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Take A Company Public – S1 Filings – Private Placement Memorandums – You’re A Tasty Treat For Wolves

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Take A Company Public – S1 Filings – Private Placement Memorandums – You’re A Tasty Treat For Wolves
So many companies make gargantuan mistakes that are irreversible when it comes to fundraising. Whether you’re taking a company public, finding an attorney to file your S1 or using a consultant to write a Private Placement Memorandum to raise capital; you need to know that you are a tantalizing snack for industry wolves.
Companies seeking the above services with ill-informed executive decision makers often fall prey to predatory consultants who have no intention and couldn’t fulfill the services they are being hired for even if they wanted to. Upstarts and fast talkers who call themselves ‘business consultants’ are usually nothing more than resellers of a service who is a boilerplate, template driven organization without the contacts or knowhow to facilitate an IPO, S1 or PPM.
You’ll be pulled in by their promise of delivery and via technical jargon they’ll impress you with their grasp of the technical intricacies and use of terminology that seems so polished and refined but buyer beware; 9 out of every 10 consultants that I’ve come across don’t know the difference between a reverse merger and a direct filing or regulation d rule 504 and regulation d rule 506 and even worse new or wannabe s1 facilitators will often confuse a DPO and an IPO and in the end the client, who doesn’t know what questions to ask, is left with a structure they can’t capitalize. The later is true! A few months back my schedule was completely booked and there was an organization that needed to go public. They were within a 3 mile radius of a lawyer that had been calling me for months to get project referrals so I referred this IPO transaction to her in hopes that she would take care of the client, next thing I know she has the client convinced that a DPO is the best route and authored the PPM accordingly. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
If you’re looking for a real consultant who can actually come through with the above solutions or expansion strategies stay away from the pushy ‘sales’ oriented organization. You almost want a consultant that you have to call 3 times to get on the phone and then have them talk you out of moving forward. They are testing you and your dedication to your company and project. Stay away from ‘broker’ types who ‘love’ your business and don’t or can’t poke holes in your corporate structure, expansion strategy, board of directors or other elements to your business. On another note, walk away from those who try to disguise their true lack of comprehension with technical talk. They are just trying to distract you from the fact that they don’t have a clue as to what they are doing. There are so many distraction techniques. The best consultants start out with, “OK, tell me about your business and what are you trying to accomplish”? They’ll ask about your ‘C’ level executives, product and service intricacies, marketing plan, three year projections, strategic alliances in place, board of directors and more. Your response to these questions will help the strategist formulate a plan to set up a structure that works.

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So many companies make gargantuan mistakes that are irreversible when it comes to fundraising. Whether you’re taking a company public, finding an attorney to file your S1 or using a consultant to write a Private Placement Memorandum to raise capital; you need to know that you are a tantalizing snack for industry wolves.
Companies seeking the above services with ill-informed executive decision makers often fall prey to predatory consultants who have no intention and couldn’t fulfill the services they are being hired for even if they wanted to. Upstarts and fast talkers who call themselves ‘business consultants’ are usually nothing more than resellers of a service who is a boilerplate, template driven organization without the contacts or knowhow to facilitate an IPO, S1 or PPM.
You’ll be pulled in by their promise of delivery and via technical jargon they’ll impress you with their grasp of the technical intricacies and use of terminology that seems so polished and refined but buyer beware; 9 out of every 10 consultants that I’ve come across don’t know the difference between a reverse merger and a direct filing or regulation d rule 504 and regulation d rule 506 and even worse new or wannabe s1 facilitators will often confuse a DPO and an IPO and in the end the client, who doesn’t know what questions to ask, is left with a structure they can’t capitalize. The later is true! A few months back my schedule was completely booked and there was an organization that needed to go public. They were within a 3 mile radius of a lawyer that had been calling me for months to get project referrals so I referred this IPO transaction to her in hopes that she would take care of the client, next thing I know she has the client convinced that a DPO is the best route and authored the PPM accordingly. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
If you’re looking for a real consultant who can actually come through with the above solutions or expansion strategies stay away from the pushy ‘sales’ oriented organization. You almost want a consultant that you have to call 3 times to get on the phone and then have them talk you out of moving forward. They are testing you and your dedication to your company and project. Stay away from ‘broker’ types who ‘love’ your business and don’t or can’t poke holes in your corporate structure, expansion strategy, board of directors or other elements to your business. On another note, walk away from those who try to disguise their true lack of comprehension with technical talk. They are just trying to distract you from the fact that they don’t have a clue as to what they are doing. There are so many distraction techniques. The best consultants start out with, “OK, tell me about your business and what are you trying to accomplish”? They’ll ask about your ‘C’ level executives, product and service intricacies, marketing plan, three year projections, strategic alliances in place, board of directors and more. Your response to these questions will help the strategist formulate a plan to set up a structure that works.


