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Are You Ready for Equity Based Crowdfunding?

Up and Running

The SEC’s proposed rules (mandated by the JOBS Act of 2012) amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to allow the offer and sale of securities through an internet crowdfunding campaign, similar in some respects to donation crowdfunding campaigns conducted on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The investors.

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Forget Presidential Politics: Here’s How We Create Jobs — And How You Can Help

Gust

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Intellectual Property. Free Speech.

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Mercenaries, Missionaries, and Crusaders

View from Seed

The literal definition of a mercenary is a soldier who fights for monetary reward rather than political cause or national affiliation, and in modern times we often use the term as a derogatory description of someone’s attitude or motivations. The Mercenary. The Missionary.

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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

Both Sides of the Table

They were started in affiliation with IdeaLab and were the first-round lead in PayPal. Read more: SEC S1 Filing (amended 05-03-2010) , peHUB. It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

affiliate and referral marketing on the web. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. Internet trends. Internet TV. State of the Internet. Custora â?? customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. Highrise â?? small business CRM.