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Four rules let an American company raise money from the public. Most founders find out which one they should have used somewhere around month three.
Tell us where your company stands and we will write you twelve pages on how those four fit a business like yours. No charge, and no obligation to anything.
Get the paper →Most founders pick a rule before they understand the choice
Usually because a portal explained the one it sells, or because somebody in the room had done it before and that was the one they had done. It is an expensive way to decide. The four rules differ on who may invest, how much you may raise, what you must publish, and whether you are permitted to advertise at all — and that last one quietly determines whether the raise you are imagining is even legal under the rule you picked.
None of this is hidden. It is just spread across a few hundred pages of regulation that nobody building a company has time to read.
The four doors
Your paper covers all four properly. Here is the shape of each.
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REG CF
Regulation Crowdfunding
Up to $5 million in twelve months, from almost any adult in America. You file a Form C with financial statements and raise through an SEC-registered portal. The lowest bar to get started, the most paperwork on public view, and the only rule where your own customers can become your shareholders a few hundred dollars at a time.
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REG A+
Regulation A+
Up to $75 million in twelve months, still open to almost anyone. You publish an offering circular the SEC reviews before you can take a dollar. Slower and more expensive to get moving, and built for a company that has outgrown Reg CF without being ready for a listing.
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506(b)
Regulation D 506(b)
No ceiling. Accredited investors, plus up to thirty-five sophisticated ones. You may not advertise it — and that single restriction decides everything else about how the raise runs. No public campaign, no marketing, nothing but the relationships you already have.
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506(c)
Regulation D 506(c)
No ceiling, and you may advertise as loudly as you like. The trade is that every investor must be accredited and you have to verify it rather than take their word for it. This is the rule most founders actually mean when they say they want to market the raise.
AND THE PART A SUMMARY CANNOT GIVE YOU
Which of them is genuinely open to your company as it stands today — with the revenue you actually have, the audience you actually have, and the appetite you actually have for putting your numbers in public. That is the half we write against your answers, and it is the half that changes what founders do next.
How it works
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Give us an email address
That is the whole ask. No form with fourteen fields, no call to book, no deck to upload.
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Answer a handful of short questions
They arrive by email within the day. What you make, roughly where your revenue sits, whether you have an audience of your own, and how quickly you need the capital. It takes a few minutes.
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Get twelve pages written against your answers
Not a template with your name dropped into it. Which rules are genuinely open to a company in your position, what each would demand of you in disclosure, time and cost, and the order most founders in your position should be thinking about them.
Get your paper
One address. The questions come back the same day, and the paper follows.
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Three things worth saying plainly
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The paper does not buy you coverage. Every founder who asks gets one. Who we write about is decided separately and never by who took a document from us.
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It is education, not advice on your offering. We explain how the four rules work and which tend to suit a company in your position. We are not a funding portal or a broker-dealer, we cannot raise money for you or introduce you to investors, and the decisions stay yours.
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