{"id":5796,"date":"2013-05-11T09:36:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T13:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2020-01-21T18:54:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T22:54:27","slug":"a-tale-of-how-successfully-raising-capital-leads-to-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/2013\/05\/11\/a-tale-of-how-successfully-raising-capital-leads-to-bankruptcy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of How Successfully Raising Capital Leads to Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the title of an article just published in The New York Law Journal (I\u2019m one of the authors).\u00a0 It\u2019s a cautionary tale about fundraising.\u00a0 It gives relevant details about the JOBS act and how that applies to fundraising \u2013 and it\u2019s not the panacea many are mistakenly making it out to be.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also about losing focus on the prize \u2013 moving your business forward \u2013 while distracted by the dazzle \u2013 the allure or promise of raising capital any way you can.\u00a0 The article details what\u2019s legal and not legal in the world of raising money for your company.\u00a0 I hope you use it as a guide to do your fundraising the correct way so you can avoid the fate and outcomes (jail time?) of this unfortunate company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/holtzmancom.com\/teamwork_latest_news.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/holtzmancom.com\/teamwork_latest_news.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong><em>Sandra Holtzman teaches\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitnyc.edu\/3064.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CEO 035: Licensing<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>She is the author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.holtzmancom.com\/thought_book_title.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lies Startups Tell Themselves to Avoid Marketing<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the title of an article just published in The New York Law Journal (I\u2019m one of the authors).\u00a0 It\u2019s a cautionary tale about fundraising.\u00a0 It gives relevant details about the JOBS act and how that applies to fundraising \u2013 and it\u2019s not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"post-templates\/post-middle-column.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8577],"tags":[8582,8576,12268,15521,38568,8660],"class_list":["post-5796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business","tag-business-tips","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-fundraising","tag-jobs-act","tag-small-business","tag-startups"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1v7EM-1vu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/hottopicsinsider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}