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Re:Invest in Startups by npt4279 on Monday September 23, 2013 @02:23PM (#6433072)
Thankfully, this will be legal in mid-2014, when the SEC finishes implementing the JOBS Act.

In the 1930's - pre-Internet - people were more easily scammed by traveling salesmen selling oil wells and such.

We have a lot more information at our fingertips these days.

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Re:Invest in Startups by jbooth on Monday September 23, 2013 @02:42PM (#6433258)
We have a lot more information at our fingertips these days, and 25% of the country is convinced that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

I feel like we're just running the cycle on this one, someone should put up a countdown to the next Enron and these investments being made illegal again.

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Re:Invest in Startups by tlrobinson on Monday September 23, 2013 @11:26PM (#6435759)
To be fair, people are still easily scammed on the Internet. See: Bitcoin stock exchanges.
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