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Ryan Feit

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Ryan Feit is the CEO and Co-Founder of SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform that provides individual investors with access to vetted startup investment opportunities. To date they have over 600,000 investors on their platform, through which founders have raised over $350M. SeedInvest sold to Circle in 2019. Prior to founding SeedInvest, Ryan worked at Wellspring Capital Management and Lehman Brothers in New York City where he invested in, financed, and managed dozens of private and public businesses. Ryan was instrumental in the passage of the 2012 JOBS Act, which changed 80-year-old U.S. securities laws to make it possible for entrepreneurs to raise capital over the Internet. Since then, Ryan has served as a focal point of the budding Equity Crowdfunding industry, co-founding the Crowdfunding Professional Association and serving as a board member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates. He also worked closely with members of the SEC, FINRA, the White House, and the Treasury Department on the implementation of the JOBS Act. In addition, he frequently serves as a subject matter expert on startup investing and the JOBS Act for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, CNBC, FoxBusiness, the Economist and the New York Times as well as a columnist for Fortune Magazine and Inc. Magazine. Ryan received an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Topics Covered by Ryan Feit in this Episode  SeedInvest in a nutshell How Ryan got into the digitization and democratization of investing Getting the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act approved The challenges of building a two-sided marketplace Getting SeedInvest off the ground and why they started with onboarding investors How they scaled the platform Shifting from onboarding investors to focusing on onboarding great companies Risk mitigation and how they vet companies for SeedInvest Their semi-automated diligence process Following up with and supporting companies who don’t qualify for the platform Tracking investors Supercharging their business with more resources by selling to Circle Their decision-making process and Ryan’s advice around acquisition SeedInvest’s big ambitions and Ryan’s thoughts on the future of investing  Listen to all episodes of the Just Go Grind Podcast: https://www.justgogrind.com Follow Justin Gordon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/justingordon212

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanfeit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ryan Feit</a> is the CEO and Co-Founder of <a href="https://www.seedinvest.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SeedInvest</a>, a leading equity crowdfunding platform that provides individual investors with access to vetted startup investment opportunities. To date they have over 600,000 investors on their platform, through which founders have raised over $350M. SeedInvest sold to <a href="https://www.circle.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Circle</a> in 2019. Prior to founding SeedInvest, Ryan worked at Wellspring Capital Management and Lehman Brothers in New York City where he invested in, financed, and managed dozens of private and public businesses. Ryan was instrumental in the passage of the 2012 JOBS Act, which changed 80-year-old U.S. securities laws to make it possible for entrepreneurs to raise capital over the Internet. Since then, Ryan has served as a focal point of the budding Equity Crowdfunding industry, co-founding the Crowdfunding Professional Association and serving as a board member of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates. He also worked closely with members of the SEC, FINRA, the White House, and the Treasury Department on the implementation of the JOBS Act. In addition, he frequently serves as a subject matter expert on startup investing and the JOBS Act for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, CNBC, FoxBusiness, the Economist and the New York Times as well as a columnist for Fortune Magazine and Inc. Magazine. Ryan received an MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Topics Covered by Ryan Feit in this Episode <ul> <li>SeedInvest in a nutshell</li> <li>How Ryan got into the digitization and democratization of investing</li> <li>Getting the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act approved</li> <li>The challenges of building a two-sided marketplace</li> <li>Getting SeedInvest off the ground and why they started with onboarding investors</li> <li>How they scaled the platform</li> <li>Shifting from onboarding investors to focusing on onboarding great companies</li> <li>Risk mitigation and how they vet companies for SeedInvest</li> <li>Their semi-automated diligence process</li> <li>Following up with and supporting companies who don’t qualify for the platform</li> <li>Tracking investors</li> <li>Supercharging their business with more resources by selling to Circle</li> <li>Their decision-making process and Ryan’s advice around acquisition</li> <li>SeedInvest’s big ambitions and Ryan’s thoughts on the future of investing</li> </ul> Listen to all episodes of the Just Go Grind Podcast: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=qgLzW3af2GM&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbHk1UzBzQ0VMcXZYUXFkbTQ3WHFES0dWUlNpd3xBQ3Jtc0ttc09EMlM4dkNoNHFkSTIwcWFOUWhyVEVGU2h0XzNYZHdrWjNCaHVSR2NBR1FFUU94Q1hNbTVaSXJlX1VPelctVzB1LW1RdDlTNVhibEJyem9nZVloaW5qYURKQkR2Vzl5eGc2Um5aUnNLLTVpWWxaTQ%3D%3D&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.justgogrind.com%2Fpodcast%2F" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.justgogrind.com</a> Follow Justin Gordon on Twitter: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=qgLzW3af2GM&amp;event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVZ0ZU16T0JGSTFUUUdrQUt2UFVVUEFQa3VxQXxBQ3Jtc0tua2p4ZkRvU3Z3LUR5Zmh0cGZOUVVMbWU2QS1ib1luaXBoWG1aN29vbmNrTHFBMW5iMXdWeXVQeDlOajBLOUhRX01TdDlCNWJ6OXB3bFFPanJPS2VCVXBlamowQm1mQVJ5X1M2ZlpNRHdoNkxhbUtlZw%3D%3D&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fjustingordon212" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/justingordon212</a>

#318: Ryan Feit of SeedInvest, on the Digitization and Democratization of Investing, Building a Two-Sided Marketplace, and the Acquisition Process

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ryan Feit, co-founder of SeedInvest, to talk about creating the Robinhood for private startups (3:45), working at Lehman Brothers before the recession (6:45), scratching the entrepreneurial itch (12:45), business school (16:30), the idea for SeedInvest (18:30), getting a law passed in Congress (20:20), making the regulator’s job harder (28:45), pondering giving up (31:45), finally getting regulations passed (34:20), the average SeedInvest investor (37:50), what’s in it for founders (42:10), and frothy markets (46:40). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Ryan Feit, co-founder of SeedInvest, to talk about creating the Robinhood for private startups (3:45), working at Lehman Brothers before the recession (6:45), scratching the entrepreneurial itch (12:45), business school (16:30), the idea for SeedInvest (18:30), getting a law passed in Congress (20:20), making the regulator’s job harder (28:45), pondering giving up (31:45), finally getting regulations passed (34:20), the average SeedInvest investor (37:50), what’s in it for founders (42:10), and frothy markets (46:40). Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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