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Crowd funding should use the late great James Ling as its poster boy.

Let me tell you about this great but little known American entrepreneur. His name comes to mind whenever someone mentions crowd funding.

I first discovered James Ling (1922 – 2004) at about the age of ten when I came across an article on the conglomerates of the 1950s and ’60s. Ling was the greatest of all the conglomerate building tycoons. In ten short years he had built the 14th largest company in the United States from scratch with his amazing wheeling & dealing talents.