We welcome inquiries from journalists and media producers. We can offer you timely interviews about Direct Public Offerings (DPOs), crowdfunding, capital markets, and community capital formation.

• An Interview on Community Capital with Brian Beckon on Method to the Madness (KALX 90.7 FM)
• Community Wind Investment Firm, Windshare, Adds to its Advisory Board (Windpower Engineering & Development)
• [Podcast] Cutting Edge Capital – Small Biz Stories, Episode 13 (Constant Contact)
• Tear down Wall Street? Actually, change is happening (slowly) (Christian Science Monitor)
• Does your portfolio align with your values? (Christian Science Monitor)
• This Company Asked Its Employees for Cash and Everybody Won (Entrepreneur)
• Direct Public Offerings Let Businesses Turn Customers Into Investors (KQED)

• Food Commons Fresno: Matchmaker of Produce, People (The Business Journal)
• Impact Investing Insights E-book (NextBillion)
• Forget Venture Capitalists—This Scrappy Composting Co-Op Found Another Way to Get Startup Money (Yes! Magazine)
• Impact Investing Panel Talks Crowdfunding (Triangle Business Journal)
• Good Local Money (East Bay Express)
• Growth Financing for Social Enterprises: 5 Options and How to Make Them Work for You (TriplePundit)
• Richmond Fed Participates in Emerging Issues Forum (Richmond Federal Reserve)
• How Small, Local Businesses Can Reach New Investors and Keep Dollars in Communities (Co.Exist)
• Worker-owned Firm Turns Trash to Cash (Bay State Banner)
• $340,000 Raised by Composting and Recycling Worker Cooperative in Massachusetts (Press Release)
• Cutting Edge Capital Backs Worker Co-ops, Others Striving to Build New Economy (Rural Cooperatives Magazine)
• Old-School Crowdfunding: Meet the Direct Public Offering (Locavesting)
• San Francisco’s Mission Cheese Offering Public Investment Opportunity (ABC7 San Francisco Bay Area)
• The World’s Most Sustainable Water Source To Raise $10 Million In California Direct Public Offering (Press Release)
• More than $100,000 Raised for Wool Mill in Ukiah (Ukiah Daily Journal)
• Cutting Edge Capital Applauds Today’s SEC Release Regarding Direct Public Offerings (Press Release)
• A Guide to Direct Public Offerings: Crowdfunding Without Title III (Business News Daily)

• 100 of the Most Influential Thought Leaders in Crowdfunding Today (Our Crowd)
• For Business Loan Fund, Ukiah Nonprofit Eyes Public Offering (North Bay Business Journal)
• Impact Investing at a Crossroads (NextBillion)
• DPOs Raise Equity to Qualify for Loans (The FundWell)
• Calvert Foundation Lists Community Investment Note on CuttingEdgeX (Press Release)
• The Women of Crowdfunding (Forbes)
• When Workers Become Owners: Real Pickles Charts an Unconventional Course (The Valley Advocate)
• Direct Public Offerings for Healthy Communities (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
• The Conscious Capitalist: How To Chase Assistance and Investors for Social-Impact Businesses (Entrepreneur)
• Berkshire Bank Temporarily Withdraws from BerkShares Program (The Berkshire Eagle)
• The Latest Trends in Sustainable Communities (Solutions Journal)
• How To Go Public Without A Stock Exchange (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
• Direct Public Offerings: Legal Investment Crowdfunding – Without the Wait (Good Food Web)
• Entrepreneurs Turn to a New Source of Funds: Their Neighbors (Wall Street Journal)
• Need Capital for Your Business? Consider a Direct Public Offering (SustainableBusiness.com)
• Cutting Edge Capital Offers CA Residents Investment Crowdfunding (Crowdfund Insider)
• Cutting Edge Capital Taps Investment Crowdfunding Through Enhanced Online Investing Platform (Press Release)
• Local Finance in the New Economy: 7 Essential Ideas (Live Work Oakland)
• Investing in Local Business a New Growing Trend (Al Jazeera America)
• Cutting Edge Capital Honored as ‘Best for Communities’ for Creating the Most Community Impact (Press Release)
• The Best-Kept Secret in Impact Investing (NextBillion)
• Social Enterprises Raise Capital through Direct Public Offerings (Forbes)
• Eye on the Prize: Addressing a Food Desert in Oakland (Forbes)
• Investing in Sharing: No Hockey Stick, No Problem (Christie George on Medium.com)
• Why the World of Entrepreneurship is Awash in Funds (Inc.)
• Support Your Local Business by Investing In It (ABC7 – Los Angeles)
• Land, Co-ops, Compost: A Local Food Economy Emerges in Boston’s Poorest Neighborhoods (truthout)
• Owning Is the New Sharing (Shareable)

