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Crypto Monitor Episode 7: What Does Good Regulation Look Like?
One of the biggest things preventing institutional investors from entering the crypto market is regulations. They’re itching to get in, though. This week, we found out the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange is planning on building a bitcoin trading platform for big investors. Goldman Sachs is also in the process of building a crypto trading desk.…
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News Regarding Exchanges
Dear First Stage Investor, Cryptocurrency exchanges are exploding. During the second half of 2017, nearly every major exchange experienced a record number of new user sign-ups. The result? Growing pains. Several exchanges have experienced temporary outages or even crashes during periods of high volume. With surging cryptocurrency prices, tens of millions of new entrants are flooding the market each day.…
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News Regarding Exchanges
Cryptocurrency exchanges are exploding. During the second half of 2017, nearly every major exchange experienced a record number of new user sign-ups. The result? Growing pains. Several exchanges have experienced temporary outages or even crashes during periods of high volume. With surging cryptocurrency prices, tens of millions of new entrants are flooding the market each day. The exchanges are facing…
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Episode 5: Greg Cangialosi
Greg Cangialosi, after selling his e-mail marketing firm Blue Sky Factory, co-founded Betamore to create a new hub for startup companies in Baltimore and also co-founded the Baltimore Angel Investment Group. Now, as CEO of Mission Tix, he is in the process of rebooting the 13-year-old ticket selling platform.
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Venture Capital Is Facing Real Competition at Last
On Monday, the SEC’s new startup investing rules went into effect. Startups can now raise $5 million annually through equity crowdfunding. That’s a 5x increase from the previous limit. I really can’t overstate how important this change is. It’s a monumental moment for startups — and everyday investors like you and me. Suddenly, equity crowdfunding is a viable funding option…
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Startup Investing Just Got 5x Better
Something monumental happened for startup investors this week. The SEC increased the limit for public startup fundraising rounds from $1.07 million to $5 million (per year, per company). This is a very big deal. Startups can now raise almost five times what they previously could using “Regulation Crowdfunding” (aka Reg CF, equity crowdfunding, or just startup investing). This new limit…
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Republic CEO on Four Years of Equity Crowdfunding
Note: Equity crowdfunding and Republic both turned four this year! To mark the occasion, our friends at KingsCrowd reached out to Republic CEO and co-founder Kendrick Nguyen to hear his thoughts on the future of startup investing. We wanted to share their piece with you today. If you want the chance to ask Kendrick questions yourself, there’s still time to…
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Grading the SEC’s Proposed Crowdfunding Changes
The SEC is about to make a series of modifications to equity crowdfunding regulations. These updates come a little more than four years after it first enabled regular investors like you and me to crowdfund startups. Back then, the SEC was mostly concerned with protecting investors. But the limits, restrictions and procedural requirements designed to protect investors had the unintended…
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Accredited Investors Have the Advantage — For Now
Today in America, accredited investors still have a major advantage over non-accredited investors (approximately 92% of America). We can invest in all private startup and company deals, including those on sites like AngelList. These Regulation D deals have no limit on the amount of money the company can raise. And these companies only have to file limited paperwork with the…
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Republic Explains the SEC’s Proposed Crowdfunding Changes and SAFEs
Earlier this month, the SEC proposed long-awaited rule changes to Regulation CF. Reg CF (the CF stands for crowdfunding) governs how everyday investors can invest in startups – and how startups raise money through certain SEC-registered investment platforms. The industry has been asking the SEC to make some of these changes for years. And these changes have the potential to…
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2020 Will See a Surge of Accredited Investors
“Big Brother” seems to follow me wherever I go. Even when I go halfway around the world. In the 1990s, I ventured off to Southeast Asia to run a trading company. And there was an unapologetic paternalism among the wealthy and highly educated. While most Asian countries held elections, the majority of them were limited, highly stage-managed and often fixed.…
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First Stage Investor – Issue No. 7
div.entry-content-asset iframe {display: block !important; width: 750px !important; height: 422px !important; margin-bottom: 20px !important; } Online Startup Investing: A Year in Review By Adam Sharp, Founder, First Stage Investor 2016 was the year that startup investing entered the mainstream. For the first time in 80-plus years, U.S. investors can now invest in private, early-stage companies. There is no other investment…
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First Stage Investor – Issue No. 1
Four Steps to Become a Successful Private Investor Today By Adam Sharp, Co-Founder, First Stage Investor Dear Member, Welcome! And thank you for joining First Stage Investor. As promised, I have three recommendations in this issue that I can’t wait to tell you about. But before I do, I want to take the time to help familiarize you with this…
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The Best Places to Invest Online: Portals to Find High-Quality Equity Crowdfunding Deals
Investing in private companies online is a brand new experience for most investors. Luckily, my co-founder, Andy Gordon, and I have been doing this for a while. And we know the established players in the space. For now, we’re going to highlight the top three equity crowdfunding “portals” where you can find and make investments. These portals are sites where…
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The Best Places to Invest Online: Portals to Find High-Quality Equity Crowdfunding Deals
.main article time{display:none;} Investing in private companies online is a brand new experience for most investors. Luckily, my co-founder, Andy Gordon, and I have been doing this for a while. And we know the established players in the space. For now, we’re going to highlight the top three equity crowdfunding “portals” where you can find and make investments. These portals…
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Fancy Chairs Can Explain Crypto
I spend several hours every day consuming crypto data and information. Only a fraction of that time is spent looking at prices though. I’m much more interested in bigger picture items like use cases, regulatory frameworks, inflation, monetary policy and other macro issues. As I was reading up on Ripple’s partial victory over the SEC, I found a thread on…