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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

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Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. The Securities Act of 1933 requires that any type of securities offered to the public be registered with the SEC, involving a major undertaking to prepare and file a registration statement on Form S-1 – known to many as an IPO prospectus.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

It was 2003 or right about then, and I was walking across the Green Street Mall in Brisbane, thinking that I was no longer interested in Magic the Gathering as a card game. But for all this to happen, a really key point is to have a really good prospectus. A prospectus is what gets the initial interest from people.