular you can go to Indiegogo/Kickstarter and resell without dilution and without SEC oversight. If the SEC provides a way to pool together smaller investments in a fun structure they would have be able to invest in opportunities like Uber. Probably the safest path (albeit venture investing is very very risky) is when investors get to invest alongside professional VCs because the company will have been better diligences, better capitalized, and there will be management oversight.