July 23rd, 2010 |

Tags: board of directors recruiting, cfo, coo, going public, PCAOB Audits, private placement memorandums, qualify a ceo, qualifying a board member, s1 attorney, S1 Attorneys, S1 Filing, S1 Filings, s1 lawyer, take a company public, taking a company public




S1 Filing – 15c211 – Take A Company Public – Private Placement Memorandums – Redefining The Dream

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S1 Filing – 15c211 – Take A Company Public – Private Placement Memorandums – Redefining The Dream
Once upon a time the American Dream was simple; start a company, grow the company, create jobs and provide a better path for your children. Now the American dream is how to stay afloat, keep your house and remove the daggers that the government is ramming in the small of your back. Your congressman and governor say one thing and do another. The white house takes your tax dollars with one hand and pickpockets you for your lunch money with the other.

Activist bloggers and armchair protesters are against the system when it’s convenient but when the spotlight is off and no one is watching they golf with their senator and take quiet money from special interest groups.

The entrepreneur has been drug into the darkened alleyway, sucker punched, hogtied and left to rot by a system that uses them like a smack-head hits the pipe and as long as the media keeps quiet, the individual entrepreneur feels that they are the only ones engaged in this struggle but this is simply not the case.

The banks wanted more than your house, they wanted your tax dollars and the government gave it to them and in front of the cameras they shook hands and agreed that this ‘bailout money’ would go back into the economy to spark a resurgence in civilian confidence in a system that force-feeds poison and slices off pounds of flesh from it’s zombie citizens.

The reality is, in back room meetings and secret handshakes this money was understood to go into the pockets of corrupt institutional banks and would never make it to local and national economic relief. Knowing all of this, ask yourself, at the end of the day, who can you turn to? What politician at any level can you trust to cut you a break? The answer is simple, none. Look to your right and left and you’ll find the answer. The accredited investor and people investing in people is the only way to slow down the corruption. Of course when the government sees how unity is productive they’ll figure out a way to pollute our confidence in one another with overgeneralizations and hyphenated ethnicities and other politically correct pig Latin that means nothing but divides everyone. In that division is where the government takes hold.

Here is a revolutionary idea. Actually, it’s not so revolutionary as it is unspoken and it goes like this: Business plan + Private Placement Memorandum + Fund Raising = Take your company public. Taking your company public is the only way to take control of your truly productive and marketable product or service and the steps are simple and above.
First start with a professionally authored business plan that clearly spells out your idea and sets the stage for what your company is about and the reality of what is possible. Be truthful. Be honest and the investors will come if you position yourself properly.
Positioning yourself properly in the USA means setting up a structure that the government can control and in this case the minimum requirement for raising equity capital is with a regulation D rule exemption 504, 505 or 506 also referred to as a private placement memorandum (PPM) which is an SEC regulated mechanism for distributing shares in your company for investment dollars. I’m not a fan of big government but Reg D is a good idea and keeps from the wrong types of people raising capital. Regulation D keeps it clean by spelling out the potential risk factors for your company and by using a valuation it will state a solid ‘per share’ price.
You simply put out a certain amount of equity for public consumption and set the share price and offer it to people by staying within the non solicitation standards set forth by the SEC and it’s that easy. After you’ve initiated your fund raising you’ll want to provide a profitable exit strategy for your investors and you’ll want a way to capitalize off of your position so your company can grow. Going public on the OTCBB (over the counter bulletin board) is a great way to expand and raise capital. Have a qualified securities attorney file your s1 and go through comments with the SEC. Have your consultant or attorney refer you to a solid market maker to sponsor your 15c211 with FINRA and wham-bam you have a trading symbol and you’re public. Now just file your 10k’s and 10Q’s throw in some solid publicity and investor relations and you’re off and running.
Stepping outside the system and getting organized will take you places you’ve never dreamed possible. Get out there! You can do it.


