Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The newest equity model was passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability in the USA, waiting for the rules to be defined by the SEC: Startup equity crowd funding. Of course, this might also lead to investors, partners, and licensing opportunities. Software crowd sourcing.

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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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Board Effect

MARCH 3, 2021

Board members of community banks regularly handle highly confidential information. The relationships that community banks have with their community are very important, and they can be a key to the bank’s success. Trust is a very important part of the relationship between community banks and the people they serve.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

despite having been passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability, waiting for the rules to be finalized by the SEC. In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors, is still not legal in the U.S.,

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Back in 1990’s, I was working for one of the leading sogo shohsa (trading company) in Japan, building data communications startups. After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x Their pivot resulted in great deal of customer tractions.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

This developed into another question: Even more, since there’s so much that goes on within the community, how can I know in one place, on my phone, what’s going on?—?in in the African communities around me? No class, no community project, and certainly no job straight of college can teach you all this?—?or in one undertaking!

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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

To give a high-level snapshot of the activity in just the investment community alone this past June, ATX Venture Partners closed a $150M fund, 8VC filed with the SEC regarding plans to raise an $880M fund and Mainsail Partners, a growth equity fund based in San Francisco, is planning to open an office in Austin this September ( Source: AustinInno ).

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

More uniquely, there are many other entrepreneurial members of their online community who can help you to brainstorm or even implement ideas. Equity Based Crowdfunding Sites: Once the SEC provides its rulings on how equity-based crowdfunding will work, we will see a crop of new equity-based crowdfunding sites.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. Yes, you really can use continuous deployment – even in an SEC regulated environment. Wealthfront CTO Pascal-Louis Perez will show you how.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 5, 2013

PHP with an ORM and Cake improved dramatically from last week''s test thanks to configuration changes recommended by the community. 8 threads and 256 connections Thread Stats Avg Stdev Max +/- Stdev Latency 10.07ms 7.80ms 73.59ms 77.37% Req/Sec 2.99k 1.07k 8.00k 88.42% 100002 requests in 3.68s, 59.89MB read Requests/sec: 27202.70

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Now all eyes are on the SEC as it adopts regulations to implement the new law with the hope that it won’t get tied up in red tape. That presents the tech entrepreneurship community with a genuine opportunity to influence outcomes.

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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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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We co-founded MState (fka hyperfab, read Coindesk article ) with Rob Bailey to help bring enterprise company building expertise and Fortune 500 connections to the blockchain community. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50.

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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. If venture funds could be supported by the local communities they invest in, you'd create a fantastic dynamic. At least it would be diversified across 25-30 companies--there's no such requirement in crowdfunding. I certainly would!

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

First in Wuhan, China, and then the fact that it can spread so quickly in Italy and continental Europe really surprises me and I think a lot of others as well in the scientific community. Once we saw this evidence, we thought, "Wait a sec, we can actually do something about it." Then I realized, "Oh no, this is really, really, real."

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2018

Jonathon Clarke is a qualified pharmacist with experience across hospital, community andacademia sec tor. Using the tactics that we have laid out here can help your startup to follow in our footsteps towards success. Michael Budden is a web and graphic designer.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Back off SEC: Let’s Put the “Risk&# of Secondary Markets in Perspective – [link]. Good summary by @stammy of the trials and tribulations of startup fundraising – [link]. Pennies from Heaven: Chicago Startups’ Experiences with Angel Investors – [link]. The Myth Of Work Life Balance – [link].

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Gust

JULY 18, 2012

The basic structure of corporate governance is well ingrained among the legal and investment communities, but it’s worth reviewing for those who don’t enjoy dealing with Board resolutions and proxy statements for a living. ” Typical governance structure (Sony Corporation).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 29, 2016

This helps you expand and it pays forward some of your success to others in your local independent and entrepreneurial communities. These people deserve a raise–nothing extravagant (we’ll get to why in a sec), but enough to make a difference for them. Showing Appreciation.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In it, I examine how the hobbyist community is now building inexpensive unmanned aerial vehicle auto-pilot hardware and software. The underlying requirement based on those assumptions was an available bandwidth of about 1.6mb/sec, which we would hit in 2005.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

Look across virtually any industry and you’ll see great examples where traditional spaces are being disrupted by software, access to data, and massive online communities. The product collects, cleans, and curates data from news sites, SEC filings, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, AngelList, CrunchBase, and more. Image via CrunchBase.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Meanwhile, SEC filings indicate that Frazier Healthcare and Voyager Capital — both of Seattle — are on the prowl for more money. GeekWire Events. Startup Resources. Dispatches from the Digital Frontier. About GeekWire. Contact Us. Advertise with GeekWire. Posts Comments Startups. STARTUP SPOTLIGHT. VENTURE CAPITAL. ENTREPRENEURS. E-COMMERCE.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2010

According to this SEC filing , Varien has raised $22.5 Similar to Wordpress, Magento has an active open source community, developing extensions and plugins for free. According to this SEC filing, Varien has raised $22.5 million in an equity deal to an undisclosed investor. million in an equity deal to an undisclosed investor.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 22, 2018

While the conversation was under Chatham House Rules and I can’t discuss her specific comments in this newsletter, she is very open to collaboration with the crypto community, while being clear that the SEC continues to actively investigate token offerings for potential violations of current securities laws.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 4, 2012

The leader now - and in the future - remains Kickstarter, Steinberg says, with room left for a handful of other large crowdfunding platforms and many niche-focused sites that cater to specific startup communities, such as video game developers. “We The SEC has yet to weigh in on regulation. This will only continue to accelerate.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Crowdfunding: Its Practical Effect May Be Unclear Until SEC Rulemaking is Complete. Despite the buzz among entrepreneur communities, various restrictions may make crowdfunding impractical for companies raising money and the intermediaries that facilitate the process. Crowdfunding Prior to the JOBS Act. Crowdfunding Under the JOBS Act.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

This is a strategy where you can use a funding platform like Kickstarter.com to name a funding goal, explain to the community what your plan is, and receive small investments from anyone interested in your project. The crowdfunding strategy, however, has also caught the attention of the SEC and has been regulated by the 2012 JOBS Act.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2017

But what that means in reality is I love helping awesome entrepreneurs find solutions to tough problems, create jobs that support families, and build their communities. Within the last year I have also launched Crowdvest, an equity crowdfunding platform and Crowdvest Securities, which has filed to be a broker-dealer with FINRA and the SEC.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? This is unintentional and inevitable. They also avoid Reg D.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 3, 2009

  The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was.   This shielding of communication must not be allowed, particularly in the finance function.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Deal experience, industry knowledge and relationships with the investor community are important criteria for choice of bankers. It is also important for business owners to ensure that the investment banker they wish to hire is a broker dealer registered with the FINRA and SEC. ”.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

“As social networks continue to expand in industries like financial services, effective and flexible social tools will be critical to leveraging these networks for the needs of the business community and will continue to catalyze adoption.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. I'm an entrepreneurial minded kid, but I really wanted to do something to help my community.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

And you have to worry about SEC compliance A LOT. In many cases, you need a community of users already (in addition to a product) in order have a successful token sale. And as an app, I would get a full v1 product and start pulling together community. This is because it’s pretty involved to do an ICO.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

And you have to worry about SEC compliance A LOT. In many cases, you need a community of users already (in addition to a product) in order have a successful token sale. And as an app, I would get a full v1 product and start pulling together community. This is because it’s pretty involved to do an ICO.

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