NowStreet Events
Stay tuned for our upcoming schedule of next-generation industry events that help both the financial and business communities capitalize during this ground-breaking period of mass media and regulatory reform.
Since the burst of the dotcom bubble, both small companies and investors have been unable to prosper in a public marketplace that panders to large caps and traders. For far too long our capital markets have been monopolized by PIPE funds, program traders and a handful of supersized investment banking and institutional firms at the expense of our small businesses. As a result, our capital markets, once the envy of the world, have regrettably become an impediment to job creation and economic growth. Without the ability to successfully IPO as a small cap stock, investors have less access to quality growth companies and fewer opportunities for impressive appreciation, while emerging companies are left with limited appealing options for raising growth capital.
NowStreet Events are part of an overall effort to repair a damaged capital markets system with the inclusion of a marketplace that encourages growth not speculation, thus attracting shareholders not traders. During the past two years, we have been observing the rapid evolution of such a market, the Private Company Marketplace (PCM), where our fastest growing private companies are now being exchanged. Coinciding has been the mass materialization of crowdfunding platforms aimed at helping small businesses obtain necessary growth capital from benevolent funders who possess similar interests and ideologies.
By providing fairer and more liquid markets for emerging private companies to thrive, the private markets have become an integral part of the capital formation process. With mounting national debt and unemployment close to 10%, it is of the utmost importance that we encourage more efficient ways of creating capital so that our emerging companies can do what they have always done best: innovate, expand, compete effectively in a global economy and most importantly, create jobs.
In this remarkable moment in history, the U.S. regulatory environment, its capital markets and the innovation that drives those markets are simultaneously on the threshold of dramatic change. We are currently witnessing the embryonic period of this cutting-edge stock market just as we usher in a new era of mass media. At the same time, new legislation, aimed at facilitating capital formation, has just been signed into law to support this modern infrastructure. The passage of the “Jumpstart our Business Start-ups Act” (JOBS Act) amends antiquated regulation that has stymied capital formation, and finally brings our capital markets into the 21st century. It opens new doors to capital for small businesses and provides an abundance of new growth opportunities for ALL investors – not just the privileged few.
While the democratization of our capital markets is an enormous feat that should be celebrated, now more than ever we need to come together and help frame the infrastructure of the private markets and implement best practices.
NowStreet events are about understanding just how this legislation will transform the capital markets and create new opportunities for both entrepreneurs and investors alike. Topics covered at NowStreet Events include:
- How to successfully crowdfund in the current environment;
- How equity-based crowdfunding will revolutionize the marketplace;
- Working with the SEC & the SEC’s time frame for implementing the new rules;
- Understanding the difference between crowdfund investing and typical micro-cap investing;
- How to use social media and other advances in communications to provide greater transparency;
- How to enhance small business capital formation without compromising investor protections;
- The developing industry organizations;
- The handling of settlement & clearing;
- How the reformation of capital will impact Wall Street, job creation and economic growth.
Whether you are an innovator, financier, lawmaker, banker, broker, analyst, journalist, CPA, attorney or simply a consumer, we thank each and every one of you for your important contribution to the economic process. Together we can repair the capital markets and ensure economic prosperity for future generations.
