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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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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

For example, if there were no S&P 500 ETFs or index mutual funds an investor could easily buy a “synthetic” equivalent by buying shares of all the S&P 500 stocks in proportion to each company’s weighting in the index.

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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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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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Democratization of Angel Investing

Professor VC

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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Is crowdfunding legal?

Startup Company Lawyer

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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