1. Financing a start-up company After the stock market crash in 1929, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was established to protect investors from fraudulent investments and to regulate the securities industry. Based on your understanding of SEC regulations, which of the following statements are true? Check all that apply. The SEC does not allow companies to specify or limit which groups or types of investors to whom a company can issue securities. The SEC evaluates the information given in the prospectus and has the right to delay or stop a public offering if the information is misrepresented or if material facts are not included in the prospectus. As soon as a company decides to sell stock to prospective investors, it starts to advertise in order to increase the marketability of its new shares. The SEC requires that all marketing and promotional material be distributed, along with the prospectus, to all prospective investors. In most public offerings, investors are classified based on their profiles. Individuals of high net worth, institutional investors, senior executives, and directors of companies are referred to as A company has to grow to a certain level before it can successfully raise capital by selling its stock to the public. At different stages, a company has different financing needs; it raises capital by reaching out to different kinds of investors. Consider this case: Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook, a social networking website, in February 2004. He recruited his friends Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes to grow the company. In the summer of 2004, their first investor, Peter Thiel-the cofounder of PayPal-invested $500,000 into Facebook for a 10.2% stake in the company. In late 2004, Facebook was valued at $100 million and received funding of $12.7 million from Accel Partners. Facebook kept growing and received $25 million in funding from Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital. After several acquisition attempts and rounds of funding, Microsoft invested $240 million into Facebook for 1.6% of the company in October 2007. Based on your understanding of investors in different stages of a start-up's financial cycle, which of the following companies or individuals would be referred to as a venture capitalist? O Chris Hughes O Dustin Moskowitz O Mark Zuckerberg O Accel Partners