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Access To Capital Or Just More Blues? Issuer Decision-Making Post Sec Crowdfunding Regulation, Patricia Hureston Lee Jan 2016

Access To Capital Or Just More Blues? Issuer Decision-Making Post Sec Crowdfunding Regulation, Patricia Hureston Lee

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Crowdfunding is an alternative for Issuers seeking funds for their businesses. On October 2015, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) released final crowdfunding regulations that became effective May 20162 as a charge of the Jobs Act, Title III (the “Crowdfund Act”). Issuers can now secure crowdfunded investments without a securities registration.

This article evaluates investment-based crowdfunding from the perspective of one group that has been neglected from the crowdfunding scholarship — Issuers that seek financing under this new framework. In Section I, the author summarizes the new crowdfund regulations, which create a new financing opportunity vastly different from previous types of …