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I recently listened to the TedX talk by Chinwe Onyeagoro of Fundwell called “I’m an Inefficient Market Entrepreneur.” The talk provided good insight into the small business financing market and its many inefficiencies. Ms. Onyeagoro provided some very interesting information about small business financing: 7 out of 10 small businesses are rejected for loans businesses with revenues [...]
Personal finance gurus shout about the latest stock picks on MSNBC. Radio shows like Marketplace Money repeat the mantra that you are an idiot if you don’t maximize your contribution to your 401(k). A recent book, “Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry,” by Helaine Olen, provides evidence that much of [...]
Cutting Edge Capital was selected by the American Farmland Trust and the Greenbelt Alliance to develop a scalable model for sustainable financing of agricultural businesses in the Bay Area. This important project will include a risk analysis and assessment of requirements for success across the entire sustainable agriculture value chain and will culminate with the [...]
Critics of the recent crowdfunding legislation have expressed dismay that we are deregulating an industry that is already rife with fraud and abuse. But before we decry deregulation, it is important to ask who exactly is being deregulated? Is it the giant global multinational financial players? Or is it small business that is already so [...]
A fund that invests in other businesses will generally be subject to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Being regulated as an investment company is extremely onerous and expensive – this is the law that regulates mutual funds. To avoid this, it is necessary to either qualify for an exemption from the Investment [...]
By Kristin York With great anticipation over the impending California cap and trade auction, the Cutting Edge Capital team participated in the Navigating the American Carbon World Conference held in San Francisco this past week. The conference is the annual meeting of the minds of carbon traders, regulators, policy makers, investors, and, of course, consultants [...]
Michael H. Shuman For nearly a century local investing has been essentially illegal, and Wall Street has controlled all the investment options for the average investor. Thanks to the JOBS Act that President Obama signed in the Rose Garden last week, local investing is now legal. Like all legislation, this bill is not perfect, but [...]
The program is essentially a set of regulations and market mechanisms designed to incent the state’s heaviest polluters to slash CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
I was with the Pacific Stock Exchange as a trader, regulator and General Counsel for 15 years, then assisted several national and international exchanges as clients of my law practice. More recently I was the General Counsel at the Boston Exchange and an EVP with NASDAQ. While working within the exchange industry, I realized that [...]
