only invest in an IPO if you know something about their business model, cash flow, and integrity of the person responsible. If you invested in GPUcoin, you just gave someone money on the internet because of a story in a thread.
This is good advice for many people. I had investigated the company and its paperwork, which is one of the reasons why I was willing to buy in. It wasn't a true IPO, it was more of a buy-in for premined coins, as VA LLC's can't have shares.
as you mentioned, LLC's are based on state laws, and most states make it impossible to do an initial public offering of LLC. some states require an LLC to dissolve when a member dies. some states require an LLC to dissolve after a set time (e.g. 20 years). some states don't even allow free exchange of LLC interests. most LLC terms in most states make IPO impossible.
even by some chance an LLC was formed in an LLC IPO friendly state, the LLC will still still find it impossible to IPO because underwriters will balk at any LLC offering. Underwriters will only back a company with strong fundamentals: cash flow, business model, paperwork. anything that may be concerning to trigger a prospective investor's bullshit detector will be passed over by underwriters. If anybody tries to IPO in today's market with an exotic equity like LLC membership won't even get off the launchpad: it's already risky (i.e. startup), and it's made worse by being a tech startup. add crypto to this mix, and there is no way to get an underwriter to support an LLC.
if an underwriter cannot guarantee an IPO, then stay the fuck away.
I just see people proposing LLCs and attempting to raise venture capital as trying to ice skate uphill. why create an entity (LLC) that will make it more difficult to raise funding from the beginning? there are already enough challenges in the crypto market. If someone is actually looking for VC and eventually an IPO, why not just incorporate instead?
anybody that invests in an LLC in such a manner is not even looking at the basic mechanics of an IPO. it's like people use the term IPO but do not actually know what it meanns.