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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media. Before the commercial Internet, the primary tools of disclosure included: Prospectus and related registration statement (“S-1″) for an IPO.

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

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Without these two laws (or their equivalent), the social media revolution of the past decade would have been stillborn. Yet the content industry (principally represented by RIAA and MPAA) has been relentless in pushing for UGC site operators to be deputized in a copyright police state in the interest of fighting piracy.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. But for all this to happen, a really key point is to have a really good prospectus. A prospectus is what gets the initial interest from people. A prospectus is actually very easy to put together. I can’t complain.