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JULY 10, 2012

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. Consider the above paragraph versus how this year started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. In reality, crowdfunding has become a major startup funding vehicle, expected to reach $3.62

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

In my experience, here are some of the key elements of that “second-stage” of entrepreneurship: Move from small investors to major venture capital. That requires work and risk to comply with reporting requirements of the SEC, including the additional accounting and reporting processes.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Expert networks have been in the news a lot for the past few weeks, due to the SEC’s attempt to look for insider trading amongst hedge funds, following on their Galleon investigation (Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon is in the photo shown). The best source of information on this topic is as usual the Integrity Research blog.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom. SimpliVT , a new venture in stealth has raised $9.2 from undisclosed investors as it emerged from this SEC filing. Innovid raised $4.1

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. Of roughly 312,000 unsuccessful projects, nearly 260,000 failed to reach even 20 percent of their goal.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Venture Chronicles

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The SEC fulfilled their obligation under the Frank-Dodd financial reform bill and defined what venture capital is. Represents itself to investors as being a venture capital fund. Treasury securities with a remaining maturity of 60 days or less, or cash. Does not offer redemption rights to its investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2017

No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. The SEC and local law enforcement agencies can’t help you much with foreign scams. Off-shore unsolicited investor offers. Unsolicited foreign investors that contact you on the Internet need extra scrutiny.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. The SEC and local law enforcement agencies can’t help you much with foreign scams. Off-shore unsolicited investor offers. Unsolicited foreign investors that contact you on the Internet need extra scrutiny.

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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. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital. However, as a VC, we have the opposite problem: how do we find companies in which to invest?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

This is interesting because just 2 years ago many of these businesses were shut down by the SEC. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. .&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Want to debate them?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Even with this, crowdfunding today means any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model.

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Gust

JANUARY 5, 2012

But, this SEC limit has created some problems for these high-tech phenoms, both in raising additional capital and in private sales through secondary markets in which early investors resell shares to a large number of smaller US buyers. Raising $1000 each from 1000 investors would surely seem to violate current SEC regulations.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2010

So, if I contribute $1,000 to the campaign of the Colorado state treasurer, I violate this SEC rule and become someone who is “paying to play.&# The NVCA has also studied the new SEC rule and has come to the same conclusion: “This ruling is consistent with guidance the NVCA has been providing members.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Generally speaking in venture capital financings the legal documents will specify that only “major investors” (a threshold set in the agreement – which can be $500,000 investor or more). They have listed forward revenue figures that are highly questionable and bring the issue of SEC oversight to my mind.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The book has been shepherded and edited by a great Japanese VC at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Venture Capital, Takashi Tsutsumi, with help from Masato Iino. After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 15, 2020

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Thanks to the SEC, you don't know who's actually fundraising, what kind of performance they have, and you'll never get reached by their marketing. Unlike a venture capital firm that states its criteria on its website and has forms, e-mail addresses, etc to encourage outreach, your site does a lot better job of saying "Go away!".

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. These are many of the steps I went through when I joined HOF Capital. The post How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm appeared first on David Teten.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2014

We were in the middle of fundraising for Softbank Venture Capital (which became Mobius Venture Capital.) Our underwriters (Merrill Lynch) told us not to worry that the SEC hadn’t cleared our filing yet – they always did it a few days before you went public. ” I remember a moment in time in 1997.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

These investments would be exempt from registration under the 1933 SEC Act. There is a reason the SEC exists. I cant remember if the SEC was one of the government agencies that Rick Perry wants to get rid of (but neither can he ), but it seems like this is the exact type of investor that the SEC was set up to protect.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

Thus, it should come as no surprise that we are now seeing Venture Capital being disrupted by these forces as well. In his post The Disruption of Venture Capital , Albert Wenger described VC as “the club you had to be invited into.”. Enter Mattermark: where “Big Data Meets Venture Capital”.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

I can't tell you anything about it thanks to the SEC. Until you realize that vetting and helping companies is actually really hard--or did you not notice all the news that venture capital as an asset class doesn't beat the market. Only the people who do it well produce returns, and when they do, they trounce the alternatives.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 23, 2016

We have recently registered with the SEC and are now considered Registered Investment Advisors. We had to, per the SEC rules. Well, we can’t tell you that or we could possibly break some other SEC rules. According to the SEC rules, we can no longer write anything that “promotes” our funds. And the reason you ask?

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

By contrast, venture capital and angel investments normally take the form of Preferred Stock with rights and preferences set forth in the company’s Certificate of Incorporation and other governance documents. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Social networking is governed by SEC 17a4, and SEC hasn’t opined on this. BROWN: Impersonation on social networks is a big problem. Ask the senator who was on TV. The water has already come over the damn. Consumers have 7-10meg on them. How do you use the social network as part of the relationship network?

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 2, 2012

While the crowdfunding portion of the bill still needs to go through SEC rule-making, the die is clearly cast that a whole new social networking – based world of start-up and small business investing and financing is coming fast upon us. This week, the President is expected to pass H.R.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

This is the ninth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. 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.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Technology riches yield bumper crops in venture capital with new firms and new largesses – the rewards of LPs rediscovering our asset class. Are LPs to blame?

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 6, 2009

I’ve been speaking publicly for over one year about the disastrous impact of the capital markets crisis in accelerating the demise of small emerging company IPO’s. Regulated – The market would be subject to the same SEC corporate disclosure, oversight and enforcement as existing markets.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? When It’s a Venture Capital Mark ”. John Borchers, Co-Founder of Decathlon Capital, observed, “If you look at the Inc. Suggested further reading: Checklist for Launching a New Venture Capital Fund.

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VC Adventure

MAY 23, 2016

We have recently registered with the SEC and are now considered Registered Investment Advisors. We had to, per the SEC rules. Well, we can’t tell you that or we could possibly break some other SEC rules. According to the SEC rules, we can no longer write anything that “promotes” our funds. Heck no. .

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 15, 2013

Raising Your First Round of Capital – solid post (via @mokoyfman ) for first-time entrepreneurs [link]. SEC Adopts JOBS Act Rule Eliminating Ban on General Solicitations…(via Debevoise) – good news for startups [link]. Firm-Related Tweets. Just sent out our quarterly newsletter via @MailChimp : [link].

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

But, in the US, only wealthy accredited investors * have been allowed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to invest in entrepreneurs and their startup companies (without extensive disclosure of the business plan and risks inherent to such new ventures). This is a rather controversial change in the SEC regulations.

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