{"id":878,"date":"2013-08-22T16:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=878"},"modified":"2013-08-22T16:16:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T23:16:55","slug":"business-crowdfunders-face-investor-liability-minefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Business Crowdfunders Face Investor Liability Minefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur.com recently published a post on use of crowdfunding by businesses, which is a topic that&#8217;s really been underreported.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, if a business, whether startup or ongoing, wanted to attract investor capital, it had to comply with Securities and Exchange investor qualification regulations which are rather cumbersome, to say the least,<\/p>\n<p>When crowdfunding happened on the scene, we, among others, opined that it was a great idea, and the SEC was slow the react.<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s there now, with Rule 506(c), which gives some guidance for investor accreditation. And, it could probably be said that anyone wanting to use crowdfunding for business purposes should probably consult a lawyer. However, it&#8217;s hard to find a secuities lawyer who knows what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than repeat all the Entrepreneur.com article, here&#8217;s the link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/2277764\">http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/2277764<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur.com recently published a post on use of crowdfunding by businesses, which is a topic that&#8217;s really been underreported. Traditionally, if a business, whether startup or ongoing, wanted to attract investor capital, it had to comply with Securities and Exchange &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=878\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[218,173,745,613],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}