Venture Chronicles

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The SEC fulfilled their obligation under the Frank-Dodd financial reform bill and defined what venture capital is. Only invests in equity securities of private operating companies to provide primarily operating or business expansion capital (not to buy out other investors), U.S.

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Venture Capital SEC Redemption Bridge Financing 49

Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

I remain surprised that this seems to be difficult for our policy makers to understand, but I am encouraged that the SEC has recently invited public comments for a 90 day period to address structural problems with the U.S. equity markets. For more on the SEC Concept Release, click HERE. I believe that the U.S.

IPO 28

IPO Government SEC Venture Capital 28

David Teten

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Nadim Malik is CEO of Sutton Place Strategies , which helps private equity funds optimize deal sourcing by leveraging its proprietary database of investment banker activity. It is also important for business owners to ensure that the investment banker they wish to hire is a broker dealer registered with the FINRA and SEC. ”.

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Investment Bankers Database Private Equity SEC 60

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Almost all of them would be characterized as venture capital, with a few exceptions for funds managed by The Blackstone Group ( BX ), Providence Equity Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. Term Sheet.

Naming 49

Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Gust

JANUARY 5, 2012

Since the IPO market has been in the doldrums for most of the past decade, high-profile private companies have chosen (or been forced) to stay private while raising huge sums of money from VCs and other private equity sources. Raising $1000 each from 1000 investors would surely seem to violate current SEC regulations.

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SEC Angel Groups Technical Review Private Equity 131

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It might appear that origination is becoming much easier because of new tools like AngelList and the SEC moving toward adoption of rules that will allow equity based crowdfunding. We published the full report in the Journal of Private Equity ; it’s now the #2-most viewed article in the Journal’s history.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

It allows small businesses to raise $1 million, from a limit of 10% of income or $10,000 from individual investors, without registering their companies with the SEC. Currently, these Crowdfunding sites don’t give donors any equity in the companies. The Entrepreneurs Access to Capital Act helps to redress this.

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Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

Venture Chronicles

MARCH 26, 2010

This is not the first time that this status has been the focus of redefinition… in 2006 the SEC proposed redefining this class to limit access to hedge funds and at the time they calculated that 8.5% households qualified as accredited investors under the Rule 501 Reg D rules but only 1.3%

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Accredited Investor Private Equity .Net SEC 38

Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

LLC’s are geared for private equity funds, hedge funds and real estate guys, not startups, for a number of reasons: (i) extremely complicated tax partnership rules; (ii) creates capitalization/capital raising problems – e.g., essentially does not allow for stock options plans and convertible notes, etc.; (iii)

Software Review 111

Software Review Delaware Accredited Investor Due Diligence 111

Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

issues to address include: How have they treated their other portfolio companies?

Software Review 111

Software Review Delaware Accredited Investor Due Diligence 111

David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching Revenue-Based Investing and other new approaches to VC. The question I’m asking myself: should a new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing, traditional equity VC, or possibly both (likely from two separate pools of capital)? Antifragile, countercyclical model.

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Revenue SBIC Cofounder Venture Capital 60

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point. Argonaut Private Equity.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53