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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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Additionally, a fundraising business offering and selling securities must comply with the regulations of the SEC, the federal government’s securities watchdog. The SEC’s proposed equity crowdfunding rules regulate, in part: Your business (the securities issuer). Develop a Business Plan. Develop Your Business Plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

That requires work and risk to comply with reporting requirements of the SEC, including the additional accounting and reporting processes. Switch your focus from product development to sales. Then there is the pressure to go public ( IPO ), and open your investment to thousands, maybe millions, of small investors.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 21, 2013

However, before entrepreneurs could start using equity-based crowdfunding, the SEC had to write the specific rules governing it. The SEC was given 9 months to write those rules; they were due on December 31, 2012. However, the SEC failed to meet that deadline. The good news is that any day, they will.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2020

In June of 2019, the SEC adopted Regulation Best Interest (or Reg BI), which went into effect as of June 30, 2020. It’s always important for financial professionals to stay educated on current regulations, but there are times when special attention is necessary, like when a new regulation goes into effect.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2019

From my view, it also delineates regulatory authority between FinCEN and the SEC in the US. While the SEC has not provided guidance on “utility tokens” my read is that they are captured in the FinCEN document. Having just read through the entire document, I think it is significant in the clarity it provides.

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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., angels crowdfunding entrepreneur investor'

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Students formed teams, got out of the classroom and talked to the stakeholders and developed policy recommendations. They developed hypotheses of how commercial technologies can be used in new and creative ways to help the U.S. Expose students to experiential learning on policy questions. Why This Class? Government.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

To refresh your memory, angel investors are typically high net worth individuals, accredited by the SEC and willing to invest their own money in a high-potential startup for a share of the ownership. They don’t get excited by early stage research, development, or marketing hype. Crowdfunding is not the best platform here.

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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 Photo of the first online design in the library I shared my first design with my developer friend Eyesodike, who was then working for VISA as a developer.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 26, 2021

We called on Frank again to explain where Dall-E (and the broader topic of machine learning) sits on the path toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), how Dall-E’s transformer-type architecture is able to infer information, what its limitations might be, and what uses we might see as this technology develops.

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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. A few other highlights from this year’s lineup: How Groupon is using Lean Startup ideas to scale their product development team, by VP of Product Development Suneel Gupta.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

In the early fall of 2009, as kaChing prepared for its marketplace launch, the management team showed the app—which included real time market data, SEC-grade accounting, analytics, compliance and customer management tools—to a number of investment pros to get feedback and endorsements.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

Thematically our new investments include 4 targeting the “Rise of the Developer,” 3 in “Intelligent Automation,” and 1 in “Decentralized Computing;” geographically 4 are in NYC, 3 in Bay Area, and 1 in LA (more on our themes ). AYX NYSE) and init.ai , one an early investment in a data science platform and the other on NLP for developers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2018

regulation happens on three levels: federal laws that are applicable across the country are developed by Federal government in Washington. startups might run into an alphabet soup of federal regulatory agencies, for example; ATF , CFPB , DEA , EPA , FAA , FCC , FDA , FDIC , FERC , FTC , OCC , OSHA , SEC. In the U.S. In the U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2018

These may be highly-sophisticated businesspeople who have developed an expertise in cryptocurrency, cryptocurrency investment aces who have developed a financial services business (perhaps by starting a cottage industry advising friends and family), or anything in between. Searching the adviser on BrokerCheck. Google the adviser.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

HBSANY members are required to be accredited investors (per SEC regulations) and are expected to agree to the terms of the HBSANY Membership Agreement. C8 Sciences ( [link] ) markets web-delivered cognitive development programs based on Yale IP of integrated computer and physical exercises. To Join HBS Angels of New York: 1.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

It appears extremely friendly to businesses, it has easily-understood legal processes, has well-developed corporate statuses, and some call it a “tax haven” because it doesn’t collect taxes from out-of-state businesses. . Some corporations also need to register with the SEC , so be sure to research whether that is required for your company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In developing countries, like China and India, the statistics are reversed. Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

growth to other developed countries, “It isn’t difficult to be the least dirty shirt in the hamper these days.” 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. As The Economist put it, comparing U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Back off SEC: Let’s Put the “Risk&# of Secondary Markets in Perspective – [link]. Must Read Links for Web Designers and Developers – Volume 1 – [link]. 4 Reasons Why Designers and Developers Should Learn to Write – [link]. User Experience for Developers – [link].

