The Crowdfund Texas conference will provide a detailed history of what led to the creation and development of a critical piece of new legislation called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, which was signed into law by President Obama on April 5, 2012. As the name implies, the bipartisan political movement will provide entrepreneurs, startups, and existing businesses with a monumental new funding mechanism that will make it a great deal easier to access a larger pool of potential financial investors by loosening the regulations for private investment via online crowdfunding portals.