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 P2P Venture Market CouchTycoon.net is operated by the german PIPELINE ventures GmbH located in Hamburg.

Due to legal reasons money needs to be changed in toy money CouchChips, at the fixed rate of 12 CC for 1 USD, before being invested. CouchChips can be rechanged in USD at any time as long as they are not invested in a venture.

Company-Shares of a venture that are offered to users in initial couch offering are held in trust by CouchTycoon. CouchTycoon acts as custodian for the investors and holds the stake of the venture on base of a participation agreement or registration with the companies house. The stake CouchTycoon holds or is going to hold is placed in 'asset slips' (microshares) at a standardized initial price of 50 Couchchips in 'initial couch offering'.
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.

CouchTycoons legal framework allows the placement of micro-ventures starting with 100 USD in 'initial couch offering' 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 investor 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 user for 'CouchChips' that can be changed. A ventures bankruptcy e.g. is probably followed by the fact that noone is willing to buy the ventures 'asset slips' anymore. CouchTycoon, 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 Term and Conditions settle how many percent of the venture an entrepreneur offers in the 'initial couch offering' to the investors, which stake in the venture an asset slip represents and which topics are subject to 'investor votings'.


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