PPM Drafting: Online Templates Could Be Missing Essential Clauses, Don’t Be Fooled

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by Erik Weingold
At PPM LAWYERS, the success of your start up company is our top priority. Online PPM templates, while easily accessible, may be missing essential clauses.

As an entrepreneur or owner of a start up business, you know the importance of balancing your goals with your budget. While it is smart to create a reasonable financial plan, there are some places where you just shouldn’t cut corners. Drafting your Private Placement Memorandum (or PPM) is an important aspect that requires the Read More

Start Up Investment: Then and Now

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by Erik Weingold
Over the years, start ups, investors, and solicitation of funds have changed dramatically. Options for businesses and investors have grown and expanded.

When we think of start ups, we often picture a tech company that built its brand online. Nevertheless, this common notion of a start up company has changed dramatically. Keep reading to learn the evolution of start ups and investment throughout time. Before The Dawn of the Internet The Great Depression of 1929 was a Read More

The Details of Crowdfunding and Regulation A+

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by Erik Weingold
Regulation A+ and crowdfunding solutions could make the world of business and consumerism a more interconnected place for everyone involved.

Access to reliable and efficient capital is a crucial factor in the growth of any small business. For many, the advent of equity crowdfunding has begun to provide workable solutions, under particular conditions, where small and medium sized businesses can gain more access to investor capital than ever before. Unfortunately, for almost the past century, Read More

Why Investing in Startups Just Got Easier for the Average American

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by Erik Weingold
Title III of the JOBS Act opens the door for non-accredited investors to participate in the rapidly growing field of equity crowdfunding.

A recent ruling by the United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission will change how everyday American citizens can invest their money. The SEC’s approval of Title III of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) opens the door for non-accredited investors to participate in the rapidly growing field of equity crowdfunding. That will mean Read More

Do You Need To File a Form D?

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by Erik Weingold
Some companies have been choosing not to file a Form D when financing, but that could lead to some serious issues in the future.

The most common avenue that non-public companies choose to take when financing their business is to conduct a private placement and rely upon one of the exemptions from SEC registration offered by Rule 506 of Regulation D.  Once the private placement offering is in place, Regulation D requires companies to file something known as a Read More

Why Every Business Using Crowdfunding Should Have a PPM

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by Erik Weingold
Crowdfunding entrepreneurs are consistently overlooking the value of PPM - an oversight that could prove to be disastrous.

Successfully raising capital from suitable investors requires careful planning, a selection of crucial documents, and a strategy aimed at convincing others of the value of your offering. Today, one of the most effective means of fundraising for any startup business or entrepreneur comes in the form of equity crowdfunding.  In fact, by the end of Read More

Regulation A+, the Holy Grail for Startups! Or, is it?

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by Erik Weingold
Get your business plan together, hire the right firm to prepare your PPM, and go out and do some accredited investor crowdfunding right now. Save Regulation A+ for when you’ve grown big enough to be able to afford it.

Regulation A+, the Holy Grail for Startups!   Or, is it? Over the past few months you may have heard some chatter about Regulation A+ and how it changes everything when it comes to crowdfunding for startups. Not surprising. In fact, Regulation A+ only went into effect just recently on June 19, 2015. If you Read More