• Seeking Capital, Some Companies Turn To ‘Do-It-Yourself-I.P.O.’s’ (New York Times)
• Online Platforms Give the First Public Look at Private Equity (PBS)
• The JOBS Act Leaves Crowdfunding Investors Unprotected—The SEC is Working with a Flawed Law (Reuters)
• Entrepreneurship Infrastructure Rises in Oakland (San Francisco Business Times)
• Direct Public Offerings Tap Investors Without Risk of JOBS Act’s Crowdfunding Exemption Rules (Los Angeles Business Journal)
• Crowdfunding Rules Create Too Much Red Tape for Some (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Crowdfunding Concerns (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
• SEC Weighs New Investment Option for “Regular Folks” (Social Venture Network)
• Your Money: Twitter Prepares To Go Public Without Full Financial Disclosure (Philly.com)
• JOBS Act Leaves Crowdfunding Investors Unprotected (AllAboutAlpha.com)
• Crowdfunding—Killed in its Crib? Or is There a Better Idea? (Central Valley Business Times)
• The JOBS Act Leaves Crowdfunding Investors Unprotected—The SEC is Working with a Flawed Law (Venture Beat)
• What Happened to the JOBS Act? Leaves Crowdfunding Investors Unprotected (SustainableBusiness.com)
• How To Finance Your Start-Up on Shareable Terms (Shareable.net)
• JOBS Act Leaves Crowdfunding Investors Unprotected (Architectural Business)
• In West Oakland, a Market for the People, by the People, Looking for Investors (Inside Bay Area)
• CuttingEdgeX Launches Platform to Help Small Businesses Raise Capital (PC World)
• Start Me Up: Cutting Edge Capital Helps Ordinary People Invest in Startups (The Hub)
• Inside the Incubator Q&A: Direct Investing for the 100 Percent (Capital Institute)
• Obamacare, Crowdfunding, And The Coming Entrepreneurship Boom (InvestorIdeas.com)
• Top Power Women in US Crowdfunding (CEO World Magazine)
• Reclaiming Investment for Main Street (Press Release)
• Post-recession, Making Main Street Investing Possible (Press Release)

• Alternative Capital Financing for the 99% (Of Business) (World Federation of Exchanges)
• Hyper-local Markets Provide Big Economic Boost (SF Gate)
• Taking Stock of the Food Economy (Crain’s)
• The Economist at the Forefront of the Farm-To-Table Movement (Entrepreneur)
• Raising Seed Capital From the Rest of Us (California Business Law Practitioner)
• Raising Capital for Cooperatives P. I (Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives)
• Raising Capital for Cooperatives P. II (Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives)
• Accelerating Community Capital Workshop: The Legal Landscape (BALLE)

• Grassroots Financing is Underwriting a New Crop of Neighborhood Businesses (Grist)
• Reform of the US Securities Laws is Necessary for Impact Investing to Reach Full Potential (TriplePundit)

• Cutting Edge Capital Raising for Small Business (panel discussion at Cutting Edge Capital’s founding)