Why Occupy Wall Street Matters to the Street
“How do these companies get the word out and raise capital? The trend is to go to conferences like this, make your presentations and follow up on the conferences. This is what is working today.”
-- Gary E. Bryant, Legendary Financier and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, October 5th, 2011 at the West Coast Wall Street Conference
By Guest Editorial by Patrick A. Howell, Founder of the West Coast Wall Street Conference and Beverly Hills Investment Club | November 23, 2011
Steve Kerr (Executive Director of the Southwest Investment Association), Gary E. Bryant, JD Kerr (President of the Southwest Investment Association), Alan Stone and Patrick A. Howell.
As a tenured banker and business leader, I believe there is an ‘excellent’ Wall Street. Excellent Wall Street consists of capital market formation, the micro-cap sector, entrepreneurs and small businesses which make up 60-70% of all American job creation. Excellent Wall Street has served as the fertilizing grounds for behemoths and paradigms of 20th and 21st Century Capitalism (companies with market caps over $300 million) such as Google, Apple Computers, Herbalife, Facebook or Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream.
It is the place for market winners such as Zagg, Magnum Hunter Resources and future stars as Sutter Gold Mines, T3 Motion and Green Hunter Energy. It is the place where Ovagene Oncology and Your Offers have their opportunity to succeed. It is the place where innovation, ideas and inspiration hit the tarmac at dizzying speed: where new cures, new technologies, new businesses and new jobs take root in the global experience that is the American dream. Excellent Wall Street is responsible for the capital formation required to exponentially grow small businesses into pistons of the American Economy with necessary workers, materials and capital.
We are at the cusp of a technological, sustainability and energy revolution which will be the next bull market.
A Washington D.C. bill recently passed the House of Representatives and possesses the hope which the 504c bill did during the 80’s, paving the way at the end of the 20th century for the largest peace time economic expansion in American history. H.R. 2930: Entrepreneur access to Capital Act is the bill (sponsored by Patrick McHenry [R-NC10]), otherwise known as the crowd funding exemption, whose express purpose is “to amend the securities laws to provide for registration exemptions for certain crowd funded securities and for other purpose.” The bill goes on to be voted on in the Senate. I urge you to contact our California Senators at (202) 224-3553 Boxer, Barbara - (D - CA), and (202) 224-3841 Feinstein, Dianne - (D - CA) impressing your sentiments on the bill.
We are the Excellent Wall Street Movement and it is imperative that we take our cues from our best intentions to help out the little guy, innovator and dreamer- the entrepreneur – in the field of opportunity that is global capitalism.
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Comments to date: 1. Page 1 of 1. Average Rating:  Sherwood Neiss
Miami Beach, FL | 7:01pm on Friday, November 25th, 2011 | Patrick,
On behalf of the Startup Exemption (the guys that brought the Crowdfund Investing framework and the basis for HR2930) to Washington, DC. Thank you for this post! To your readers, I urge you to call these Senators and tell them, Crowdfund Investing Equals JOBS. The opponents are trying to derail the discussion from entrepreneurship, innovation, jobs & the American economy by using nonspecific threats of fraud. Anyone who understands the tenants of crowdfunding knows that the million community eyes vetting a deal is going to be a more powerful policeman than the regulators claim to be. However, unless we speak up, we won't be able to make Crowdfund Investing legal. So please call your Senators!
Regards,
Sherwood Neiss
Chief Advocate, The Startup Exemption |
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