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by gbelote 4y ago
This is really cute. As a self-diagnosed crazy bird person, I appreciate seeing educational resources like this for folks interested in being bird owners.
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by gbelote 8y ago
Wefunder (W13) | https://wefunder.com/ | San Francisco ONSITE | Full-Stack Engineer About Wefunder: We do investment crowdfunding. We’re a Public Benefit Corporation (and certified B-Corp) with a mission of helping entrepre
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Wefunder (YC W13) Is Hiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer(wefunder.com)
1 points by gbelote 8y ago
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by gbelote 10y ago
Nope, you're not alone. I grew up in Upstate New York and I also enjoy precipitation, wintertime, and early evenings.
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by gbelote 11y ago
I disagree with the premise that the asset class as a whole is bad. At the seed stage you're looking at returns of 50-5000x if you "win" so there's more margin of error in the 1/10 statistic. To be clear: I think in
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by gbelote 11y ago
The JOBS Act _does_ cap the amount people can invest per year. It's 5% of your income or net worth across all platforms (whichever is greater). If you make more than $100k the limits are higher and more complex to compute. Platforms ar
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by gbelote 11y ago
> [...] you're missing an important fact: wealthy individuals have access to resources, like attorneys, accountants and financial advisers This is less of a concern when non-accredited investors are investing alongside accredited in
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by gbelote 11y ago
(Disclosure: I'm a founder of an equity crowdfunding platform so I financially benefit if people use this legislation.) I don't think startup investing is for everyone, for some of the reasons you mention below. And I agree there&
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by gbelote 11y ago
This is a really exciting development, and one that is quite overdue!
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Final Regulations for JOBS Act Crowdfunding [pdf](sec.gov)
1 points by gbelote 11y ago|0 comments
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by gbelote 11y ago
Looks like Title III of the JOBS Act will take effect in early May
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SEC Adopts Rules to Permit Crowdfunding(sec.gov)
21 points by gbelote 11y ago|1 comments
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SEC to Vote on the Final Part of JOBS Act on Friday(medium.com)
1 points by gbelote 11y ago|0 comments
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Lets Talk About Horses That Have a Horn Glued to Their Head(medium.com)
1 points by gbelote 11y ago|0 comments
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by gbelote 11y ago
+1. That's one of the things we hope to accomplish at Wefunder. The gap between public markets and private markets in terms of wealth creation and deal access is really big.
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by gbelote 11y ago
Congrats! The confetti on load is a nice touch :)
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by gbelote 11y ago
That certainly was part of the dotcom bubble, but not the cause of it. In addition to a very frothy public market there was an obscene amount of private money getting invested in companies with poor fundamentals. sama wrote a great article
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by gbelote 11y ago
It's going to be closer to filing a Form S-1 (like with an IPO) than submitting a url and such, unfortunately. And it's probably going to cost tens of thousands of dollars in lawyer/accountant time before you can even start w
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by gbelote 11y ago
I'm one of the founders of Wefunder. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the new regulations or equity crowdfunding in general!
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by gbelote 11y ago
Reg A+ (what was just voted on) is probably not going to be a good fit for you, since you're required to get approval from the SEC and need to periodically file audited financial statements. But the other part of the JOBS Act (commonly
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by gbelote 11y ago
It's great that the SEC is moving forward with implementing the JOBS Act, but sadly what the SEC voted on isn't a good fit for startups and small businesses. It's more of an "IPO-lite" and for the most part only mak
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Re: Reg A+. Startup investing for everyone isn’t quite there yet(wefunder.com)
6 points by gbelote 11y ago|1 comments
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by gbelote 12y ago
You should check out Assembly: https://assembly.com/
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by gbelote 12y ago
If quantum-entangled particles exist (they do) you can use them to coordinate in a way that's impossible within a "hidden variable" model of the universe. You can dig into this by searching for "bell's inequality&qu
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by gbelote 12y ago
That's totally fine. In fact, my GitHub account is in a similar boat: most of my work is in private repos.
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by gbelote 12y ago
To give you an embarrassing personal anecdote: In my first startup I wanted to do customer development. The lean startup was a fresh and growingly popular idea, and we devoted more time and energy talking to potential customers than turning
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by gbelote 12y ago
Awesome :) We found it through Homeaway. I didn't do the hunting or negotiation, but I believe the process was to first make a short list of awesome places on various vacation rental sites, then contact the owner and attempt to negotia
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by gbelote 12y ago
Don't be discouraged by that. :) We haven't gotten many applications yet and we don't care who you know, if you have a bunch of followers, or if you contribute to open source. (Personally I'm a bit bearish on GitHub as a
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by gbelote 12y ago
I'm always happy to help, thanks Jesse! :)
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by gbelote 12y ago
This is the fourth year of Startup Workaway. The first three were in Costa Rica, Thailand and Greece. It's a lot of fun and a great way to take a vacation without the "founder guilt" of not working. I'm happy to answer a

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