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Not only that, the ones that are can be quite scammy.

Highlights from this startup raising money:

-Advertised with TV commercials by former Seinfeld actor

-$160k in assets, raising $50million at >$200million valuation

-CEO was formerly barred from leading companies by the SEC due to security fraud

-The management team has a few more planned IPOs in the biomed and aeronautical industries, and has a graveyard of past businesses that got investor money and went bankrupt.

http://www.businessinsider.com/yayyo-ipo-ads-tv-ramy-el-batr...



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