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The Pros and Cons of Rando Rich People Investing in Your Startup

This is going to be BIG.

These are people that didn’t make their money through a tech startup or startup investing. Some of these folks are founders and CEOs, but not at high-growth tech startups. They might not understand how a pre-revenue startup could be worth anything, let alone be valued at $5mm. Perhaps they inherited it.

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RegulatoryKings: Thoughts on the Duel Between Government and Fans

This is going to be BIG.

If you want to track the influence of gambling, you make it as legal as possible, but you make it a requirement for everyone who takes a bet to know their customer, just like in banking and securities. Legality puts a spotlight in dark corners. Plus, protecting people from themselves can have unintended consequences.

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Regulators Demanding More Disclosure From Private Equity and Hedge Funds

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But in a partial victory for fund groups which opposed the rules, the Securities and Exchange Commission did not proceed with proposals that would have expanded funds' legal liability and outright banned arrangements that allow some investors special terms. In fact, there is already legal pushback from the industry.

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Transcript: Eva Shang, CEO, Legalist

The Big Picture

Really a, a fascinating combination of legal insight and technology. So we got into Y Combinator the summer of 2016 just off of this legal analytics idea. Okay, I don’t think this legal analytics thing is gonna work out for you. He sounds more like a, a computer science geek than a a, a legal geek.

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