CrowdCheck Blog

So May 2 marked the due date for most companies in the crowdfunding world to file their annual reports on Form 1-K or C-AR. And many companies didn’t. Do I need to remind you that in order to make an offering under either Reg A or Reg CF, if you have made offerings under that exemption before, you have to have made ALL ongoing reports required by the exemption in the previous two years before relying on that exemption again? Apparently I do. Now for some companies, it’s possible to get back…

Startup investors all hope for a great “exit.” Most startups, of course, will never get to that point, but for the successful ones, the principal ways that investors get repaid for their faith in a high-growth early stage company is an eventual IPO, hopefully at a price much higher than the price they paid, or through the acquisition of the startup by another company. It can take a very, very long time for a startup to get to the point of an IPO. We aren’t aware of a company crowdfunded under…

Startup investors all hope for a great “exit.” Most startups, of course, will never get to that point, but for the successful ones, the principal ways that investors get repaid for their faith in a high-growth early stage company is an eventual IPO, hopefully at a price much higher than the price they paid, or through the acquisition of the startup by another company. It can take a very, very long time for a startup to get to the point of an IPO. We aren’t aware of a company crowdfunded under…

Startup investors all hope for a great “exit.” Most startups, of course, will never get to that point, but for the successful ones, the principal ways that investors get repaid for their faith in a high-growth early stage company is an eventual IPO, hopefully at a price much higher than the price they paid, or through the acquisition of the startup by another company. It can take a very, very long time for a startup to get to the point of an IPO. We aren’t aware of a company crowdfunded under…

Startup investors all hope for a great “exit.” Most startups, of course, will never get to that point, but for the successful ones, the principal ways that investors get repaid for their faith in a high-growth early stage company is an eventual IPO, hopefully at a price much higher than the price they paid, or through the acquisition of the startup by another company. It can take a very, very long time for a startup to get to the point of an IPO. We aren’t aware of a company crowdfunded under…

Startup investors all hope for a great “exit.” Most startups, of course, will never get to that point, but for the successful ones, the principal ways that investors get repaid for their faith in a high-growth early stage company is an eventual IPO, hopefully at a price much higher than the price they paid, or through the acquisition of the startup by another company. It can take a very, very long time for a startup to get to the point of an IPO. We aren’t aware of a company crowdfunded under…

Startup investors all hope for a great “exit.” Most startups, of course, will never get to that point, but for the successful ones, the principal ways that investors get repaid for their faith in a high-growth early stage company is an eventual IPO, hopefully at a price much higher than the price they paid, or through the acquisition of the startup by another company. It can take a very, very long time for a startup to get to the point of an IPO. We aren’t aware of a company crowdfunded under…

Startup investors all hope for a great “exit.” Most startups, of course, will never get to that point, but for the successful ones, the principal ways that investors get repaid for their faith in a high-growth early stage company is an eventual IPO, hopefully at a price much higher than the price they paid, or through the acquisition of the startup by another company. It can take a very, very long time for a startup to get to the point of an IPO. We aren’t aware of a company crowdfunded under…

A while back, one of our favorite start-up clients called me and asked me to speak to a potential investor. Paul Efron, a resident of Arizona, wanted to invest in the company's Regulation A offering. However, when he went onto the company’s website to invest, his subscription was rejected. The company was accepting subscriptions from investors in every state but Arizona and Nebraska. Why Arizona and Nebraska, asked Paul? The reason was that while federal law and most states’ laws say that a…

A while back, one of our favorite start-up clients called me and asked me to speak to a potential investor. Paul Efron, a resident of Arizona, wanted to invest in the company's Regulation A offering. However, when he went onto the company’s website to invest, his subscription was rejected. The company was accepting subscriptions from investors in every state but Arizona and Nebraska. Why Arizona and Nebraska, asked Paul? The reason was that while federal law and most states’ laws say that a…