Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Last month, the SEC announced it was taking action regarding Netflix’ (NFLX) securities compliance based on a Facebook status update posted by CEO Reed Hastings. The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media.

SEC 158

SEC Prospectus United States Technical Review 158

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. That will take a long time to settle.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry. Without these two laws (or their equivalent), the social media revolution of the past decade would have been stillborn.

IPO 110

IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn.

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.”

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Better yet, how confident are you that the investors behind the big social media and content platforms will insist on better polices going forward? Roblox will have a very nice IPO one day if it doesn’t have a big hate speech problem on its platform. Was there ever that kind of conversation at the board level?

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Cap Table Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 150