July 19th, 2010 |

Tags: 15c211, board of directors recruiting, cfo, coo, going public, PCAOB Audits, private placement memorandums, qualify a ceo, qualifying a board member, s1 attorney, S1 Attorneys, S1 Filing, s1 lawyer, take a company public, taking a company public




Going Public – Take A Company Public – S1 Attorneys – PCAOB Audits – The Alternative Universe Of OTCBB

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Going Public – Take A Company Public – S1 Attorneys – PCAOB Audits – The Alternative Universe Of OTCBB

The undertaking of a public offering on the OTCBB, just as with the NYSE and NASDAQ can be tedious, strenuous, exhausting and an ongoing perpetuation of one failure after another until you just throw in the towel and call it quits; but it doesn’t have to be that way.
Going public can be rewarding, prosperous, empowering and the beginning of massive capitalization and international expansion. There are two things to remember when putting your ‘going public’ plans together. First: don’t be naïve by thinking that you can do it yourself, you’ll certainly fail as this process has too many components and is infested with sewer rats that will climb on your back for a free ride just in case you make it. Second: be smart and hire an IPO Strategies Consultant. This type of business consultant is rare and difficult to find as they are in demand globally because of the streamlined manner in which they are able to take a company public. Strategies consultants that specialize in pre public corporate strategies and structuring, IPO facilitation and post public investor relations planning and mergers and acquisitions. They’ll expedite the public offering while giving your company a powerful foundation conducive to hardcore domestic and global expansion.
The road to becoming a publicly traded company is littered with the carcasses of companies that either tried to complete the process on their own or corporation with the foresight to hire a consultant but battled the consultant on each portion of the process and added so much stress to the deal that the consultant threw in the towel and moved onto the next project.
Word to the wise, this is one industry that you, the inquisitive self taught or over educated doesn’t stand a chance. The intricacies of this industry are of such proportions that unless you are completely submerged in this business for years with 80 hour work weeks you won’t even crack the surface of what it takes to go public and stay public and grow through expansion with a solid trading volume to monetize your company’s securities to create expansion capital.
Find a consultant, step back, keep your cell phone hand and leave this to the professionals while you reap the rewards. You’ve earned it! Through your blood, sweat and tears you’ve built your company. You’ve created jobs, contributed to the economy, paid Uncle Sam his pound of flesh, you deserve to succeed. Use the process of going public to create wealth for your family, long term job stability for loyal and hard working employees and a product or service distribution that spans the globe.


July 17th, 2010 |

Tags: board of directors recruiting, cfo, coo, going public, PCAOB Audits, qualify a ceo, qualifying a board member, s1 attorney, S1 Attorneys, S1 Filing, s1 lawyer, take a company public, taking a company public




Taking Your Company Public – How To Go Public – You’re In Shark Invested Waters

Corporate Funding & Turnaround Strategies 25 Comments »

Before you decide to go public or expand your company’s product or service offering, allow me to paint a picture for you. You’re on a crowded beach, the water is warm, the waves are calm and you decide to break away from the crowd and confidently swim a little further than everyone else. All is calm; the sun gently warms your back as one stroke after the next takes you further from the beach and closer to the distant horizon. A few minutes later the sun is covered by clouds and like a bomb ‘BAM’ a crack of thunder, lightning lights up the sky and buckets of rain begin to pour from gray clouds. You look back and the entire beach is deserted.

