# Prof. Anindya Ghose on the expansion of crowdfunding due to the JOBS Act

1 Faculty News September 24, 2013 ![TIME logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025660.jpg?itok=PFxttUnQ)>

Excerpt from [TIME](http://business.time.com/2013/09/24/the-crowdfunding-economy-is-about-to-pop/) -- "As crowdfunding expands, some worry that deregulation of startup investing will lead to inexperienced investors being duped into bad deals. 'That’s the flip side of opening this up to the rest of the world,' says [Anindya Ghose](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/anindya-ghose), a professor of information, operation and management sciences at New York University who also studies crowdfunding. 'You might end up hurting a lot of people who don’t need to be hurt.'”
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