socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2014

Glendale-based LegalZoom has officially dropped its IPO bid, saying in a regulatory filing that it has withdrawn its S-1 filing for an IPO, which had originally been filed in May of 2012. The filing was expected, after the announcement this week that it had sold $200M in equity to private equity firm Permira. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JULY 20, 2016

draws closer, more gene therapy players are entering the public markets. Gene therapy’s multi-decade roller-coaster ride has been well documented, in Xconomy and elsewhere. If approved by the FDA, it would become the first ever marketed gene therapy in the U.S. million in equity financing since its 2012 inception, and had $80.3

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi to introduce a new kind of structure called “ convertible equity.” My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Today you still need to be registered with the SEC as an “ accredited ” investor to legally buy any startup equity in the U.S. But these requirements may go away with the Crowdfunding JOBS Act passed into law back in 2012. Startups are private companies with no common document filing requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Today you still need to be registered with the SEC as an “ accredited ” investor to legally buy any startup equity. Today these are only legal in the USA for non-equity rewards or pre-orders, but the JOBS Act will relax the accredited investor rule by early 2013. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 9/21/2012.

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