Do you know any small businesses, startups or entrepreneurs that have been struggling to raise funds? If so, Adam Stelle, Chief Operating Officer of Startup Weekend, has a small favor to ask to create some positive change.
One of the primary purposes of the JOBS Act passed in April 2012 and signed into law was to help open new funding markets for small businesses (through crowdfunding, removing the ban on advertising fundraising and more). However, key pieces of the JOBS Act have stalled, and Eric Koester, one of Startup’s friends, Board members and advocates, is helping draw attention to the delay and shine a light on why it matters that we keep trying to move this forward.
To help out, Adam encourages readers of Maryland 3.0 to complete the survey as well as to share it with small business owners and entrepreneurs in your local communities. It just takes less than 5 minutes and the results will be used to highlight what *hasn’t* been happening with the JOBS Act, but could happen if these rules would be finally implemented.
Eric is working on a series of articles designed to show how small businesses would be helped — today — by getting these enacted. He wants to provide data on the real-world impact of this hold-up. Again, the hard part was supposed to be passing the JOBS Act, but nine months later the hard part is actually the SEC’s final say on the rules that is taking much longer than expected.
Take the survey here
If you have any questions, feel free to email Eric Koester at [email protected] or read his blog post about why he was inspired to try and push this forward.
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