Regulation A+: How the JOBS Act Creates Opportunities for Entrepreneurs and Investors

AFTERWORDA

Afterword

This book is an important educational milestone that will help advance entrepreneurial access to capital.

My colleague Ed Kim and I (our work is cited in the book) discovered and documented the collapse in the small IPO market and the decline in the number of NASDAQ- and NYSE-listed companies. We linked this drop to the loss of millions of jobs in the U.S. economy. Congress responded and gave rise to the JOBS Act. I had the distinct honor of helping to draft Regulation A+ and to testify in support of it in Congress. I was in the Rose Garden when President Obama signed the JOBS Act into law. And, while the SEC’s final Regulation A+ rules took three years to become effective, we are now “off to the races”.

I commend Messrs. ...