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Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

They may or may not be accredited investors, and they don’t invest regularly or often. They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. At first blush, uVCs acting more like institutional venture capital funds may be considered a bad thing.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. -

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Is crowdfunding legal?

Startup Company Lawyer

In 2005, Kiva launched a micro-finance platform that allows people to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in developing areas. 10 percent, not to exceed $100,000, of annual income or net worth of an investor, if either the investor’s annual income or net worth is equal to or greater than $100,000.

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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

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. Venture News. Daniel Sisson.

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Democratization of Angel Investing

Professor VC

FC is the latest Kickstarter type site to launch to give entrepreneurs the opportunity to raise financing from a large number of individuals. Some of the current services act on the investment bank model and either facilitate transactions between investors and companies (i.e. I'm curious as to how the SEC will view FC.