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

On Appsfunder, you'll start by telling the story behind your idea, get funded by milestones as it's developed, and then launching it in the iTunes and Google Android markets. 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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TechEmpower

APRIL 5, 2013

Last week, we posted the results of benchmarking several web application development and frameworks. We received comments, recommendations, advice, criticism, questions, and most importantly pull requests from dozens of readers and developers. Transfer/sec: 16.29MB. The response was tremendous.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

SEC Greenlights One Style Of Equity Crowdfunding For Startups | TechCrunch – [link]. 30 Fresh Useful Resources for Developers and Designers | TechnoGerms – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. ” – [link].

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Gust

MAY 14, 2014

Because these are legal documents, both parties (the company and the investor(s)) have their own lawyers, who work together to develop the actual agreements signed by the principals. Once the investment has occurred, regular legal issues for the company are the responsibility of the company’s management, just like everything else.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2019

Did the former head of the SEC just join your board of directors? Blenders don’t exactly energize an audience, but that didn’t stop Blendtec from developing a popular YouTube channel around their product. Entrepreneurs nowadays want to boast about brand-name investors, huge rounds of funding, and a team of high-skill employees.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

They can also help you develop your product and sales channels. Seed funding is usually used to support product development, sales, and marketing. The management company must file certain reports with the SEC and some states. These firms can provide various services, including financing and business advice.

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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. In fact, thanks to increased scrutiny of investment funds in a post-Madoff world, this imbalance will probably get bigger and bigger. The laws are written seemingly with the view that it's worse to lose your money from fraud than it is from your run of the mill poorly exacuted bad idea.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

These programs are typically required for any company that wants to maintain its status as a certified public accountant; for example, they must follow specific reporting requirements set forth by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

by Karen Karalash, Business Development Manager at SmartyAds LLP. The interactive features of the new ad formats, increased in-app experience, and the value they brought have helped all parties benefit: the user, advertiser and the publisher/developer. Such “micro-game” inside a game has 5-50 sec.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2017

It is essential to find a DMS that is compliant with requirements set by HIPAA, the SEC, and other regulatory organizations. Some even offer role-based permissions, meaning you control the accessibility users get to certain documents depending on their needs. Keep sensitive documents out of the hands of those who should not access them.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 6, 2021

2021 is proving to be an incredible year across our portfolio – from big funding announcements to significant product developments. The SEC declared Coinbase ’ s S-1 registration statement effective. Despite the obvious challenges, we ended 2020 on a strong note and, so far, our portfolio family has been riding a huge momentum wave.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

It’s still necessary to imagine the future development (although the trends can help inspire ideas). At my panel on the future of artificial intelligence at SXSW, one of my co-panelists objected to the notion that exponential growth in computer power was, by itself, all that was necessary to develop human level intelligence in computers.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2018

Jonathon Clarke is a qualified pharmacist with experience across hospital, community andacademia sec tor. They developed Locate a Locum together when Jonathon discovered first hand the struggles of finding locum work. Using the tactics that we have laid out here can help your startup to follow in our footsteps towards success.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Last Tuesday February the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing with SEC Chairman Jay Clayton and CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo to discuss potential cryptocurrency regulation. A few notable quotes from the hearings: From CFTC Chairman Giancarlo: “‘ Do no harm’ was unquestionably the right approach to development of the Internet.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The key to the JOBS Act is this: it opens up more possibilities in equity funding without the tedious requirements to register your funding as a public offering with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). This was predicated on the SEC writing the crowdfunding regulations by December 31 2012 like they were supposed to.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

Are they, were they, and the SEC were when a few brave souls were warning about Madoff to deaf ears? It expended 14M to develop a technology that was stolen. Damages could be in the BILLIONS. This is not about LAME. It is about an outright THEFT. Leader has already won on INFRINGEMENT. Where is the press? link] leehower.

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