There are some thoughtful comments -- from lawyers! -- on Fred Wilson's post of yesterday on the various sets of seed funding documents now available o (Read More)

So your venture needs capital, but for one good reason or another, or a combination of them, you are not going to "price" the company and rai (Read More)

What is the attack on Reg D? The attack on Reg D is contained in a bill proposed by Sen. Christopher Dodd that would do two things: (a) Senator Dodd's (Read More)

Suzanne Barlyn had a good follow-up article in the Wall Street Journal Online yesterday. In it, she makes the point that Sen. Dodd's proposed financial (Read More)

Some of us who have been worried about the threat to all-accredited investor offerings exempt under federal Reg D have been wondering why Senator Dodd' (Read More)

Even though I haven't written about them, there are other things in Senator Dodd's bill that I and other lawyers don't like. For instance, the bill wou (Read More)

Fred Wilson blogged this morning about the bad policy in Senator Dodd's financial system regulatory reform bill that would make it harder for startups (Read More)

The House Financial Services Committee announced today that it had approved a bill called the "The Financial Stability Improvement Act." This (Read More)

I've stayed out of the on-again, off-again debate about how Seattle entrepreneurs compare to their counterparts in Silicon Valley. I can't seem to wrap (Read More)

The Senate Banking Committee has had an initial hearing to consider Senator Dodd's “Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2009.” In (Read More)

Joe Wallin, Brian Myers and I have put up a petition concerning the threat to Reg D, an issue about which all three of us have written in recent days ( (Read More)

Under the Securities Act of 1933, any offer to sell securities must either be registered with the SEC or meet an exemption.  Regulation D contains (Read More)

What did we do before Google search? I'll come back to that question below. Let me first report on what's happened in the week since Joe Wallin discov (Read More)

In a comment today to my second post about not-so-goodies buried in the Dodd financial system reform bill, Joe Wallin points out that the Senator is al (Read More)

Another nugget in the "discussion draft" of the Dodd bill: raising the bar for the "accredited investor" standard, and thus shrinki (Read More)

Last week, I observed that a model first round stock purchase agreement would do more to serve the cause of efficiency in the startup community -- at l (Read More)

Earlier this week, TheFunded Founder Institute released a model term sheet intended for venture-oriented first round financings. In his post announcing (Read More)

In an earlier post this year about trends in first round financings, I asked the question, "Whatever Happened to the 1x Liquidation Preference?&qu (Read More)

Along with @sleepless, @timu_matt and @johnclyman, I attended the Naked Truth event at the Olympic Sculpture Park last night, sponsored by Redfin, (Read More)

Some “New Internet” entrepreneurs who don’t foresee needing a ton of capital are now organizing new ventures as limited liability com (Read More)

Depending on your point of view, angel investors are either getting more organized, or traditional VCs are moving upstream into angel territory.  (Read More)

One benefit of the economic depression, just starting to reveal itself, is that some startups are able to skip the early adopters and insinuate themsel (Read More)