thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

As we near the end of 2018, “the year of regulation”, it is fitting that the SEC has made moves in the past couple of weeks providing more action and clarity around its digital assets enforcement strategy. The SEC charged the founder with operating an unregistered exchange, its first action against a DEX.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As we near the end of 2018, “the year of regulation”, it is fitting that the SEC has made moves in the past couple of weeks providing more action and clarity around its digital assets enforcement strategy. The SEC charged the founder with operating an unregistered exchange, its first action against a DEX.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2012

by Kent Campbell, SEO expert and founder of InternetReputationManagement. Negative SEC filings are bad enough, but having one show up on the first page of a Google search for your brand when someone is deciding whether or not to do business with you is much worse. They’re here. Unmanaged, these sites can sink your company online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

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. Public companies of any size must comply immediately with the full reporting requirements of the SEC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

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. Public companies of any size must comply immediately with the full reporting requirements of the SEC.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2011

However, I don’t really care about the daily stock prices – instead, I’m focused on the actual SEC filings. I used to subscribe to several services for SEC filings (remember EDGAR Online and 10KWizard ) but let them lapse a while ago. My partner Jason suggested I just use the SEC website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

While the latter is not yet legal in the United States, the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April 2012, mandates that the SEC makes it legal by January 1st of 2013. Crowdfunding is the process of raising capital by offering rewards to ‘backers’ by pre-selling your product or offering equity in exchange.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. We raised $280 million.

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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. In fact, it’s highly unlikely that you as the Founder will survive. Bring in an experienced Board and world-class leaders.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

In my experience founders usually fall into one of three types: mercenaries, missionaries, and crusaders. In fact we’ve backed founders I’d categorize as all three types here at NextView. But sometimes they’re the founders most motivated to build a successful company.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

Other founders say having a baby beats it, but we’ll have to wait and see about that. But before we got back to work, we had to hire a lawyer to help out with both the SAFE docs and to file our FORM D with the SEC so we can register our raise. Those could help out a lot of founders. The lawyer’s rate was crazy?—?$575

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

We then co-founded Sage Networks (which changed its name to Interliant) with Raj Bhargava (NetGenesis co-founder) and Steve Maggs (whose company was also acquired by AmeriData.) We went public two months later, but there was a lot of Scotch drunk the night we got that fax from the SEC. Our order book collapsed two days later.

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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. I think it’s great to have more options, but I still see each one having a place, so don’t be too quick to limit your alternatives.

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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. The response was surprisingly positive.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. How founders get screwed on convertible notes. They have listed forward revenue figures that are highly questionable and bring the issue of SEC oversight to my mind. We all know that funding markets have changed for startups.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

First up, Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus (and designer of its famous spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3), the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Level Playing Field Institute (and more ). But along with Intuit founder Scott Cook, Brad is a leader that recognizes that entrepreneurship is critical to his company’s success.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 12, 2013

The company is one of several firms taking advantage of the JOBS act of 2012, which relaxes regulations for equity investing and allows individuals to own stock in new startups without being SEC accredited. The post Greenhouse Founders Featured on Slice of Silicon Hills News appeared first on SiliconHills. This means that you, or a [.]

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

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. Public companies of any size must comply immediately with the full reporting requirements of the SEC.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

The early days of a business’ journey require the founders to pour their energy into focusing on getting their product or service perfected and out to customers in the marketplace. If your startup business has more than one founder, a Partnership Agreement, which is an operating agreement, is essential. SEC Regulations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money.

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Venture Chronicles

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The SEC fulfilled their obligation under the Frank-Dodd financial reform bill and defined what venture capital is. Investor/founder buyouts. It’s not uncommon for a VC to invest in a company and have a portion of the invested capital go to buying out founders and other investors. debt) prove to be onerous.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Geir Freysson, founder of Five Hundred Plus , did a super cool visualization of some of the top syndicates and how the participants in the syndicate relate to each other. . Angel Investing angelist crowdfunding fg angel sec syndicates' We are humbled by all the support and interest. We’ve chosen our first deal to do.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Consider the above paragraph versus how this year started. These certainly are not the only funds playing in the space, but point to the quality of minds entering the space.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

by Bryce Welker, founder of Crush The CPA Exam. Before your financial statements can be filed with the SEC or distributed outside of your business, an external auditor must ensure your records adhere to GAAP. As the Founder of Crush The CPA Exam , he has helped thousands of candidates pass the CPA exam on their first attempt. .

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 3, 2021

Dear Founders: Here Are Three IP Mistakes To Watch-Out For. SEC Expands “Accredited Investor” Definition. Happy New Year! Below is a list of my top three posts in 2020. Cheers, Scott. Selling Your Company? Here’s A Legal Checklist. The post Top 3 Posts in 2020 appeared first on WALKER CORPORATE LAW GROUP, PLLC.

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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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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Nevertheless, there are literally thousands of other examples scattered around the country, each of which grew from a founder or two with an idea to a successful growth company employing scores, hundreds or even thousands of skilled employees, with the attendant benefits to the local and national economy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2018

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. And they are all very different from the business-to-consumer or business-to-business markets most founders and their investors are familiar with. In the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2013

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 5, 2020

And I have heard from a number of US crypto projects that have been abandoned by the founders because of regulatory threats to their business. Crypto needs to be regulated. But in order to foster innovation and allow new projects to innovate and experiment, we need a better legal framework.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2014

I was a co-founder and co-chairman. Our underwriters (Merrill Lynch) told us not to worry that the SEC hadn’t cleared our filing yet – they always did it a few days before you went public. Day after day passed and we didn’t hear from the SEC. In 1999 we filed an S-1 to take Sage Networks public.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2019

by Dan Abatte, co-founder of 81-c. Did the former head of the SEC just join your board of directors? Dan Abatte is one of the co-founders of 81-c , a company that’s pioneering entrepreneurship as an asset class enabling anyone in the world to invest in businesses that would typically never be available to the public.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 7, 2014

You can read Krager’s article for all the figures (many of which are from Hubspot’s S1 SEC filing and from Moz directly), but here are some of the key differences: Hubspot spends $11,233 to acquire a new customer. Likely, Hubspot’s founders and investors pushed for market growth and dominance regardless of cost. The answer is no.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 2, 2018

In his fireside chat with Silver Lake co-founder Glenn Hutchins, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton started his remarks talking about the promise of distributed ledger technology (aka blockchain). It’s a concise read on the SEC’s perspective and provides clear guidance on their current thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2012

I often recommend business networking as the most effective way for a startup founder to find investors, advisors, and even key executive candidates. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money.

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