The future of crowdfunding is now in the hands of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When Congress passed the law making it legal to sell small stakes in private companies to the general public online, lawmakers left it up to regulators to determine the mechanics of how such transactions will actually work.
In the crowdfunding portion of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, there are 22 places for the SEC to make rules, Karen Kerrigan, president of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, said Thursday at the first Crowdfunding Conference in New York. That’s just one section of the law. The agency, which raised concerns about aspects of the statute as it was debated, has 270 days from its April 5 enactment to make rules. That means they should be in place by Jan. 1, 2013. The SEC started taking public comments last week.
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