The lifeguard shack is empty and the waves begin to build. You’re trying to swim back to shore but the current violently drags you out further into the ocean. You fight to stay afloat as one wave after the next crashes upon you. Your lungs fill up with water, you’re muscles cramp and just as you’re about to give into your fate, the rain stops and the water becomes calm. You can gather just enough energy to begin to swim back to the beach. All of a sudden you feel a bump on your thigh and then a sharp pain on your foot as you’re drug down into the darkness and as you fight to free yourself you notice that you’ve unknowingly swam into the center of a starving school of sharks and they take turns gnawing off pieces of your flesh.

Your arms, back, legs, neck, face, chest and feet all shredded by the razor sharp teeth of sharks. The blood only attracts more sharks of different colors and shapes. All you can do is kick, punch and scream to keep your limbs intact then suddenly you feel sand beneath your feet, you’ve reached the shoreline and you craw with every ounce of strength you have left toward the abandoned lifeguard shack. Once you’re on land you look out at the ocean and the entire expanse of the water is teaming with sharks. You look down at your body and though in one piece has been ripped to shreds.

This is the most accurate description I can give of what it’s like to try to go public or expand globally without the proper game plan and consultants watching your back and helping you contemplate your chain of moves as you go forward. There is an entire industry out there that is just waiting for you to step off the path and into the shadows so they can get a piece of you. Wasted capital here, wasted capital there, it all adds up.

When taking your company public or planning a product or service expansion into outside geographic proximities why go it alone? Seek out qualified consultants that can navigate you through the shark infested waters so that you can achieve your goals quickly and with as few bumps in the road as possible.


July 5th, 2010 |

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Expansion Consultants – Taking A Company Public – Finding The Right Consultant

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Expansion Consultants – Taking A Company Public – Finding The Right Consultant
If you are trying to grow your company, expand, raise capital or globalize your concept I’m going to give you some insider advice. Now, I hate to be the bearer of bad news and I hate to rain on your parade but chances are, if you’re trying to achieve the above and you are doing it yourself you have about a 1% chance of succeeding. You need to hire a full service strategies consultant in order to do this properly as a qualified and full service consultant will evaluate your company and streamline the process with as few bumps in the road as possible.

Now here is the problem, entering into the realm of globalization strategists and pre IPOs is a world of shark infested waters and a sky that is down pouring with razorblades. Stay under water and get eaten alive or come up for air and get bled dry while you’re sliced and diced by the elements. This is not a place for upstarts or armatures. There are consultants who prey on people just like you. They understand your emotional needs, economic ambitions and they know what you want to hear and the psychological criteria to feed the empty spaces in your soul. There are some slick willies out there. So if you are trying to get ahead and understand the realities of failure in going it alone how can you find a consultant that will get you where you need to go with as little headache as possible?

Good question. First of all, be weary of a consultant who is on your side from the beginning of the first conversation. The last thing you want is a happy go lucky consultant that is all smiles and laughs and immediately falls for the picture that you paint for him on your first call. This guy is a chump, he’s naïve and chances are he’ll take your retainer fee and 24 months later the only thing you’ll have to show for it is a negative balance on your corporate checking account.

You want a consultant that is, um well, for a lack of a better term…a bastard. You need a hardnosed, arrogant, self centered power player who has developed a sense of confidence so pure that he would tell you to take a hike before he agrees to even look at your business plan to even consider bringing you on. You want a guy that will ask you or should I say “drill you” will questions in a way that makes you feel like you know nothing at all about your company, industry or your position. This breed of consultant, if he takes you on after qualifying you as a legitimate effort will turn your world upside-down and add jet fuel to your growth strategies and fill your company with the highest pedigreed executives in the industry, globalize your concept and not just take you public, but demand action from market makers, securities dealers and investor relations servants because his track record of success and strategic pre IPO picks are so obvious and dripping with success and profitability that these individuals in the market place have no choice but to act on his advice.

