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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A piece of information to follow up on the Crowdfunding discussion at the Council on Grantsmanship and Research. This is a free webinar.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Monotype Corsiva";color:#1F497D'>Linda Mason, Ed.D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Coordinator of Grant Writing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>655 Research Parkway, Suite 200<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Oklahoma City, OK 73104<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>405-225-9486 desk<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>405-706-8757 cell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>405-225-9230 FAX<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>lmason@osrhe.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Anthony Ventimiglia [mailto:VENTIAF@auburn.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 24, 2012 1:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> Mason, Linda<br><b>Subject:</b> FW: Crowdfunding and Startup Investing Webinar<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>: Research Commercialization and SBIR Center <a href="mailto:[mailto:announcements@mail1.ncet2.org]">[mailto:announcements@mail1.ncet2.org]</a> <br><b>Sent</b>: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 12:04 PM<br><b>To</b>: Martha Taylor <br><b>Subject</b>: Crowdfunding and Startup Investing Webinar <br></span> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p> <o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=10 cellpadding=0 width=800 style='width:600.0pt;background:white;border:solid #666666 1.0pt'><tr><td style='border:none;border-bottom:solid #666666 1.0pt;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><img border=0 width=400 height=71 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://center.ncet2.org/images/courseimage/ncet2logo.jpg" alt=ncet2><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Presents</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2323DC'><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0066CC'>Crowdfunding Webinar Mini-Series</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0066CC'>Upcoming Webinar:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Crowdfunding and Startup Investing" </span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 1:00-2:30pm ET </span></strong></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Presenters: </span></strong><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jason Best, Co-Founder, Startup Exemption</span></strong><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sherwood Neiss, Startup Exemption </span></strong></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0066CC'>Register for this free series here: </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p><a href="https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/415957282"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=150 height=55 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://center.ncet2.org/images/courseimage/reg.jpg" alt=reg></span></a>(or go to: <a href="https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/415957282">https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/415957282</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=800 style='width:600.0pt;background:white;border:solid #666666 1.0pt;cursor:default'><tr><td style='border:dashed #BBBBBB 1.0pt;border-bottom:solid #666666 1.0pt;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;cursor:text'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0066CC'>ABOUT THIS WEBINAR</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>A rare glimpse of Crowdfund Investing. This free webinar will focus on different aspects on what Crowdfunding is, to what it looks like today, how it differs from Crowdfund Investing, what framework for Crowdfund Investing is to the legislative process in Washington DC, the hurdles to becoming law and dealing with everyone from leading Representatives and Senators all the way up to the White House.</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0066CC'>AGENDA:</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• Overview of Crowdfunding<br>• Introduction of the concept of CrowdFund Investing</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• Where it came from <br>• How it works</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• Entrepreneurs <br>• Social Networking <br>• Local <br>• Innovation</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• What is happening globally with Crowdfunding and why we must pass this now to effectively compete <br>• What we ran into in DC when we began to explore CrowdFund Investing <br>• Decided to try to make a change</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• created Startup Exemption</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• created a common sense regulatory framework</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• began to push for it</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• Who is against CFI? <br>• How has legislation moved through Washington DC?</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• Review chart of different bills </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• Current state of the process </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• Current compromise being discussed in the Senate </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:6.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>• More information: go to: <a href="http://www.legalizecrowdfunding.org/">www.legalizecrowdfunding.org</a></span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=800 style='width:600.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt;background:white;border:solid #666666 1.0pt;cursor:default'><tr><td style='border:dashed #BBBBBB 1.0pt;border-bottom:solid #666666 1.0pt;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;cursor:text'><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0066CC'>SERIES DESCRIPTION:</span></strong><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>In November, the House of Representatives passed The Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act amending the Securities Act of 1933. The bill would allow a new registration exemption for companies raising crowdfunded financing. Companies may raise up to $1 million within a 12-month period without registering the securities with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:6.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:6.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>The Crowdfunding Webinar Mini-Series will feature a balanced array of presenters from government agencies, universities, VC and Angel groups to present the advantages and issues for individual investors, policymakers, Congress and the Administration better understand the implications of crowdfunding.</span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0066CC'>ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;border:initial initial'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f">
