An article from the upcoming third volume of MJPVL has been submitted to the SEC as a comment to its proposed crowdfunding rules, specifically Title III of the JOBS Act. The article is entitled “From Revolutionary to Palace Guard: The Role and Requirements of Intermediaries Under Proposed Regulation Crowdfunding.” Take a look: http://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-09-13/s70913-204.htm
Year: 2014
American Technology Entrepreneurs Take on Skeptical Indian Investment Market
Ambitious American technology entrepreneurs have recently started to target the investment market in India.1 Historically, India had a reputation for being a notoriously tough market for start-ups, even for the most promising young businesses.2 The inability to succeed as a start-up in India, however, is not due to lack of proposed innovations. Compared to America’s…
What is Real Estate Private Equity?
Since the 2008 Economic Recession, many of the maxims that investors have lived by have been challenged and proven wrong. One of these, albeit hasty and uninformed, maxims—that real estate is a safe investment that will continuously appreciate in value over time—has been convincingly disproven to anyone who has paid attention to the volatility of…
VCs Think Spotify Streams Revenue
In the early years of the digital music industry, entrepreneurs were passionate about music but had no understanding of how the music business actually worked.1 The entrepreneurs were, nevertheless, easily able to raise funds from venture capitalists due to the dot-com bubble.2 However, after the dot-com bubble burst, it became very difficult to attract venture…
Volcker Rule Revised in Response to Concerns of Smaller Banks
On December 10, 2013, five agencies, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board (“Federal Reserve”), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), promulgated a 71-page Final Rule to implement the Volcker Rule…
Take a Second to Think About Secondaries
An interesting trend is developing in the private equity world: the rise of “secondaries.” The business model of private-equity companies “scouring obscure corners of the business world” for undervalued firms is becoming a thing of the past.1 Instead, the idea of purchasing companies owned by other private equity firms is slowly gathering momentum. This type…