Financing Your Startup: How to Sell Stock without Going to Jail

As the founder of a startup, one of the first issues you need to address is how to finance your company’s operations.  If you are lucky enough to be able to fund your startup out-of-pocket, or through generous family members, congratulations.  You can probably skip the rest of this post and get back to building your business.  However, if you are like most founders, you won’t be able to self-fund your company entirely and your revenues won’t exist yet, or won’t be adequate to grow the company.  In some instances you may be able to obtain or if you have some type of hard asset or significant ac
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Crowdfunding Gets a Hearing in the U.S. House

Washington, D.C. (Press Release – September 15, 2011) – Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council) member and entrepreneur Sherwood “Woodie” Neiss brings his Crowd Fund Investing (CFI) framework to a congressional hearing today, where there is growing support to modernize outdated security laws that prevent small business owners from tapping into their networks for raising capital. Today, the U.S. House Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs is hosting “Crowdfunding: Connecting Investors and Job Creators” where they will hear from Nei
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How Does A Small Angel Investment Impact a Future VC Round?

Q: Say I have an angel (SEC accredited) who’s ready to invest at an amount well below $100k. How would this impact on a future round with VCs? Is there some standard or average pre-money and post-money that happens in angel deals? Also, the angel in question is a family member of a friend, so would it be better to have them invest as a family/friend financier rather than an angel, and how exactly would that work? A: (Brad) Let me address the last question first.  There is no real difference between a “family/friend” investor and an “angel” investor other than semantics.  Structurally….
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Ask The VC: How Can An Entrepreneur Fundraise Without Getting In Trouble With the SEC?

There is a simple legal answer to your question: this type of behavior that you and your colleague are discussing is an illegal solicitation under th
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Rule 144 – Reg D Rule 506, Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Go Public Today, Private Investors

When you acquire restricted securities or hold control securities, you must find an exemption from the SEC’s registration requirements to sell them
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Kensington Equity – Services: Preparing Documents to Raise Capital

Regardless of the source of your financing–family and friends, angels, or venture capital–you will need some vehicle, forms, or set of papers to ma
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Regulation – SEC Rule 144

The Federal Securities Act of 1933 generally requires that stock and other securities must be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission
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Rule 144: Selling Restricted and Control Securities

When you acquire restricted securities or hold control securities, you must find an exemption from the SEC’s registration requirements to sell them
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Regulation D –Exemptions

For most entrepreneurs, the best vehicle to accomplish initial equity financing under an exemption is through the use of Regulation D, which is a lim
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A Short Introduction to the Securities Laws for Entrepreneurs

We are now going to look at some of the rules and types of offerings a company can make. From the point of view of a company issuing stock, the most
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