Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2023

Every reputable investment firm is registered with FINRA and files regular reports with the SEC. Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Has the firm ever been disciplined by the SEC or a state regulator? Any mention of “offshore.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2011

Every reputable investment firm is registered with FINRA and files regular reports with the SEC. Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Have you or your firm ever been disciplined by the SEC or a state regulator? Any mention of “offshore.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2010

Every reputable investment firms has to file regular reports with the SEC. Watch out if someone has a complex plan involving offshore bank financing or gemstones or oil leases in Iran to make you rich. Have you or your firm ever been disciplined by the SEC or a state regulator? Any mention of “offshore”. By commission?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Our “hot deal of the week&# turned out to be more of the “hot theme of the week.&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. This is interesting because just 2 years ago many of these businesses were shut down by the SEC. Other deals. Enter Xobni.

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

506(b) vs 506(c): These refer to two of the SEC rules that regulate “crowdfunding” financing. Your networking should have brought you into contact with many people who are rooting for you – this is a way they can help you without investing money. If you don’t have these, ask for them.

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

House of Representatives passed a crowdfunding bill that will allow startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites and social networking sites. As the term suggests, crowdfunding is funding from a crowd of people — that is, many people provide small amounts of money to finance something. What is Crowdfunding?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Equity Crowdfunding: Your Solution for Small Business Financing? But in order to travel, add personnel, and execute on expansion plans in the coming year, many small businesses will need financing… which is where things get tricky. Crowdfunding for Small Business: Marketing and Financing. The first is marketing.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

To the SEC, it means that you are an accredited investor and To the man (or woman) on the street, a minimum qualification would seem to be an interest and ability to invest in early stage ventures. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

House of Representatives overwhelming passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act , a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 28, 2010

And the SEC is closing the window on these unregistered broker-dealers. The reality is, a tremendous amount of unregistered “brokers” (as defined by the SEC) are out there raising capital for companies. Just because a law is not enforced does not mean the transaction is ok under the law.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Given that most startups and small businesses have neither of these, for them attaining traditional bank financing has such a low probability of success that it is rarely even worth the time to pursue. So, where should the creative and committed small business owner go for funding when the banks say no?

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

506(b) vs 506(c): These refer to two of the SEC rules that regulate “crowdfunding” financing. Your networking should have brought you into contact with many people who are rooting for you – this is a way they can help you without investing money. If you don’t have these, ask for them.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Seth makes extensive use of social networking tools, and web videos to maximize the impact of his training. Seth’s role there was to perform audits; prepare tax returns for Corporations, S-Corps, LLC’s, Partnerships; and bankruptcy compilation work for SEC reporting and litigation. Nerd Enterprises, Inc. Nerd Enterprises, Inc.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Seeking initial investment for your social enterprise places you in the “seed stage” of financing your company. The crowdfunding strategy, however, has also caught the attention of the SEC and has been regulated by the 2012 JOBS Act. The SEC is currently working to draft rules allowing equity-based crowdfunding.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 17, 2011

And the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has some serious restrictions on selling this stock. If you followed the detail presented in the The Social Network movie, Eduardo Saverin has five percent ownership, so he’s okay. Until then, the holders live with a lot of legal restrictions. And those twins?

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

In September of this year, the SEC voted to overturn the ban on “general solicitation” that made it illegal for companies to publicly advertise that they are raising capital. How Crowdfunding is Affecting Angel Group Investment. An easing on some of the U.S. Want To Learn More? Download our free Raising Capital from Angel Investors eBook.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

These firms can provide various services, including financing and business advice. They may also provide a mentorship network. The management company must file certain reports with the SEC and some states. One of the most common ways of investing in a startup is by leveraging the expertise of a venture capital firm.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

If your business needs financing, consider equity crowdfunding; its distinctive traits will lure investors desiring the rewards of investment returns and investor protection, in addition to the goodwill generated by their support. The SEC’s proposed equity crowdfunding rules regulate, in part: Your business (the securities issuer).

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Professor VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

FC is the latest Kickstarter type site to launch to give entrepreneurs the opportunity to raise financing from a large number of individuals. And the company has only one investor on the cap table but can (if they wish) take advantage of a larger group network. I'm curious as to how the SEC will view FC. Very cool!

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We networked to him through three sources – one of my [Harvard Business School] professors who knew him well, a Silicon Valley CEO friend of Michael’s who knew him, and a Fortune 500 CEO with whom Michael was friendly. This approach will keep the financing relatively simple and inexpensive and will defer the company’s valuation (i.e.,

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Professor VC

MARCH 11, 2013

SocialParent is a social network for those who have moved beyond the Bang with Friends stage, have settled down, had a family and are looking for a social network that mirrors their real life social network. There was a ton of energy, great networking and the jam sessions were epic!

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

While the crowdfunding portion of the bill still needs to go through SEC rule-making, the die is clearly cast that a whole new social networking – based world of start-up and small business investing and financing is coming fast upon us. This week, the President is expected to pass H.R.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Mailing lists/groups. Google Groups. Forms/Surveys. Google Forms. Survey Monkey. Personal storage. Website/Blogging. Facebook Fan Pages. Facebook Like.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

With declining span of attention, unless something appeals in first 20 secs, people move onto something diff (generally, because there are so many choices). You don't necessarily need a team of specialists in each field (product, management, marketing and finance). Jan 9, 2011 View All 0 Comments Cannot add comment at this time.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Allow untrusted network participants to trade If you started a business 200 years ago you could mostly only trade in your local economy and you relied about “traders” who could transport your products great distances to those who might like to buy them in foreign lands. That would be like Turkey’s voting to have Thanksgiving dinner.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Million in 1946 as a closed-end mutual fund ) which meant ARD was regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC.) Corporate Finance One of the ironies in Silicon Valley is that the two companies which gave birth to its entire semiconductor industry weren’t funded by venture capital. play in the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. Regarding social networking, Yahoo!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. And then the network can come to an agreed upon state that says, hey, this is a valid transaction. And so, all of a sudden, you have finance, and compliance, and bankers, and folks like that. I'm curious. What was your first reaction when you saw it?

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Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2012

House of Representatives voted 407-17 to pass the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook. What is Crowdfunding? May Startups Raise Funds via Crowdfunding? Economy?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. So eventually rationality has to occur. So my outlook for 2016?

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