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    This Entrepreneur Is Proving That a Zero-Interest Loan Platform Can Work

    Check out what's taking crowdfunding to a new level.
    by Michelle Goodman Jun 01, 2015 3 minutes
    Square deals: Community Sourced Capital’s Rachel Maxwell.

    Rachel Maxwell’s path to financing entrepreneurs wasn’t an obvious one. Before receiving her MBA in 2012, she worked in international climate policy while running an analytics and market research firm with her husband. But her data-crunching background and interest in sustainable energy soon led her to pursue sustainable business financing solutions for local communities.

    “What I figured out was that we really needed a distributed economic system, much like we needed a distributed energy grid,”

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