This is truly an industry where the nice guy gets eaten alive. When evaluating a globalization, positioning or IPO facilitation consultant everything is based off of track record, contacts and the aura


May 21st, 2010 |

Tags: expansion consultants, expansion consulting firm, go public, going public, how to go public, investor relations consultant, take company public, taking a company public




Taking A Company Public – God, Monsters And The Institutional Lender

Corporate Funding & Turnaround Strategies 5 Comments »

Taking A Company Public – God, Monsters And The Institutional Lender
Minimal input, maximum output is the motto of most politicians that are driven by backdoor profiteering from this economic collapse. If you think that your local politician’s main interest is his/her constituents and the issues facing your town such as job loss, debt and foreclosure, you need to wake up, turn off the TV and start looking at your senator and congressman’s voting record and better yet, corporate election sponsorships. Financial greed and the cult of power is what motivate these people. Your vote is merely a vehicle to their ability to obtain both simultaneously.

There are two spheres that fuel the political machine: big oil and lobbyist financial facilitation, your vote is secondary and can typically be bought. Bought? Of course, don’t be so naive as to think that you vote with your gut and unique conviction. What news channels do you watch? After the televised staging of a debate what commentators do you turn to for the breakdown of what the candidates were ‘really saying’?

You, whether you want to admit it or not, are a product of the political persuasion of the news you watch or talk radio you listen to. We have unqualified talking heads in office that spew regurgitations proctologically embedded in them by the special interest groups that sponsor their election. Banking institutions are one of the industries that perpetuate and stimulate the actions of these politicians. Global banks who sponsor the cycle of ‘control by debt’ are the first to jump on the bandwagon and contribute capital to a system that perpetuates this process. When small and medium size businesses need capital the first people they turn to are institutional bankers. Herein lies the problem. When a bank funds your project they hand over a minuscule fraction of actual capital and the pie in the sky fractional reserve numbers take care of the rest. Typically an FDIC backed bank who lends $100k only needs to have $10k in reserve, the rest is added by the Fed in the form of digital read outs on a screen and the illusion of empirical collateral. Being that there is no gold standard and nothing but consumer confidence that backs up our dollar the privately held Federal Reserve can print money at a whim and better yet, add a few zeros to the calculations on a computer monitor and you can make or break a bank which in turn can make or break a regional or national economy.

Entrepreneurs should first consider taking their project to the public via Regulation D (504, 505 or 506) or Private Placement Memorandum and then seek out qualified consultants who can help facilitate a public offering where the company deals directly with the public and 10k’s and 10q’s in combination with the company’s profitability and expansion will dictates it’s success. Companies function best when governed less. Sure white collar crimes have been in the news and the executives go to jail, and rightfully so but consider the reality that politicians and top tier banks have been publicly crucifying business owners for years. Which is worse?

As an investor you should evaluate your investments and get diversification advice from qualified financial advisers as entrepreneurs your first call should be to a consultant that can write a PPM and a solid business plan and take it to investors. Banks should be the absolute last resort for a small and medium size business. The days of entrepreneurs voluntarily placing their heads on the chopping block in the name of institutional control and political capitalization should come to an end.


May 20th, 2010 |

Tags: expansion consultants, expansion consulting firm, go public, going public, how to go public, investor relations consultant, take company public, taking a company public




Global Expansion – Taking A Company Public – Who Should Proceed And Who Should Give It Up

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Global Expansion – Taking A Company Public – Who Should Proceed And Who Should Give It Up
If you’re reading this you are most likely contemplating the possibility of going public or taking your public company global for distribution expansion. While your intentions may be in the right place your company may not be in a position for these types of growth.
Let’s look at going public. I get calls daily from companies and startups with products ranging from a new shoelace that is going to revolutionize the sneaker industry to underwater gimp costume sowing instructional videos and sometimes, I mean very rarely will I get a cold call from a client that will actually succeed in going public and sustaining a public entity post IPO. Unless you have profits, limited liability and real distribution and scalability, you have nothing at all. Ideas come and go and very few concepts are so revolutionary that they can Google-ize and industry.
Your industry is actually secondary but the reality is that it should be as ‘recession proof’ as possible. I know what you’re thinking, nothing is recession proof and yes you are partially correct. But your corporation should still be able to operate during a recession and still bring in, no matter how slim, profits during hard times. This is how you will be able to bring in securities back PIPE loans and LOC’s when your stock is trading in minimal volume. I could go on about this point for pages upon pages but I only have 400 words to get my point across so I’ll move on.
Globalization is an endeavor that should only be taken on once you’ve conquered your own backyard. When you’ve truly dominated your competition in one region you should facilitate and supplement your growth by using your public stock as collateral for controlled liquidation if you go delinquent. Don’t liquidate shares onto the market in order to raise capital for that expansion to China or Japan. Your company should be able to use is liquid proceeds above and beyond operational costs for this growth and at a worst case you would collateralize assets or securities to come up with the rest of the cash needed.
Most companies that see greener pastures in another country are still two years too early for the expansion. Get an opinion from your corporate and legal advisors then go to your board, bring it to a vote then if the expansion is approved you should bring on a consultant to iron out the kinks and use their contact base to help you grow with as few bumps in the road as possible.
At the end of the day you should bring on the right people who are completely submerged in the IPO and globalization industry to help guide you during the above processes. If you feel you are ready have a meeting with your C level group of executives and write down the pros and cons for going public or expanding and if the pros out weight the cons, find yourself a turnkey consulting firm and take it from there.


