UNC’s Brent Lane discusses N.C.’s long history of ‘crowdfunding’

November 7, 2016

Brent Lane, director of the Carolina Center for Competitive Economies at the University of North Carolina, discusses North Carolina’s history of “crowdfunding.” Lane offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio.

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