joewallin

Great comment. We will update the guide Grellas. Thank you!

We need to decriminalize almost everything. We have too many criminal laws. Too many laws.

This is insane. We need to end the drug war.

Congress should change the law so that the transfer of stock to workers is not taxed. I am not sure why pro-worker legislation like this wouldn't be supported.

If you generally solicit, under Section 201 of the JOBS Act, all of your investors have to be accredited.

If you don't generally solicit, theoretically, under Rule 506(b), you can have up to 35 non-accredited investors. BUT, if you even take one you have to provide IPO level disclosure. Ridiculously expensive. See this blog post: http://www.startuplawblog.com/2013/01/14/cant-i-let-non-accr...

short answer: no

This is a worthy donation!

The startup community needs to make its voice heard by commenting on these proposed rules...

I agree with you dfc. Not publishing opinions in this day and age is nuts. Everything should be published.

All these rulings should be public. The judge should have to sign their name to each one. The court should be an adversarial court like every other.

Modeless, you are right. This court should be subject to the full light of day and a true adversarial process. All opinions published. With judges having to put their names on the opinions and own up to them.

Publication of all pricing ought to be required.

Chris, you are exactly right. This court should be dissolved.

When you interpret law in an expansive manner, allowing the government to spy on people, you create law. It ought to be public. All of it.

This is a good argument to repeal most criminal law.

This is a completely ridiculous comparison the NY Times is making.

Police our out of control.

Flashy headline; but piece was just not substantively there....

exactly...whoever heard of startups paying dividends?!

This is a really good piece!

I like it.

helpful comment. thanks Gavin.

Shantaram

yeah...my hunch is that if you are going to invest money in a company, you don't want to waste your investment on a basket weaving business...you would pay someone to code something cool....

cperciva--we can disagree, and you can think that what the govt is doing or has done in the past is great...but it is not working. we need to try something different. as long as the money is used to employ people...why should the govt care? it will get its payroll tax dollars from your brother weaving baskets...