May 19th, 2010 |

Tags: expansion consultants, expansion consulting firm, go public, going public, how to go public, investor relations consultant, take company public, taking a company public




Private Placement Memorandum and OTCBB: How to Make Investors Come Out of The Woodwork

Corporate Funding & Turnaround Strategies 14 Comments »

If you are trying to raise capital with a PPM or public entity like OTCBB you need to understand the mind of the investor. After the business plan sells the investor on the business concept you need to sell them on you and your executive staff. You need to stack your executive positions with professionals with a proven track record of success and possess a solid reputation in the industry. You must paint the picture for investors that your business is run by the who’s who in your industry and this pedigree is demonstrated by your education, degree, grades in college, professional organizations of which you have been and are currently a member, advisory board positions with other corporate organizations, a track record of setting up and maintaining strategic alliances, networking contacts and more.

When an investor looks at your human resource list on your PPM, business plan or public offering docs it needs to scream power, authority and confidence. Each individual that you place on your advisory board must have a massive contribution other than ‘advice’. Advisors should be able to prove their ability to assist in crucial decisions, connect your company with strategic partners and help you get to the next level.

Your legal counsel and CPA should be well known organizations with a long list of successful, well known organizations on their client roster and they should have a lot more to offer your company than just their fee based services. Again, these organizations should be able to set you up with partnerships that will help grow your business. As far as corporate awareness you must include a publicist. The publicist that you choose must be well versed in their comprehension of your industry genre.

They must be able to take your company and get you in front of the proper audience that is conducive to enhancing your growth potential. They must be able to demonstrate their knowledge of viral online marketing as well as traditional means of radio, TV and article promotion. They should be able to reach into their contact list and set you up with one interview after another targeting your specific audience.

These are just a few things to take into consideration when you jump on the fund raising trail. Every individual you have listed on your docs must be able to pass due diligence and have the appeal that reaches into the ‘comfort’ zone portion of the investor’s mind.


December 1st, 2009 |

Tags: 505, 506, go public, going public, how to go public, ipo, offering memorandum, PPM, private placement memorandum, public shell, Reg D rule 504, regulation d, reverse merger, take your company public




Private Placement Memorandum: A Must Read If You Need Investors

Corporate Funding & Turnaround Strategies 6 Comments »

This article is nine years in the making. The concept is so simple but 99% of the clients I consult with have made identical errors in their effort to raise capital. They will have a business plan and they will have a Private Placement Memorandum and after one read of these two documents I have to deliver the bad news, “Sorry, but your business plan and PPM are completely worthless”.

They will then proceed to give me a story where the one consistent theme usually goes like this, “That can’t be…there was a guy…..he gave us a great deal on our business plan besides he wrote the business plans for my brothers sock sewing company and my friends underwater basket weaving video business and he really seemed to know what he was doing and then we bought a template online and just took the content from the business plan and used it to fill out the PPM template…blah..blah..blah…”.

