Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Cyberattacks Are Here and Rising Globally speaking, organizations in the financial services sector suffered the second-largest number of known breaches in 2022, just behind government organizations and ahead of the retail sector, according to threat intelligence firm Flashpoint. Ransomware attacks are rising and becoming increasingly costly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2017

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. Unsolicited foreign investors that contact you on the Internet need extra scrutiny. The SEC and local law enforcement agencies can’t help you much with foreign scams.

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Technical Review Non-disclosure Agreement Due Diligence Entrepreneur 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. Unsolicited foreign investors that contact you on the Internet need extra scrutiny. The SEC and local law enforcement agencies can’t help you much with foreign scams.

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Technical Review Non-disclosure Agreement Due Diligence Entrepreneur 202

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. If scooters were not being stolen, reprogrammed, vandalized, thrown into lakes, hung from trees, or pooped on, many city governments felt they were being hustled by these companies in a post-Uber world.

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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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Accredited Investor SEC San Francisco Equity 95

Feld Thoughts

MAY 26, 2017

Phil is a rare entrepreneur who can bring innovation to the government, which is just the sort of leadership we need now. While that might not sound like a traditional role of a state Attorney General, when it comes to fighting for access to broadband Internet technology and building partnerships that support economic success, Phil is unique.

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Colorado SEC Leadership Campaign 110

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

What is the role of public and private organizations in governing our shared civic fabric? Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? I think it was December of 2010, and happened to just be reading that paper on the internet one day and just immediately captivated my attention. This is Out Of the Crisis. I'm curious.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. If you read the headlines or talk with zealous friends you may well think cryptocurrencies are either our savior from bureaucratic, ossified governments or are purely speculative Ponzi schemes.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I wont go into the details of the bill, but at a high level, it allows entrepreneurs to raise funds over the Internet up to a maximum of $1M annually (or $2M with audited financials). These investments would be exempt from registration under the 1933 SEC Act. There is a reason the SEC exists.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers. Thanks guys!)

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In recent years, government regulation has emerged as another such force to be reckoned with in the technology industry. 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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IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

Governance/Control – Founder/CEO Mark Pincus has sold a good amount of his stock and owns <20% of shares outstanding, but now essentially has unilateral voting control of the company. You can read about all of this stuff in Zynga’s own SEC filings or the popular press.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

When one agent acts on behalf of multiple principals, the multiple principals have to agree on the agent’s objectives, but face a collective action problem in governance, as individual principals may lobby the agent or otherwise act in their individual interests rather than in the collective interest of all principals.”

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. SEC Visits Silicon Valley. A few weeks ago, on March 31, 2016, the Chair of the SEC made a trip to Silicon Valley and gave a speech at an event at Stanford Law School. Late 2015 also brought the arrival of “mutual fund markdowns.” Caveat emptor.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s. The NVCA recommended the five-year period as part of what it called the "IPO on-ramp."

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IPO Startup Florida Seed Capital 121

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

They forget that taxpayers funded the creation of the internet and contributed to pharmaceutical discoveries. They want the government off their backs except when it comes to making sure no one builds affordable housing down the street from them. Some investors who rewrite the history of innovation.

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