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4 startups facilitating a borderless world

The Startup Magazine

Danish-based startup Inpay was formed after founder Jacob Tackmann Thomsen realized money donated to help orphaned children in Myanmar after 2008’s Cyclone Nargis would lose 5% to fees and take days to arrive. The company allows users to send money internationally using the real exchange rate involved.

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Today For The First Time in 80 Years, You Can Ask Total Strangers to Invest in Your Business

Up and Running

The Securities and Exchange Commission is lifting an 80-year-ban on the practice , freeing up privately-owned businesses across the country to openly seek investment funding. As of September 23, 2013, American businesses can advertise that they are raising money, and it won’t be considered a crime.

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More Cash for Entrepreneurs, Crowdfunding, and Indiegogo

David Teten

Currently, entrepreneurs are prohibited from doing so under the Securities Act of 1933, which requires companies who wish to sell securities to register and provide extensive information about strategy, future plans, ownership, management, etc. They hired the Sustainable Economies Law Center to write to the U.S.

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Crowd Funding – A Critique for Entrepreneurs and Investors

Gust

But, in the US, only wealthy accredited investors * have been allowed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to invest in entrepreneurs and their startup companies (without extensive disclosure of the business plan and risks inherent to such new ventures).

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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

Securities and Exchange Commission, and Partner at Sand Hill Econometrics , observed, “Among the scientists who have studied the performance of venture capital and buyouts, there is no consensus that there is persistence in performance by fund. I’m obliged to say that sentiment is not universal. First, it isn’t very precise.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. In the U.S. cents or 6.25 cents or 6.25

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More on Financial Regulation, Its Unintended Consequences, and the Geithner Plan

Pascal's View

  On November 28 th , 2008 I posted a warning on this specific issue: A Case. Advisors, they actually passed inspections by the Securities Exchange. Commission. from over a decade of misguided federal securities regulations is also at the. The media is full of negative reactions related to. normal">. "Times