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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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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. Before the commercial Internet, the primary tools of disclosure included: Prospectus and related registration statement (“S-1″) for an IPO.

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The Achilles Heel of Startup Ecosystems

This is going to be BIG.

Resistor is a bit under the radar as a very cool community—and so being associated with it was a signal that I could have only known about if, again, I spent all of my efforts as a seed investor turning over every rock looking for opportunity. They can help filter who these organizations should be focusing their time in supporting.

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Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control

David Teten

Investor prospectus . Inflection Community. Also see Why I Invested in SparkToro. You can see their Folder with All the Documents , including the: LLC Agreement. One-Page Term Sheet. Class A Unit Purchase Agreement. FOR FURTHER READING. Other observers on RBI and other new approaches. v3: Austin (Roadshow 2019). Conferences.

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

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I will leave it to law professor Eric Goldman to articulate better than I could why “ this law mortally threatens the entire UGC community.” As I write this, Congress is teetering on the brink of passing the most disastrously ill-conceived law in the 18-year history of the commercial Internet, SOPA.

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

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

To find that buyer, I pretty much contacted the people who were within my sphere of influence within the community of Magic – players, card store owners, people who traded cards. It’s just a forum, that’s all this is, a community forum with lots of people sharing an interest. A prospectus is what gets the initial interest from people.