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Reed Hastings FB posting gets SEC upset
Cable Industry Payments to SOPA Sponsors
Re:Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA
on Monday December 26, 2011 @01:24AM (#3392356)
Agree that "the government is obscenely out of touch with its constituency." Also agree that it makes sense to stop going to them for help, and the influencing the influencers is prudent. But there is another lever: get rid of the government system that would be so easily influenced by money over and above policy. Turn 'em out. Withdraw consent of the governed.
Script to Remove "Promoted Tweets"
Crowdfunding Exemption | Crowdfunding Exemption Proposals
Crowding Out Venture with Crowdfunding?
Re:Well, here it is, a crowdfunding bill in Congress
on Thursday October 13, 2011 @02:22AM (#3106356)
Here's a list of bills that got through the subcommittee: seems to include expanding the 500 shareholder limit; getting rid of the general solicitation prohibition when investors are accredited; and more (in addition to the crowdfunding bill).
Re:Well, here it is, a crowdfunding bill in Congress
on Thursday October 13, 2011 @02:10AM (#3106323)
A bit surprising to me that a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee has approved this bill, but there's not much fuss over it that I can tell. Seems like it would make sense for entrepreneurs to leave comments on the site? Zero so far (are they screening them?), and the news has been up there almost a week.
Well, here it is, a crowdfunding bill in Congress
http://financialservices.house.gov/Blog/?postid=263518#.TpZ_8wXcFPM.hackernews
A bit surprising to me that a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee has approved this bill, but there's not much fuss over it that I can tell. Seems like it would make sense for entrepreneurs to leave comments on the site? Zero so far (are they screening them?), and the news has been up there almost a week.
#Occupy Securities Exemptions (Kickstarter & crowdfunding)
Re:Developer Turned Patent Lawyer's Rundown of the New Patent Reform Law
on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @12:29AM (#3016284)
That's a much better title for the post! And the developer-turned-patent-lawyer is Mason Boswell.
Jefferson Rolling Over in His Grave
Quora Pivot$
America's Own Tahrir Square-Style 'Facebook Revolution?'
Skype's Employee Stock Option Plan: Worthless Only if You Quit Before 2014?
Secondary Markets and Private Capital Formation Reform: A Distraction?
Redline showing precise key changes in Twitter API TOS
Twitter is no longer a social network
Deputizing Amazon: Gov't Policy at Cross Purposes or Crossroad?
http://www.wac6.com/wac6/2010/12/deputizing-entrenched-players-to-police-the-net.html
Amazon's commercial decision to pull the plug on Wikileaks may be a key piece in the puzzle of evolving gov't Internet policy.
Re:SEC looking again at rules for who qualifies to be an angel investor
on Thursday November 18, 2010 @09:43AM (#1917877)
live-blogging now on an SEC forum discussing the accredited investor definition, ie, who is allowed to be an angel in startup offerings http://goo.gl/fb/Y5nnE
SEC looking again at rules for who qualifies to be an angel investor
FCC Ponders Google/Verizon's Net Neutrality Carveouts
Re:AngelConf 2010 streams live on Justin.TV
on Monday August 02, 2010 @05:08PM (#1569087)
grellas what you relayed at your point 9 surprised me, too. Fyi, it has prompted a mini-colloquy on my blog as to what the Seattle community is / should be doing, in terms of pricing seed rounds or doing notes with caps. http://bit.ly/crkw9X