Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Previously, businesses seeking to raise capital were required to either pitch their plans exclusively to so-called accredited investors—individuals with at least $1 million in net worth (excluding their primary residence) or $200,000 in annual income—or offer a regulated security (such as stocks or corporate bonds). Legal News'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2012

Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share. Many startups delay incorporation until the first formal round of financing, which is too late. Trouble with the IRS over Founders stock value.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Equity Crowdfunding: Your Solution for Small Business Financing? But in order to travel, add personnel, and execute on expansion plans in the coming year, many small businesses will need financing… which is where things get tricky. Under current regulations, Equity crowdfunding opportunities are only available to Accredited Investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2011

Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share. Many startups delay incorporation until the first formal round of financing, which is too late. Trouble with the IRS over founders stock value.

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

House of Representatives passed a crowdfunding bill that will allow startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites and social networking sites. As the term suggests, crowdfunding is funding from a crowd of people — that is, many people provide small amounts of money to finance something. What is Crowdfunding?

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Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

Gust is the infrastructure that underlies much of the professional world of early stage finance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2010

Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding equity. Many startups delay incorporation until the first formal round of financing, which is too late. Finding a lawyer early is easy these days, through local networking or even online services like LawBidding.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

What does it take to be an Angel Investor? To the SEC, it means that you are an accredited investor and To the man (or woman) on the street, a minimum qualification would seem to be an interest and ability to invest in early stage ventures. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. While this may certainly be the case with unsophisticated angels (much less of these now) or in cases with no lead investor, Id argue the opposite.

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

government’s long standing restrictions on fundraising has given life to a new type of financing called crowdfunding that allows Angel and other early stage investors to quickly assemble a group of investors over the internet. While startups are still limited by the types of investors they can take money from (i.e.

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Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

Gust is the infrastructure that underlies much of the professional world of early stage finance.

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Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor Early Stage 89

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. How excited am I likely to be when I see a plan for a new generation of buggy whip, or another me-too social network? Described by BusinessWeek as a “world conquering.

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2012

While they provide huge value to the ecosystem and increase the density of network amongst startup and angel investors, they don’t unlock new sources of funding and don’t face the barriers of equity crowdfunding when dealing with a large number of non-accredited investors. Still considering options.

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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. They provide additional value add in the form of coaching and mentorship, and most of all access to a network of other entrepreneurs and smart people – that to me is really the real value of being involved with an incubator / accelerator.

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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.) Short answer: no.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We networked to him through three sources – one of my [Harvard Business School] professors who knew him well, a Silicon Valley CEO friend of Michael’s who knew him, and a Fortune 500 CEO with whom Michael was friendly. This approach will keep the financing relatively simple and inexpensive and will defer the company’s valuation (i.e.,

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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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. in fees is a hefty transaction fee considering company will still have legal and other fees on the financing. February 11, 2012 11:00 PM. Daniel Sisson.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

I also spend close to half my time teaching, and in addition to serving on the entrepreneurship advisory boards at Columbia, Yale and NYU, I am Chair of the Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics program at Singularity University in Silicon Valley. Marty: Were your own first investment ventures a positive and learning experience?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

Your Network. It might take some digging, but I’d bet you can work your way to accredited investors through your own network easier than you might think. Warm introductions are about the best thing you can get for meetings with potential investors. There are entire posts dedicated to raising money on AngelList.

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

House of Representatives overwhelming passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act , a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook.

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Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2012

House of Representatives voted 407-17 to pass the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook. What is Crowdfunding? May Startups Raise Funds via Crowdfunding?

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

And investors? Well, you would have needed to be a wealthy, accredited investor to get in on the upside, and only 3% of Americans meet the criteria to do that. And only then can you put asks out every single day to get the pitches from the smartest people in their network and expect it to look different.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

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. Very cool! I'm curious as to how the SEC will view FC.

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