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Intrastate Crowdfunding: Why the Red Tape? You Gotta be Able to Kick the Tires

Benji Jones is an attorney and partner at Smith Anderson in Raleigh. For young and growing companies, she handles public equity and debt offerings, corporate formation and governance, early stage financing and mergers and acquisitions. She graduated from Columbia University Law School and has a background in writing—she was on staff at the Columbia Law Review. I recently received an email from a reader (quite legitimately) lamenting the delay by the NC Senate in adopting the NC JOBS Act (although we are getting closer! And here’s ExitEvent’s update on the bill ) and the massive amount of red tape...

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WATCH: The Ferny Future of Fertilizer, Food & Fuel

I’m not a biology person, but I’m fascinated by this video and the Duke University science experiment starring in it. Turns out that the tiny aquatic fern called Azolla that millions of years ago helped cool the Earth so we could inhabit it has the potential of transforming the way we fertilize and grow food and fuel our homes, devices, businesses and vehicles. Scientists say Azolla holds the world record for speed of biomass production, meaning it can help grow plants or produce fuel in a cheaper, faster and more environmentally friendly way than any other method used today....

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What Do Intrastate Crowdfunding and Peep Shows Have in Common?

Benji Jones is an attorney and partner at Smith Anderson in Raleigh. For young and growing companies, she handles public equity and debt offerings, corporate formation and governance, early stage financing and mergers and acquisitions. She graduated from Columbia University Law School and has a background in writing—she was on staff at the Columbia Law Review. This phrase has stayed with me since first semester of Con Law—the classic expression of subjectivity. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart refused to identify a set of rules or a test that would define materials as “obscene” under the First Amendment; instead,...

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It's Tough To Be an Angel (Investor)

So let’s put this into a little bit of context. The Angel community has a reputation here (and everywhere, for that matter, but more so here) of being less than active at the seed stage. I’ve never truly been on board with this. Up until very recently, the Triangle didn’t have the froth that would suggest that investors should be throwing money at any fresh-faced kid with an app idea. We’re older, we’re more steadfast, we’re pretty much customer-first, and we’re somewhat connected. In other words, the entrepreneurs here who needed that kind of seed money were usually the...

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