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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? Often times when companies raise “bridge” financing (this is money from internal investors. But when the finally convert the debt to equity the round gets filed with the SEC and thus journalists often pick up on it.

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FinTech Innovation Lab Launch Event – June 2, 2011

David Teten

Very enthusiastic about the potential for the NY tech ecosystem, leveraging our strength in finance. The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management. BROWN: Impersonation on social networks is a big problem. Introductory remarks. Maria Gotsch.

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

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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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking. Where is the press?

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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

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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House Passes Crowdfunding Bill: FAQ’s for Entrepreneurs

Scott Edward Walker

House of Representatives passed a crowdfunding bill that will allow startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites and social networking sites. As the term suggests, crowdfunding is funding from a crowd of people — that is, many people provide small amounts of money to finance something. What is Crowdfunding?

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Venture Outlook 2016

Both Sides of the Table

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. So eventually rationality has to occur. So my outlook for 2016?

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