Recently the Advisory Committee on Smaller and Emerging Companies to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to recommend that the SEC extend its definition of an accredited investor.
The committee voted to expand the pool of investors eligible to invest in private placement investments, those not registered with the SEC. The main change was to include everybody who held the Series 7, 65 or 82 securities license exams or who had a chartered financial analyst or similar credential. A Law is Pending to Change the Definition...
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Our Co-Founder, Jor Law, will be speaking at Context Summits' Alternative Lending Summit 2016. This year the event will be held at the Monarch Beach Resort, in Dana Point, CA September 28th, 2016 for one day. The Summit will feature prominent topics from high-quality asset managers, allocators and service providers within the Alternative Lending space. The Summit will also bring together qualified Investors, accredited investors, asset managers, and key platforms that play a crucial role within Alternative Lending.
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If you own or manage a new and growing business, sometimes crowdfunding can be the way to take your enterprise to the next level. Crowdfunding taps into private investors who are willing to take a financial risk on your business idea. It is a remarkably savvy way to jumpstart the business itself or the next stage of your growth cycle.
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Some critics of the crowdfunding industry claim that crowdfunding facilitates and encourages fraud. Sure, there will be fraud in crowdfunding, but there’s no reason to believe that it will be any more or any worse than we find in other walks of life. As an example of the type of fraud that regularly happens outside of the crowdfunding space, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) recently sued some brokers for fraud as outlined in their press release on July 22, 2016, entitled "SEC Halts Ongoing Fraudulent Stock Scheme".
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VerifyInvestor.com will be a sponsor at the GCC 5th Annual Global Crowdfunding Convention in Las Vegas this year held October 15th-17th, 2016. Get 15% off the Main Convention & Expo Pass, and the VIP Ticket All Access Pass. Enter code VERIFY15
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With the recent passing of the JOBS Act’s Title III, small businesses are now eligible to solicit investment capital from crowdfunding platforms. The advent of websites such as Kickstarter and GoFundMe gave small businesses the opportunity to raise funds to invest in specific products, rewards, donations, or services, but this new regulation allows their investors to invest directly in the business.
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We will be at the premier ThinkRealty Global Conference in San Francisco this year. This event will take place over a packed 2 days from August 11th – 12th. The Think Realty Global Conference will offer you amazing opportunities to network with both Local and National Sponsors, as well as attend Educational Sessions from industry leaders in Residential, Commercial and EB-5 Foreign Investing. Along side hearing from our Co-Founder, Jor Law, and other industry leaders, the following Special Guest Speakers will be presenting:
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Put into regulation by way of the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), Regulation 506(d) was designed to prevent certain “bad actors”, and companies associated with them, from certain methods of raising capital, including various forms of crowdfunding.
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Our friends at Homeier & Law, P.C., will be speaking at the EB5 Investor Magazine's 2016 New York City EB-5 Convention this coming July 17th - 18th at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, and we invite you to attend the conference to meet us. EB5 Investor Magazine has offered the following discounts to H&L clients for tickets:
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