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Interview: Nick Lissette, Blackpearl Group

NZ Entrepreneur

Richard Liew talks with Nick Lissette, the Wellington based founder and CEO of data technology company Blackpearl Group , following the company’s recent $2.2M private placement equity raise. WATCH NOW: The post Interview: Nick Lissette, Blackpearl Group appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Gaja Capital invests Rs 204 crore in Navi Technologies

Our Own Start-up

The latest private placement follows a fundraising of over Rs 3,000 crore by the company, led by Bansal and other investors earlier this month. Three entities belonging to Gaja Capital, including Gaja Capital Fund-II, GCFII-B and Gaja Capital India AIF Trust have received the allotments.

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Convertible Note Seed Financings: Founders Beware!

Scott Edward Walker

Part 2, entitled “ Convertible Note Seed Financings: Econ 101 for Founders ,” addressed the economics. One of the tricky issues that founders must address in the note is what happens if their startup is acquired prior to the note’s conversion (and prior to the note’s maturity date, as discussed below). This is another tricky issue.

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How to Get Funding for a Business

Up and Running

Real angel investors want to deal with the startup team founders, not brokers, or finders, or consultants. Don’t take private placement, angels, friends, and family as good sources of investment capital just because they are described here or taken seriously in some other source of information. Commercial lenders.

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SEC Expands “Accredited Investor” Definition

Scott Edward Walker

The most common exemption used by startups is the so-called “private placement” exemption under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. In conclusion (and just a friendly reminder to founders), you need to take compliance with applicable securities laws very seriously. Noncompliance Issues.

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Do I need a PPM for my startup’s financing?

Austin Startup

PPM stands for “Private Placement Memorandum.” You can think of it as the private company equivalent of an S-1 , the long disclosure document that companies produce when going IPO. Founders outside of Silicon Valley can sometimes forget that most of the resources — blogs, articles, podcasts, tweets, etc. — on

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Why Finders Are Losers

The Startup Lawyer

Whenever a startup considers paying a “finder&# for successful investor introductions, I have the same type of conversation with the founders that goes something like this: – Startup : “Finder&# knows a lot of investors and he’ll introduce us if we pay him [6]% of all capital raised through the introductions.

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