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His work there included starting a business from the ground-up during the dot com crash, building broad coalitions of US medical societies in support of Internet-based physician-patient communication and changing FDA regulations to enable physicians to receive electronic medication and device warnings instead of paper. This change dramatically increases patient safety while reducing time and costs for physicians and the pharmaceutical industry.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;border:initial initial'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>He is a successful entrepreneur and consultant to technology companies on business development and strategy issues to enable companies to grow quickly and effectively. In both 2010 and 2011, his work in strategy development, building scaleable processes, partnership development and branding/marketing, led to one of his clients, Kinnser Software, being named by Inc. Magazine as one of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the USA.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In Dec 2010, he also Co-Founded A Single Production Company, a documentary film company based in Bangkok Thailand. He has served as the Executive Producer for its first feature “The Cheer Ambassadors”. The film will premier at the Bangkok World Film Festival in January 2012. He is also working on a program with local entrepreneurs and educators to create a more entrepreneurial Web development industry in Thailand.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jason earned his MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, the world’s top international MBA program as well as a BA from William Jewell College, ranked by Forbes and US News and World Report as one of America’s best national liberal arts colleges. He has lived and worked in Europe, South America and Asia. He grew up in Louisiana and is now based in San Francisco, California to be near snow skiing, the ocean and wine country.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;border:initial initial'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Sherwood Neiss at work" href="http://www.startupexemption.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IMG_1026.jpg" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:112.5pt;height:112.5pt;z-index:251659264;mso-wrap-distance-left:3.75pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:3.75pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t">
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As a 3-time INC500 winner whose company won E&Y’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Sherwood understands the keys to entrepreneurial success from concept to company to sale.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sherwood Neiss started his post-MBA career on Wall Street and moved to Silicon Valley where by his 29<sup>th</sup> birthday reached the personal and financial goals he set for his 30<sup>th</sup> year. Wondering what to do next and also left struggling with a debilitating family dilemma, he used his entrepreneurial drive to help turn his family adversity into a multi-million dollar company that today is helping millions of sick children, animals and adults get better by being more compliant with their medicines.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sherwood Neiss co-founded FLAVORx (<a href="http://www.flavorx.com/"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#0066CC'>www.flavorx.com</span></a>) the company makes 42 yummy flavors that take the yuck out of medicine. His structured approach helped not only build a business model that threw off millions of dollars in cash but also helped grow the business from one pharmacy to over 80% of the pharmacies in the United States. He raised millions of dollars in capital and saw the culmination of his endeavors with the sale of the company in 2007.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sherwood is an avid public speaker. He speaks at universities and seminars around the world about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, how to fund your idea and build a winning company. He testified at three Congressional hearings; one on the impediments to capital formation under Sarbanes-Oxley and two regarding access to capital for entrepreneurs and Crowdfund Investing. His SOX testimony was one of the reasons the Small Business Exemption to section 404(b) audit requirements was passed in July 2010.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Most recently Sherwood won the November 2010 & May 2011 <a href="http://www.startupweekend.org/" title="Startup Weekend"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#0066CC'>Startup Weekend Challenges</span></a> in Miami to use smartphones for instant polling & for an equity based crowdfunding platform. Currently he advocating for the SEC to update the securities laws to make it legal for groups of people to pool small dollar amounts of money together to invest in startups aka “Crowdfund Investing.”</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>When not working, Sherwood is an avid traveler. He lived in Japan for a year and post-sale of FLAVORx took his second backpacking trip around the world. In addition to speaking at universities and businesses around the country he invests in real estate in the U.S. and Brazil, is part of a Private Equity group in Los Angeles, is working on a clean tech project in Puerto Rico and is involved with several other start-up ventures.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline-width: 0px;outline-style: initial;outline-color: initial;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;border:initial initial'><span style='font-size:10.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p> <o:p></o:p></p><p><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>WEBINAR DURATION: </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Each session is a 90-minute webinar with 60 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of Q&A.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>COST: </span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Free, but registration required by clicking on register the Register button above.<span style='color:#333333'><br><br><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>HOW TO PARTICIPATE?:</span></strong> This webinar is online. You need a computer with web access for the visual/audio. You may also dial-in using the audio-only telephone number. The call in details and instructions on how to join the webinar will be sent to you via email after you register. 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