The legal situation concerning micro investments on CouchTycoon.net

CouchTycoon´s game-like framework allows for the first time in the history of on- and off-line buisiness that early stage ventures or existing businesses can be offered to investors uncomplicated and fast.
Investors can join early stage ventures or support bright ideas from zero hour on and participate in the success from the very beginning.

The CouchTycoon.net crowdfunding network is operated by the german PIPELINE ventures GmbH located in Hamburg.

Due to legal reasons we only sell posters on one side and money needs to be converted in to CouchChips (at the fixed rate of 12 CC for 1 USD) if you want to buy additional Asset Slips on the other side. CouchChips can be re-converted into USD at any time as long as they are not invested in a venture.

CouchTycoon.net acts as custodian for the owners of Asset Slips and holds the real stake of the venture on base of a participation agreement or registration with the companies house. The stake CouchTycoon.net holds or is going to hold is placed in Asset Slips (microshares).
The game-like setup allows the flexible and realtime transfer of Asset Slips from one user to another free of legal restrictions or formal requirements. The setup was choosen for not being faced with different national legislations depending where the venture is registered or run and for not coming within the limits of financial market authorities.

CouchTycoon.net's legal framework allows the placement of micro-shares starting at 100 USD by issuing and selling Venture Posters and allows that users can speculate on falling and rising Asset Slip quotations built by offer and acceptance.

In spite of the game-like setup ventures, profits and losses are real. Every vendee of a Venture Poster or additional Asset Slips faces the risk of losing the Dollars he changed to CouchChips. Asset Slips can not be changed in USD directly, they need to be sold to an other CouchTycoon for 'CouchChips' that can be changed. A venture's bankruptcy e.g. is probably followed by the fact that no one is willing to buy the venture's Asset Slips anymore. CouchTycoon.net, PIPELINE ventures GmbH and the executives of this website are not liable for the loss of the invested money, business failure of the ventures or any other circumstances that result in the loss of money that has been changed to CouchChips.

The ventures terms and conditions settle how many percent of the venture an entrepreneur offers to the vendees of Venture Posters (and owners of Asset Slips), which stake in the venture an Asset Slip represents and which topics are subject to 'investor votings'.


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