Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2010

Every reputable investment firms has to file regular reports with the SEC. Have you or your firm ever been disciplined by the SEC or a state regulator? Here are some common sense tips: Get financial statements and verify. Look for these and investigate thoroughly to check the truth of every statement about the company.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 29, 2016

These people deserve a raise–nothing extravagant (we’ll get to why in a sec), but enough to make a difference for them. Paying forward your good fortune doesn’t just set up your own company for a potential influx of funds later (depending on the type of investment you make), it’s great for your and your business’s reputations.

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Board Effect

MARCH 3, 2021

Such risks aren’t working taking as they can leave your board in violation of SEC regulations or other current or future regulations. What can be even more damaging is the reputational damage that can occur when members of the community lose their trust and confidence in the bank. Community bank boards meet as often as they need to.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. He shut down his company gracefully and even thought it must have felt like a crap sandwich doing so I’ll bet his reputation is still solid with his backers. And so it goes again. Many are well known.

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View from Seed

MARCH 12, 2015

These and other sites amalgamate data from SEC filings, press articles, and self-reported info, and they can help entrepreneurs understand not just what companies a VC invested in but at which round/stage. Nowadays there are other options for online research too. Ask Us (and Be Direct).

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

And that our fair regulators have at least an implicit understanding that very real (and real time) reputation and compliance checks and balances of our always on, always connected, online world is just better than the Feds’ analog and antiquated regulatory regime. As in over e-mail. As a patriotic American, I say "hooray."

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. He shut down his company gracefully and even thought it must have felt like a crap sandwich doing so I’ll bet his reputation is still solid with his backers. And so it goes again. I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

No business owner should enter into an agreement with an investor before learning about the terms they offer and their reputation. In order to become an angel investor, one must have a net worth of at least $1 million, an annual income of $200,000 and be accredited by the SEC.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

Historically they have been a kind of back-door way for a company to go public, and as a result have historically had a sub-standard reputation. Some Sponsors have a louder microphone, perhaps a higher profile, and perhaps a better reputation. Is there a reputation issue with respect to going public through a SPAC?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

If you join a fund, you’ll invest your financial capital, but far more importantly, your reputational capital. I thought it would be helpful to put together some notes on market norms and issues to consider in negotiating a partnership at an institutional investment firm. These are many of the steps I went through when I joined HOF Capital.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

And you have to worry about SEC compliance A LOT. The bar for protocols is basically a solid idea with some development and a really reputable team. Moreover, most companies I’m seeing these days who are doing token sales are not even doing ICOs. They are just doing private sales directly to various investors / investor groups.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

And you have to worry about SEC compliance A LOT. The bar for protocols is basically a solid idea with some development and a really reputable team. Moreover, most companies I’m seeing these days who are doing token sales are not even doing ICOs. They are just doing private sales directly to various investors / investor groups.

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Transformify

MARCH 22, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States has warned investors about the dangers of investing in cryptocurrencies and has pursued enforcement proceedings against people and businesses participating in fraudulent activities on social media platforms.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The SEC defines an "accredited investor" as someone with over amillion dollars in liquid assets or an income of over $200,000 ayear. One of the dangers of taking investment from individual angels,rather than through an angel group or investment firm, is that theyhave less reputation to protect.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

They use the reputation of the other investors as a proxy for due diligence. They didn’t call you before when they built their reputation. 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.

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Venture Chronicles

MARCH 23, 2010

defines “super angels&# as an accredited investors (yes this is a defined category of investor, look it up on the SEC site, who makes at least 2 minimum $50k investments every 3 years and is a U.S. Reading the text of the bill it is clear that this bill: takes existing visa and allocates them for the startup visa program.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Readers of these pages would obviously know that AngelList is the 800-pound gorilla and the most reputable but the truth is that many new crowd-funding platforms are appearing globally and funding through such platforms has skyrocketed in just the past two years from $400 million to a whopping $2.6

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 22, 2009

That’s why I have urged the SEC to undertake a comprehensive “ground up” review of a broad range of market structure issues before more piecemeal changes occur.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

If you want to buy artisan goods on Etsy, the marketplace helps you source goods and verify a degree of reputation. But for the same reason we have SEC oversight on trading public stocks, we need oversight or nefarious actors will manipulate the system. Same Airbnb, Upwork, Thumbtack and others.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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