Top 50 cities in Texas are home to 13.3 million residents that will soon be able to invest up to $5,000 per year in private equity investment opportunities
Austin, Texas – Front Page PR (www.crowdfundingPRcampaigns.com), one of America’s leading crowdfunding PR and marketing firms, announced that the firm is now seeking new startups and entrepreneurs that want to take advantage of the new Intrastate Texas Crowdfunding Exemption rules that allows companies to raise up to $1 million from non-accredited investors.
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On December 1, 2014, for the first time in 80 years, Texas-based startups and entrepreneurs will be able to sell private equity shares to all residents living Texas. In addition, all parties will be able to use mass marketing to advertise and publicize their equity investment opportunities using media outlets that focus on Texas Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), which are home to more than 26 million potential customers.
| Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) | Population |
| Houston – The Woodlands – Sugar Land | 6,484,279 |
| Dallas – Plano – Richardson – Irving | 4,627,393 |
| Fort Worth – Arlington – HEB | 2,358,186 |
| San Antonio – New Braunfels | 2,334,363 |
| Austin-Round Rock | 1,938,858 |
| McAllen-Edinburg-Mission | 862,768 |
| El Paso | 862,638 |
| Killeen-Temple | 445,356 |
| Corpus Christi | 443,351 |
| Brownsville-Harlingen | 439,437 |
| Beaumont-Port Arthur | 413,982 |
| Lubbock | 304,682 |
| Laredo | 275,686 |
| Amarillo | 265,821 |
| Waco | 260,728 |
| College Station-Bryan | 246,910 |
| Longview | 226,407 |
| Tyler | 222,781 |
| Abilene | 170,164 |
| Wichita Falls | 152,426 |
| Midland | 150,721 |
| Odessa | 145,960 |
| Sherman-Denison | 125,901 |
| San Angelo | 113,969 |
| Victoria | 96,883 |
| Texarkana | 93,457 |
| Total: | 24,063,107 |
Approximately 20 million of these customers are over the age of 18 and will be able to invest up to $5,000 per year in private equity placements. Once the state educates its residents and new investors become Internet savvy investors, Texas will represent a $100 billion per year pool of venture capital that small businesses and entrepreneurs can use to raise start up funding.
This will prove to be a boon for the large majority of ideas and business plans that are currently being rejected or ignored by the states 70+ business accelerators and incubators.
Any business that has received the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) rubber stamp to be pre-approved for SBA loans should strongly consider opening a business in Texas. Franchisors and franchises are the perfect business model to help franchisees raise money using the new Texas crowdfunding rules. Unlike many startups that will have an unproven track record, franchises with 5 or more profitable locations should be able to provide investors with a better than average chance of success.
Rural areas are a prime target for economic development in Texas where the demand is present for new restaurants, movie theaters, shopping malls, trampoline parks, entertainment venues, but until now have not had access to traditional venture capital due to their location.
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Robert Hoskins
Front Page PR
(512) 627-6622
rhoskins@frontpagepr.com
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