Florida's Commissioner and the Office of Financial Regulation (OFR), Russell Weigel, III, joins Karen Rands to talk about the access to capital for Florida businesses from private investors. In many ways, Florida has a vibrant angel investor community and a growing presence of venture capitalists expanding into Florida to invest in high tech startups. However, a program put in place by the FL Legislature, with sincere intention to remove artificial barriers to access to capital in 2015, Intrastate Investor Exemption, has in practice created more barriers and resulted in ZERO companies raising capital under this legal method of crowd funding or general soliciting for capital from Florida investors. Commissioner Weigel is committed to changing that so that Florida's entrepreneurial economy can thrive and grow and informed investors can share in their financial success. The Commissioner and the Office of Financial Regulation (OFR) are seeking feedback for a legislative initiative to help stimulate the growth of a capital market for the financing of Florida’s small and expanding businesses. The goal is to promote Florida’s economy through the creation of a self-sustaining, in-state capital market where many newly formed businesses can obtain seed or expansion capital.

Commissioner Weigel is an AV-rated securities attorney, with more than 30 years of legal experience including experience as an enforcement attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission , and a published author.

To provide comment and input to the commission for their consideration as they prepare their legislative modification to the Florida Intrastate Crowd Funding statutes (SCORE -- Small Company Registration), please visit: http://BusinessAccelerationNetwork.com/Florida

Karen Rands, the leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and author of the Best Seller, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, is an authority on creating wealth through investing and building successful businesses that can scale and exit rich. Visit http://KarenRands.co to learn why Investors hire her firm to identify the red flags of deal before you invest or try to raise capital, and entrepreneurs trust her to advise and manage on their capital campaign.

To learn more about the programs and services that Karen and her team offer to entrepreneurs and investors, visit http://karenrands.co

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