Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. The increased exposure and opportunity of a public company comes with a higher risk to you and your Board with severe civil and criminal penalties for regulatory mistakes and non-compliance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. The increased exposure and opportunity of a public company comes with a higher risk to you and your Board with severe civil and criminal penalties for regulatory mistakes and non-compliance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the side door as a reverse merger. The increased exposure and opportunity of a public company comes with a higher risk to you and your Board with severe civil and criminal penalties for regulatory mistakes and non-compliance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, and an old one long out of favor, the so-called “reverse merger.” The increased exposure and opportunity of a public company comes with a higher risk to you and your Board of severe civil and criminal penalties for regulatory mistakes and non-compliance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

Thus I’m getting more questions on new mechanisms, like crowd funding, or going public through the backdoor as a reverse merger. The increased exposure and opportunity of a public company comes with a higher risk to you and your Board of severe civil and criminal penalties for regulatory mistakes and non-compliance.

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 13, 2011

I saw all this first-hand as an associate for nearly eight years at two major law firms in New York City. Big firms are great for huge, complicated corporate projects – like an initial public offering, a tender offer or a public company merger. Don’t Use a Big Law Firm.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. But unless Airbnb agreed to a merger, it had only two options.

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