Cover Story WSJ - April 8, 2011
It has been just over 1 month since we launched this initiative and today we take heart in the fact that the SEC is listening to our concerns. Without directly mentioning our names, Startup Exemption was part of today’s (April 8, 2011) Wall Street Journal cover story: U.S. Eyes New Stock Rules – Regulators Move Toward Relaxing Limits on Shareholders in Private Companies (http://on.wsj.com/eBJC52 – subscription required)
On March 22nd a Congressman we have been working with sent a letter to the SEC asking them to explain if there is a correlation between the decrease in capital formation in the U.S. since 1996 and antiquated U.S. Regulations. In that letter we contributed six questions that asked the SEC to respond to our crowd fund investing solution that could immediately get capital flowing to entrepreneurs but is hindered by regulation.
In particular we asked: Continue reading
