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Hi there, reporter for The Verge here. We're doing a story on this and need to speak to you off the record. Email me at [email protected]. Thanks.

The exemption is just for private placement as opposed to an IPO. You still have to be accredited.

It's common, but there actually is no exemption for friends and family. Those offerings should technically be done under the 506 exemption which require investors to be accredited.

It was also illegal, before the JOBS Act, to engage in "general solicitation," which is what raising money via a publicly-viewable crowdfunding page would amount to.

I lost a smartphone in Brooklyn and the NYPD bent over backward to get it back and then asked me to fudge the date that I filed the report, which I told them I was uncomfortable doing. It was very weird. They must be able to book it as some great achievement at the station.

They don't want to. That would detract too much from their ability to serve creatives.

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At $200 a night, you'd still have to rent your extra room in your teeny tiny apartment 105 days out of the year.

And another one from Google: There's no reason to delete things, ever.