Thursday, April 5, 2012

Jobs act

  • WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will sign the JOBS Act into law Thursday, clinching a rare and hard-fought bipartisan victory for his presidency.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • RICHMOND, Va., April 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What can we learn from Apple, Groupon, and Facebook? That it pays more than a billion dollars to be the first team off the starting block.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama will sign the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act on Thursday. The JOBS legislation includes key initiatives that Obama proposed last year to help small businesses and startups grow and create jobs.
  • (Denver Post)
  • The reality is that crowdfunding may not be right for every startup. Some business models are more capital intensive and wouldn't fit within the constraints of crowdfunding.
  • (Mashable.com)
  • Who in their right mind could vote against a bill in Congress entitled the JOBS Act? The answer obviously is very few members of either house.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • This rule, in effect, is designed to make it less costly for "emerging" companies to get up and going and eventually go public. "Does this create jobs or fraud," asked one of our producers at a morning meeting at CNBC. "Yes," I replied.
  • (CNBC)
  • Today, President Obama is expected to sign the JOBS Act, which contains equity crowd-funding legislation.
  • (PRWeb)
  • With the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the "JOBS Act") awaiting President Obama's signature tomorrow, the pundits are out in full force debating whether the new law will hurt investors. Of course it will.
  • (Forbes)

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