For many years, only the top 2 percent of Americans could invest in startup companies due to excessive regulations. Ryan Feit made it his goal to change that. And now he has built SeedInvest, a company that opens access to more than 240 million would-be investors.
"One of the biggest challenges to changing laws is that you have to deal with incumbents who don't like change," Feit told Opportunity Lives. The process of changing the law that restricted access to the startup market wasn't easy. Feit and his co-founder, James Han, had to fight lobbyists and politicians to convince them that the general public should be able to invest in the startups that they use and love.
BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker's influence on the Supreme Judicial Court was seen for the first time Tuesday as the court returned from its summer recess with three new justices hand-picked by Baker.
Justices Kimberly Budd, Frank Gaziano and David Lowy — plucked from the Superior Court ranks by Baker and confirmed by the Governor's Council this summer — took their seats on the bench Tuesday morning as the SJC prepared to hear cases. But not until Thursday will the complete seven-judge court sit in full for a complete day of hearings.
