What do you do when an important decision is looming? Signing a key vendor. Offering equity to an important employee. A significant hire. Adding or deleting a product or service. Or even bigger ones like selling the company or shutting down. Do you dwell on...
When looking at outlines of the interrelationship between various components of an entrepreneurial company's structure, what is at the center? Manufacturing? Finance? Investor relations? While all are important, I have found that for most growing companies, pretty much everything should flow from a central focus...
On the Friday before Memorial Day weekend, William Galvin, the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (pictured above), filed a petition in Washington DC against the SEC requesting that the court stop the implementation and enforcement of the SEC's changes to Regulation A. They are...
Our lives are busy. Work, work, work. And now a federally mandated long weekend to spend with family and friends. Play, play, barbecue, play. But I hope we will all take some time this weekend to remember the reason we take this extra time every...
Kudos to the House Financial Services Committee. This week they unanimously (read: strong bipartisan support) passed a bill allowing all SEC reporting companies to incorporate by reference into registration statements on Form S-1 filings made after the registration goes effective. This will dramatically reduce small...
The SEC released proposed rules required by the Dodd-Frank Act a few weeks ago. The proposal, if adopted, would require public companies to compare senior executives' compensation with the actual performance of the company, measured by a shareholder return metric. "Emerging growth companies" (EGCs) will...
Spring is in the air, and those of us in the tougher winter states could not be more happy. It is of course also the season of love, and it started me thinking about how much in common entrepreneurship has with your personal romantic relationships....
We are approaching the 40th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War back in 1975. As a teenager at the time (yes I'm that old), I transitioned from regular nightmares about getting drafted and wading through rice paddies to relief. But the Cold War,...
April 2012. That's when the Jumpstart our Business Startups (JOBS) Act was signed into law by Pres. Obama. The Act directed the SEC to make changes to Regulation A, as my faithful blogees should be well aware. In fairness, the Act did not give the...
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