Thursday, January 3, 2013 Dear Readers, Thanks to all of you entrepreneurs, visionaries, financiers, bankers, legislators, tax, legal and regulatory experts who came together this past year to institute colossal Wall Street reform. When historians look back on the 2012, it will be recognized as the year that not only laid the foundation for the […]
Today’s America – Nothing Ventured, Everything Gained – at Least for Some
Dear Fellow Americans, I am writing this letter not only as an unrelenting advocate for Wall Street reform, but more poignantly as a concerned citizen and a devoted mother of two young children. Like me, my parents before me and my grandparents before them, I want to see my children grow up in a prospering […]
Summation of the SEC’s Uneventful Meeting on the Elimination of the General Solicitation and Advertising Ban
Don’t stop the press. Really, don’t. The SEC’s previously postponed meeting to implement the overdue rule eliminating the prohibition against general solicitation and general advertising finally occurred yesterday, resulting in yet another delay tactic – “the rule proposal”. By the time this rule is finalized it will be so far into the future that companies […]
Crowdfund This! – My Interview with Capitalist Exploits
Below is an excerpt of an interview that I recently gave to Mark Wallace of Capitalist Exploits, a community of globe-trotting capitalists who seek unique and profitable investment opportunities in exotic and frontier markets, typically in the private equity space. For a fresh perspective on how the JOBS Act, specifically Crowdfunding, will play an integral […]
Recap of CFIRA’s Historic “Development of Crowdfunding Regulations Symposium”
On Friday July 13, 2012, CFIRA, the leading regulatory advocacy group for the crowdfunding industry, hosted its first public forum wherein the nation’s key lawmakers, regulators, crowdfunding enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and investors all came together to discuss the rules that will eventually govern Crowdfund investing under the JOBS Act. Exemplifying the same collaborative principles that define the […]