Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Today you still need to be registered with the SEC as an “ accredited ” investor to legally buy any startup equity. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Public companies with stock usually have industry analysts and SEC filings to give investors a quick view of the company stock value.

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Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Today most startup investors still register with the SEC as “ accredited ” investors before they buy any startup equity in the U.S. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Finally, it’s an opportunity to “give back” what you have learned in your own career for the next generation.

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Liquidity Event SEC Accredited Investor Angel Investor 184

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

A few years ago this was sort of a novelty… not that many startups were going public and not that many bloggers or mainstream journalists took the time or had familiarity with combing these SEC filings. Why are media businesses so valuable?

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IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 4, 2012

The SEC has yet to weigh in on regulation. A successful platform will aggregate an enormous amount of data. “Some will give you reports on the company and try to help you make more informed decisions, and others will cater to microinvestments. This will only continue to accelerate. We’re at the tipping point here.

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SEC Equity Aggregator Forecast 143

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

It allows small businesses to raise $1 million, from a limit of 10% of income or $10,000 from individual investors, without registering their companies with the SEC. The Entrepreneurs Access to Capital Act helps to redress this.

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Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

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Mobile IP SMS Networking 109

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Today you still need to be registered with the SEC as an “ accredited ” investor to legally buy any startup equity in the U.S. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Finally, it’s an opportunity to “give back” what you have learned in your own career for the next generation.

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Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

The Brown bill was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and a hearing was held by such Committee on December 1, 2011, with respect to several pieces of capital formation legislation , including crowdfunding.

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SEC Las Vegas Accredited Investor Aggregator 91

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

Now you might see 60 secs and 5 PVV, 150 secs and 20 PVV, 98 secs and 5 PVV. at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools. What's the immediate adjacent contextual metric we can use? Why not use Page Views per Visit? Another indicator of activity during the Visit!

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Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 160

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Crowdfunding: Its Practical Effect May Be Unclear Until SEC Rulemaking is Complete. On April 23, 2012, the SEC published guidance reminding issuers that “any offers or sale of securities purporting to rely on the crowdfunding exemption would be unlawful under federal securities laws” until the SEC adopts new rules.

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SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Private Placement 58

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2016

10 sec rule. Amit Damani, cofounder of Vista Rooms , when not having quintessential talks on anything entrepreneurial, runs one of the fastest growing online aggregator for budget hotels in India. For entrepreneurs, there is a lot one could learn from Shark Tank episodes, and some of them ring true.

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Cofounder Startup SEC India 100

ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Use Turnstiles to collect information (best >300 sec video length and positioned in the middle 5-20%). 7 Basic Plots on Wikipedia ). In-Stream Action.

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PPC Analytics Video Non-Compete 48

Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

It’s worth noting that SaaS companies could probably do something interesting with all their data in aggregate. Some of these companies do share their aggregate findings, but never their raw data. In these cases, data is standardized to the SaaS’ requirements, but remains silo’ed within an organization. 3: Publicly available financial.

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Aggregator Startup Vertical SEC 60

Professor VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

I'm curious as to how the SEC will view FC. I'm guessing (if FC proves successful) that there will be unsophisticated unaccredited investors making investments and that the SEC may see this as a public offering of securities. Now, if you wish, you can make investments as small as $1,000 in several companies in a matter of minutes.

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Accredited Investor SEC Cap Table Angel Groups 42

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Additionally, a fundraising business offering and selling securities must comply with the regulations of the SEC, the federal government’s securities watchdog. The SEC’s proposed equity crowdfunding rules regulate, in part: Your business (the securities issuer). Certain SEC disciplinary, and cease-and-desist orders.

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Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall. SEC Visits Silicon Valley. Caveat emptor.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. That said, the NYSE and NASDAQ have SEC approval for “Direct Listing with a Primary Raise.” I am a member of this group, and I have developed these perspectives over many years of watching from the inside and being equally gullible.

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

aggregation. Advasense Technologies. Advent Venture Partners. advertising. Aerotel Medical Systems. AFCV Holdings. Afterdownload. Airbase Systems. Alan Patricof. Alex Osterwalder. Allon Bloch. Allot Communications. Alma Lasers. Alon Bloch. Satrup Factory. saul klein. save an alien. Scale Venture Partners. SCPVitalife. Screennovate.

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Software Review Technical Review Israel Startup 53

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And the SEC has come out and opined on several of them, which I won't get into. How did it come on your radar for the first time? BA : Yeah, well, the first time I saw the Bitcoin white paper, I saw it on Hacker News, which is a website that YCombinator runs.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2012

How Does the House Bill Address These Issues? Would Crowdfunding Be Beneficial to the U.S. Economy?

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SEC Security Accredited Investor Social Network 65