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Monthly Archives: March 2013
SEC Permits Carried Interest for VC Advisors
The SEC this week issued a no-action letter to the FundersClub to permit it to take a 20% to 30% carried profits interest in its venture capital funds for the provision of traditional advisory and consulting services (ie, not transaction-based … Continue reading
Posted in Broker dealers, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, FINRA, Funding Portals, Investments, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged administrative fees, carried interest, compensation, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, custody account, due diligence, escrow, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA, hedge fund, internet, investment adviser, investments, JOBS Act, registration, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, small business, startups, statutory disqualification, thefundersclub, transaction based compensation, venture capital, venture capital adviser, website
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Crowdfunding for a Cause
Movie star Karen Black (“Easy Rider,” “Five Easy Pieces”), 73, was first diagnosed with ampullary cancer in November 2010. With little savings and living on a pension, she has turned to the crowdfunding website GoFundMe to raise up to $22,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film, FINRA, Funding Portals, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, States, Tax
Tagged cancer, cancer treatments, charity, chemotherapy, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, Easy Rider, Europe, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA, Five Easy Pieces, GoFundMe, Hollywood, Jack Nicholson, JOBS Act, Karen Black, medical bills, movie star, pension, radiation, savings, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, website
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Studio Cops to Kickstarter Campaign
Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara apparently acknowledged that it was the studio, not an independent producer, who orchestrated the Kickstarter campaign for the Veronica Mars movie. The CEO’s strategy is to balance the maintenance of profits from traditional sources while … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film, Legislative Intent, SEC, Venture Capital
Tagged behind the scenes, Comcast, contributions, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, DVD, fanbase, fans, film, film finance, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA, independent films, indie, IndieGoGo, JOBS Act, Kevin Tsujihara, kickstarter, Kristen Bell, movies, poster, producer, Rob Thomas, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, studios, theaters, Time Warner, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Veronica Mars, video, Warner Bros
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Can VCs and Crowdfunders Coexist?
At the SXSW festival, AOL founder and serial entreprenuer Steve Case says “yes.” There, he endorsed crowdfunding as a way for companies in regions of the US not well served by venture capitalists to find capital. This local validation will … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film, FINRA, Funding Portals, Investments, Jobs, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged AOL, capital, coexist, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, entrepreneur, film funding, finance, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, financing, FINRA, funding, issuer, JOBS Act, raise, sale, SEC, second round, securities, Securities and Exchange Commission, small business, Steve Case, TimeWarner, venture capital
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Will The Walking Dead Crowd Fund?
Will “zombie startups” try to access capital through crowdfunding? The Wall Street Journal defines these companies as consumer and e-commerce businesses that have just enough capital to keep the doors open for awhile, but they aren’t growing fast enough to … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, FINRA, Funding Portals, Investments, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Venture Capital, Wall Street
Tagged b2b, b2c, bankruptcy, benefit of creditors, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, dissolution, downround, e-commerce, equity, exitround, finance, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA, funding, intellectual property, internet, IP, IPO, JOBS Act, liquidation, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sherwood Partners, Silicon Valley, startup, venture capital, venture capitalists, zombie, zombie companies
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Getting Back to the Starting Gate
With the Senate Banking Committee overwhelmingly approving the President’s nomination of Mary Jo White to be the new Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission by a vote of 21-to-1, we may be one step closer to crowd funding regulations. … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film, FINRA, Funding Portals, Investments, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Wall Street
Tagged approval, attorney, Chairman, confirmation, Congress, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, enforcement, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA, JOBS Act, lawfirm, Mary Jo White, nomination, President Obama, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Senate, Senate Banking Committee, vote, Wall Street
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Making Crowd Funding Even Better
Rob Thomas, the creator of the now Kickstarter-crowdfunding- phenomenon, tells THR that the money was coming in so fast that he couldn’t use his iPhone and had to remove the Kickstarter app. In defense of major Hollywood studio Warner Bros., … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film, Funding Portals, Investments, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Wall Street
Tagged app, broadcast networks, Comic Con, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, CW, documentary, donations, film, film finance, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA, funding, Hollywood, indie film, indie filmmakers, IndieGoGo, indies, iPhone, JOBS Act, kickstarter, Kristen Bell, movies, NBC, networks, popular, Rob Thomas, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, studio film, successful, television, Veronica Mars, Warner Bros, Warner Brothers
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Was Coppola The First Crowd Sourcer?
Francis Ford Coppola, the director of “The Godfather,” may have been the first film maker to use crowd sourcing and social media (i.e., letters – the kind delivered by the U.S. Post Office) to encourage an audience for his film … Continue reading
Posted in Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, Film
Tagged and Matt Dillon, audience, author, correspondence, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, crowdsource crowdsourcing, Diane Lane, director, e-mail, Emilio Estevez, Facebook, film, film finance, film makers, Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gulf + Western, internet, JOBS Act, letters, Marlon Brando, MySpace, novel, Patrick Swayze, pre-internet, producer, Ralph Macchio, reading, Rob Lowe, school kids, social media, students, The Godfather, The Outsiders, Tom Cruise
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In The Best of All Possible Worlds
The Crowd Fund Act may be the best of all possible worlds for small but mature companies looking to raise cash but not wanting to be “public.” The Wall Street Journal reports today that in accordance with the JOBS Act, … Continue reading
Posted in Banking, Crowd Fund Act, Crowd Fund Act of 2012, Crowd Funding At the Margins, Crowd Funding Platforms, FINRA, Funding Portals, Investments, Legislative Intent, SEC, Small Business, Wall Street
Tagged 1, 10-K, 10-Q, 200, 8-K, bank holding companies, banks, crowd fund, Crowd Fund Act, crowdfunding, deregistration, FDIC, federally chartered, filing, financial burden, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, financial statements, FINRA, JOBS Act, OCC, over the counter, reporting, reports, SEC, securities, Securities and Exchange Commission, Securities Exchange Act of 1934, stockholders, stocks, trade
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ABA Weighs In on Crowdfunding
The American Bar Association’s Business Law Section, a group of influential securities attorneys, last week filed their (belated?) comments with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the Crowd Fund Act. Because many of these lawyers used to be on the … Continue reading →