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How To Negotiate Salary with Your Employer

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Your salary is one of the biggest contributing factors to your ability to grow wealth. It’s also an important factor should you seek an accredited investor certificate through the income method.

Your best chance to increase your base salary is when first negotiating with your employer. Take this opportunity to tout your accomplishments, research salaries for comparable roles, and not settle for less than you’re worth.

Here are a few strategies you can use to negotiate salary with your employer and increase your income.

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What To Know About NFT Theft & Plagiarism

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NFTs have become extremely popular, both as investment vehicles and novelties. While their existence has led to a new realm of assets, it has also opened the door for those assets to be stolen and plagiarized. As with anything high-profile and hosted on the blockchain, NFTs are particularly prone to theft and plagiarism.

This may very well be an asset class you and other verified accredited investors are interested in participating in, so it’s essential to understand the potential risks.

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VerifyInvestor.com Custom Verifications

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VerifyInvestor.com is proud to offer Custom Verifications. Easily create Custom Verifications with our online wizard and verify anyone or anything the way you want.

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A Modern Day Work Week

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The Covid-19 Pandemic changed the way people work significantly by forcing many individuals to work from home. Only essential workers were permitted to work publicly and millions of people lost their jobs completely. Now that cases have gone down due to vaccines and better practices, many employers are having workers return to the office. However, many workers are still demanding flexibility and the new way of working has opened up the debate about whether the traditional “five-day 8 hours a day work week” makes sense anymore.

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The Role & Benefits of General Solicitation

Mihir Gandhi

The lifting of the ban on general advertising and solicitation on capital raises by private companies has provided small and private companies in the U.S. with a number of new opportunities. Accredited investors are now able to purchase securities from startups and small businesses, giving these companies the financial resources they need to succeed in their industry. If you're looking to obtain funding and wish to verify the status of an investor, or are interested in accrediting yourself, consulting a qualified third-party reviewer will provide the validation you need quickly, affordably, and safely.

FREEDOM TO ADVERTISE PUBLICLY
On September 23, 2013, Title II of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) became effective and removed the decades old ban on general solicitation for private capital raises. Before the JOBS Act was signed into law by President Obama, private companies were prohibited from advertising their need for investment capital publicly. The enactment of this law has given startups and small businesses the capability to openly advertise to investors, allowing them to garner the investment capital they require to advance the growth of their companies. Under these regulations, small companies are able to market securities to accredited investors while still qualifying their capital raises as private offerings which would not need to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

ADVANTAGES FOR ISSUERS & PURCHASERS
Prior to the passing of these new laws, it was essential for small companies to have close, personal ties with investors in order to obtain funding. Title II of the JOBS Act gives private, growing organizations with the opportunity to utilize public avenues of marketing for fundraising purposes, such as online equity crowdfunding sites, print media, social media, and more. On the flip side, accredited investors also benefit from the implementation of Title II of the JOBS Act. Because startups and small businesses are no longer restricted from advertising publicly, plenty of new investment opportunities are continuously emerging. With this freedom of information, an industry that was previously controlled by gatekeepers is now open as fair game for everyone.

IMPORTANCE OF VALIDATION
Obtaining funding through general solicitation requires that an issuer acquire certain information regarding a potential investor's status. Before securities are sold, issuers must first take "reasonable steps" to verify that their investors are “accredited investors”. Relying on an investor questionnaire or subscription agreement whereby the investor essentially self-certifies was how companies used to confirm that their investors were qualified, but that method is no longer legally compliant for generally solicited capital raises. The SEC requires that an issuer take “reasonable steps” and has given some guidance on what would constituted approved methods of verification by companies of investors. Failing to obtain valid verification can result in disastrous penalties that could financially destroy companies and cause the investors that invested in that company to lose their investment.

To verify the accredited investor status of yourself or a potential investor, rely on the legally compliant verifications that VerifyInvestor.com provides.

Updated on 12/14/2021

The act of general solicitation seems innocent enough, however, as we can see its use in private equity is heavily regulated to ensure the safety of investors and issuers alike. The investor criteria involved in the accredited investor verification is aimed to ensure only those who are financially able to take on the risk of private investments should invest.

Knowing the ins and outs of the Jumpstart Our Business Act and Rule 506(c) of Regulation D can be a cumbersome task, so it is important to have a general counsel to guide your potential fund. To ease the stress of staging compliance it is also recommended that the review of accredited investor status be done by a third party which ensures non-bias. If it is possible to use this type of exemption through the JOBS Act, there is room for a large amount of opportunity to raise funds. Just look at the SEC public filings for Rule 506(c). On a daily basis, dozens of companies are filing to raise millions of dollars.

We continue to recommend our services for accredited investor verifications. Not because VerifyInvestor.com is the only company that provides these reviews, but because we feel our dedicated team and support staff are essential to a successful Rule 506(c) raise.

JOBS Act: Title II & How It Applies to Issuers & Investors

Zach Kelly

Are you looking to verify yourself or a potential purchaser as an accredited investor? Under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act), which was signed into law on April 5, 2012 by President Obama, businesses can advertise and sell securities, so long as the eventual sales are made only to accredited investors that are verified using “reasonable steps.” Third-party reviewers conduct verification for issuers and purchasers, ensuring that companies and investors take reasonable steps to obtain validation.

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Everything You Need To Know About Reg D

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Check out "Everything You Need To Know About Reg D", Chapter 15 in The Digital Asset Handbook: Clear Rating Practitioner's Handbook - 1st Edition (2021), now available from ClearRating.com and Entoro.com

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How the Biggest Banks Sometimes Get Away with Fraud

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It may not be great to think about, but sometimes the institutions that we trust with our money commit fraud. Not all banks are bad, however, there have been instances where a bank has committed fraud through deceptive practices. The following examples should be used as a warning to consumers, and as illustrations of what not to do for businesses.

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Customer Service is Not Dead!

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Great customer service is often the key to making or breaking a business. While failure to provide a high standard of service will sometimes result in a business failing. providing a high standard of service can often propel a business to a high market dominance among its competitors. Recognizing this, we at VerifyInvestor.com pride ourselves on our great customer service and want to share with you three keys to focus on for success, and three things to avoid when it comes to how you treat each and every one of your clients.

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Millennial Money

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Millennials have gotten a bad reputation regarding finance and their ability to save for a rainy day or retirement. However, a new “Relationship With Money” survey by financial services firm Edward Jones found that not only do more Americans born between 1981 and 1996 consider themselves “savers” than those in their parents’ Gen-X cohort (48 percent vs. 46 percent) but they also found that Millennials were better at socking away emergency funds (75 percent vs. 66 percent). “This debunks the myth that Millennials aren’t as financially focused as other generations,” says Edward Jones investment strategist Nela Richardson. This survey is not an outlier observation. It is supported by other research. The Federal Reserve Survey on Consumer Finances found that while Millennials are deep in debt, more than 42 percent have retirement accounts, the highest share for those under 35 years of age since 2001.

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