Look, before you have a business plan written, test the author’s knowledge on your specific industry genre. There is no such thing as a one stop shop for business plans, the good consultants will cater to certain industries. Find an author with a solid comprehension of your goals and can translate your ideas into the fickle, skeptical language of the investors reading it.

Your business plan should include, at a minimum, financial projections/assumptions, growth and development analysis, market analysis, research analysis and implementation, competition analysis, management summary, marketing plan, risk analysis, capitalization analysis, market penetration analysis and SWOT analysis. Without these crucial elements your business plan is dead in the water and so is your future in fundraising.

Next, never… and I mean never buy a PPM template on the internet. There are certain aspects to your offering circular that can trigger the invest button or snooze button in the mind of investors. Your business plan’s job is to ‘sell’ while the PPM is meant to spell out risk and other technical information that isn’t present in the business plan. The last thing you want to do is simply cut and paste information from the business plan over to the Offering Memorandum; it’s unprofessional and immediately loses legitimacy in the eyes of credible investors. Find a professional consultant, accountant or attorney who specializes in Regulation D to write your Offering Memorandum for you. A poorly written Private Placement Memo can destroy your ability to raise capital so fast it will shock you but a well written, professional PPM will make raising capital fast and easy.


November 30th, 2009 |

Tags: 505, 506, go public, going public, how to go public, ipo, offering memorandum, PPM, private placement memorandum, public shell, Reg D rule 504, regulation d, reverse merger, take your company public




Private Placement Memorandum: Find Out How To Become An Investor Magnet!

Corporate Funding & Turnaround Strategies 17 Comments »

If you’re trying to raise capital there are regulations set forth by the SEC to make sure everyone is conducting business ethically and in a way that can keep one accountable for their actions if fraud takes place. Regulation D Rule exemptions 504, 505 and 506 offer solid fundraising capabilities that can handle most investment needs. Companies typically hire a consulting firm to author these documents and within 30 days you’re off and running and talking to investors; that is, of course talking to investors while staying within the boundaries of Rule 502c which dictates the guidelines for solicitation which means no active promotion of the issuance of your securities.

This basically means that unless you have a bunch of millionaire friends, you’re no better off now than you were before the PPM was created. So, how does one raise capital in an environment which limits the promotion of your offering with such limitations? Easy, corporate publicity! You must have your timing right in order for this to work but here is basically what we do with our clients as we are writing their PPM and what you should do if you already have an Offering Memorandum written. First we make sure that they have a solid presence online, within their industry genre by getting them massive exposure virally using video, social and news bookmarks, press releases, unique article submission, image/photo marketing etc. This exposure is just for basic branding purposes and not advertising the investment opportunity.

This process will draw massive amounts of attention to their company while we use specifically researched tags that will cater to the internet user who is researching their industry and/or looking for this specific company’s position in the marketplace. The next thing that you’ll want to do is promote your company using traditional means such as radio, TV and articles written about your company and executives within the company. Now, these promotions are not ads, instead they are interviews and/or expert conversations where you’re being brought in to talk about your industry as a whole. This passive promotional technique will allow for multiple ‘plugs’ during the conversation that lead potential clients and investors to your doorstep.

If you don’t have a publicist you will need one and during your initial ramp up you’ll want to have a targeted, localized and national audience using a minimum of 5 promotional combinations, this is crucial! Lastly, you are going to want to start blogging like a maniac. Blog and respond to any and every industry specific blog you can find. It is crucial that you carve out your position as an authority in the marketplace to tower like a beacon to future customers and investors.

Now you are ready to start talking to investors. The publicity used above will usually deliver a powerful enough promotion that will yield a steady flow of clients and potential investors and once word gets out that you’re company is solid and that you are offering equity investment opportunities…well the fundraising trail get’s easier and easier. You may also want to consider using an ‘investor finder’ at this point. An ‘investor finder’ is an individual or company that has substantial accredited investor contacts and will introduce you to those contacts for a flat fee. They are not a market maker nor are they a broker dealer. They are typically a broker of sorts that holds minimal securities licenses yet packs a punch with their ability to set you up with active investing contacts.

Raising capital is actually extremely easy if you set your company up in a way that is conducive to investment.


November 30th, 2009 |

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