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Where the fuck was the board?

It looks like he did a "party round" with tiny investments from a lot of sophisticated investors, combined with bigger investments from less sophisticated investors, and none of them were competent and interested enough to exercise any oversight.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ecomom

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Was there a board? From what I can tell it looks privately held with one majority shareholder.

Per the great state of Nevada:

Jody Sherman ("February Won, Inc") (this is ecomom)

Zem Joaquin ("February Won, Inc")

Alan R. Greene, M.D. FAAP (CareDox, Inc)

Robert Beck BS, MS (EcoMom, Inc.)

John Daniele Hamel (The Cue Ball Group, LLC)

The only one I'd consider credible is Dr. Greene, and in general doctors are exceptionally shitty businesspeople.

Cueball is a small/unknown VC in Boston.

How did you get your hands on this?

Not to speak for the GP but in addition to the Delaware Division of Corporations[1] in which February Won, Inc -- like many startups -- was registered (and where you have to pay a fee), there are quite a few public sites which attempt to aggregate this information, albeit with varying levels of accuracy. For instance, Bloomberg Businessweek [2].

[1] https://delecorp.delaware.gov/tin/GINameSearch.jsp

[2] http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/pe...

I initially thought I'd be smart and realized they'd be registered as a corp in DE, but didn't want to pay the money, so I checked their corp filings as a foreign corporation in NV and CA.

Then I gave up, did google: "ecomom board of directors", and used the plausible-seeming info from Bloomberg Businessweek (which is like Crunchbase for everything outside Silicon Valley, and generally far more accurate). First hit: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/pe...

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