Angels Fight Back

As an update to my last post about the Financial Reform Bill, the Angel Capital Association is now reporting that Senator Dodd will be introducing amendments addressing at least two of the three issues relating to early stage investors.
According to peHUB, after word of the original provisions leaked out, “vc bloggers took to their keyboard with furious [...]

Angels Under Fire

I don’t want to beat a dead horse on the Dodd Financial Reform Bill, but more and more disturbing details continue to emerge as people actually get through the 1,300 page piece of proposed legislation.  John Maudlin, writing in his Frontline Newsletter, points out three provisions that could spell the end of angel investing as [...]

Discouraging Entrepreneurial Risk

It is being reported that another bill has been introduced in Congress  that would require any venture capital fund with at least $30 million under management to register with the SEC.  There are a couple of reasons why I think this is a horrible idea. 
The first reason is purely practical.  Typically, venture funds, particularly smaller funds, [...]

Washington takes aim at Wall Street (Yikes)

There is a great op-ed by Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in today’s Wall Street Journal.  He talks about the danger of grouping the venture capital industry with the investment banking industry when it comes to federal regulation. 
I have long feared that the environment of finger pointing in Washington was going to [...]

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