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finance a la shmoop what is Regulation D well it's another diet regulation drink [Man holding Regulation D can]

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which gets companies selling stocks or bonds out of the small forest they have

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to kill to print all the paperwork required by the SEC in a full rollout [Paper printing]

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public offering Regulation D is sort of the special situation common in these

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letter regulations which in this case simply restricts the company issuing the

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securities to only sell to a qualified private investor set but what is

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qualified well it generally means that those private investors are already [Private investor man appears]

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wealthy net worth the you know in the millions of dollars may have continuing

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income well into the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars per

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year they're educated yes broadly defined and [Man with degree certificate and graduation cap]

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it doesn't just mean they've taken a fourteen dollars from of course and most

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importantly they will have signed a big boy or a big girl letter which states [A big boy/girl letter]

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that if this risky offering goes completely bust well then no tears or

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lawsuits in a reg D filing there is usually an allocation for sales beyond

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the above accredited private investors and some amount of the stock can be sold

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to non-accredited investors and in current reg deal and that number is

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limited to thirty five so why would the SEC allow a highly risky private

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investment be able to be made to a meaningful number of non-accredited

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investors like people who might not be millionaires they might be uneducated [Man emptying jean pockets]

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are you not taking the shmoop course or any others or unsophisticated in the

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wilds of the financial jungle well because in many early-stage startup [Lion attacks woman in jungle]

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companies the founders have a few dozen family members who are all anxious to [Girl biting nails]

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find the next Amazon and even though they are a plumber and a carpenter and a

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cook they have five grand of savings with which they want to buy a lottery

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ticket so the SEC makes accommodation for this investment in reg D and oh by

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the way this is actually what happened when Jeff Bezos founded and started [Jeff Bezos with colleagues]

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Amazon yeah family members bought in in yeah dreams really do come true

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