Remove Distribution Remove Finance Remove SEC
article thumbnail

How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Gust

Last month, the SEC announced it was taking action regarding Netflix’ (NFLX) securities compliance based on a Facebook status update posted by CEO Reed Hastings. To understand the SEC’s point of view , it’s necessary to review the principles underlying securities law in the United States.

SEC 158
article thumbnail

boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

Theres been lots of buzz for the need for a shared, distributed ledger but 2018 is the year we see production level use cases in the wild. This includes choosing best of breed by cloud vendor (Google for tensorflow, AWS for s3 and serverless, etc) and also distributing workloads over multiple clouds.

Cloud 78
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Story Of A Young Entrepreneur Building A Better World With A Nonprofit

Duct Tape Marketing

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. Hold on one sec. This is John Jan, and my guest today is Camden Francis.

article thumbnail

How to Form a Corporation

Up and Running

Because of its popularity, Delaware is also statistically a popular state for investors to finance businesses. Finally, they will outline the next two steps we’ll discuss below: board meetings and distribution of shares. . This sounds great, but doing business in another state means additional paperwork.

article thumbnail

boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C. There’s been lots of buzz for the need for a shared, distributed ledger but 2018 is the year we see production level use cases in the wild.

Cloud 60
article thumbnail

Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC

abovethecrowd.com

It has to do with the trends in how much effort the investment banks put into marketing and distribution, versus how much effort they put in historically. I would argue that any first year finance student or computer science student would naturally assume this is how traditional public offerings already work (they would be wrong).

IPO 118
article thumbnail

What type of entity should I form?

Startup Company Lawyer

Any company that raises venture financing will need to be a C corp in order to issue preferred stock. If founders want the benefit of flow through tax treatment with respect to losses prior to an outside financing, an S corp election may make sense as long as there are no entity or non-U.S. citizen/resident stockholders.

LLC 61