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Reverse solicitations: Can I respond when someone solicits my solicitation? If someone publicly asks entrepreneurs to send them investment opportunities, […]

Do these rules apply to people raising investment funds, like venture capital funds? Yes, they absolutely do. The rules we

If you undertake general solicitation, you cannot rely on Rule 506(b) to give you an exemption from registration. It does

After financial regulators and potential investors, the third group of people that care are your own disgruntled investors. No startup

2. Informed investors. If you approach VentureSouth to ask for investment and we suspect you are generally soliciting investors, we

Assume you are raising money, not really paying attention to posts like those in this series, and you generally solicit

Is publicly saying “we are raising money” the same as publicly soliciting a sale of securities? Well, if you really

As we mentioned a couple of posts back in this series, using 506(c) involves substantial trade offs. For us, it

As we were writing these posts, “rolling funds” became a topic of conversation on “VC Twitter”. Ignoring the “rolling” part