Lunching at my desk today, and needing a break from thinking, I was flipping through Fortune Magazine (March 15 issue) and came across a list of the 100 best places to work in the US. Putting aside both the source … Continue reading
Stephen Honig
Last week the SEC finally released definitive rules, under the 2010 Jobs Act, to permit Regulation A offerings of up to $50M by unregistered issuers, significantly advancing the scope of permitted offerings (now capped at $5M). The lesser disclosure requirements and … Continue reading
Mid-way through the National Association of Corporate Directors breakfast held in Newton this week, former Boston Police Chief Ed Davis, now a security consultant, held up a picture of someone with a long Russian name. “$3,000,000,” intoned Davis. “The FBI … Continue reading
Now I never post about the Patriots. I do not much like the Pats, though I root for them I confess. I do not much like football either; a brutal game embedded in the American ethos (and financial world) in … Continue reading
At the March 6th meeting of MassMEDIC, the association of the medical device industry, two expert panels discussed both the key attributes which an early stage company must have to attract financing, and the landscape for obtaining that financing. Requisite … Continue reading
Chris Coburn, who runs the Partners Healthcare Innovation Center, delivered what amounted to a sales pitch to emerging life science companies, urging them to work with the vast Partners system. Addressing a meeting of MassMEDIC, the association of the medical … Continue reading
What is the pedestrian supposed to do when the entrance to that pedestrian’s office building is festooned with signs that say “Beware of Falling Ice”? Speaking of our snow here in Boston: if you save the parking space you dug … Continue reading
Corporate directors generally are aware of the fact that they are protected by the so-called “business judgment rule”: if a director of reasonable intelligence applies reasonable diligence and doesn’t make a personal profit out of any decisions, then courts … Continue reading
The so-called SDX Protocol, a roadmap prepared by directors, advisors and institutional investors to establish a play book for interaction between the investment community and independent corporate directors, was analyzed at the January 13 meeting of the National Association of … Continue reading
Did you ever get a thirst for an adult beverage during a snow storm, only to find your larder bare? Along comes Drizly, an application that can get your alcohol delivered to you, at least if you are in a … Continue reading