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. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Today you still need to be registered with the SEC as an “ accredited ” investor to legally buy any startup equity. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round.

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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. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

We generate fully-surveyed and verified Investor and Reservation leads, for both accredited and non-accredited investors. Even long-established platforms are realizing the limitations of their brands and messaging as they seek to broaden their investor base. What does the future of equity crowdfunding look like?

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

” and the second is “Are you an Accredited Investor by that country’s standards?” This will be changing next year, however, because of a new law called the JOBS Act of 2012 , which establishes a new, limited type of Crowdfunding for small companies and non-Accredited investors. Once the U.S.

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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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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The blog post you included does offer a solution and limiting non accredited investors to $1,000 rather than 10% of income will hopefully eliminate people betting the farm. My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. February 11, 2012 11:00 PM.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

Since the provisions of the JOBS Act relating to angel investments by non-accredited investors haven't been finalized yet, these platforms are currently only available to accredited investors, who already have the ability to make angel investments. However, there are many pieces of the FC model that are intriguing.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Title III of the JOBS Act amends Section 4 of the Securities Act by adding a new paragraph (6), and requires the SEC to promulgate related rules to create an exemption from registration that permits a private company to sell securities in small amounts to large numbers of investors that are not accredited over a 12-month period.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

They may or may not be accredited investors, and they don’t invest regularly or often. <$50K in aggregate. Updated (05/16/2011 at 11:05 AM) : Added a row to the table/cheat sheet to indicated whether or not the investor is typically an Accredited Investor (better explanation on Yokum’s blog ), or not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.)

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Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2012

This is because of federal and state securities laws which have been in place (in one form or another) since the 1930’s, including the following: A prohibition against advertising or “general solicitation” – which means that a company may not offer or sell securities unless there is a substantive, pre-existing relationship between the company (or a (..)

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