What Are The Advantages To Taking Your Company Public? – PIPE Loans – S1 Filings – Corporate Expansion
Companies decide to go public for many different reasons: expansion, need for capital, exit strategy, acquisition facilitation, globalization etc. But what are the real advantages to going public? First, let’s go over the disadvantages. Your life becomes an open book and as an executive your spending habits and failures will be a matter of public information with your annual and quarterly filings. You’ll be accountable to shareholders. You’ll have a board whose main interest is the company and the shareholders no you or your need for a new luxury car, financial bonus or need for a quick loan from the company that was once possible and easy when your company was a sole proprietor entity. You need trading volume and without it your stock is worthless and your company becomes a blind, deaf, mute, quadriplegic (a bit extreme but you get the point).

The advantages are numerous if your company is ready for the public realm. With a solid trading volume, minimal dilution of stock, solid executive management, an active board of directors, powerful strategic alliances and the ongoing advisory of a strategies consultant your company can expand globally, identify and grow through acquisition and subsidiary mergers, purchase entities and services with stock to retain cash flow. Banks and other institutional lenders will make more funding solutions available. Your exit strategy is built in and turn-key.

The most successful public companies have a few common themes built into their infrastructure. They have recruited a proven and tested CEO, CFO and COO with professional pedigrees and track records that are recognized in the industry and media and will bring with them a strong following of partners and solution mechanisms that will typically yield instantaneous, empirical results on behalf of the company. The board of directors is restructured so that major industry enhancing components are represented such as industry niche legal, financial, distribution, domestic and international. Each of these board members will put their contact portfolio to work for your company for immediate and long term growth and stabilization. One other aspect that all prosperous public entities have is a strategies consultant that keeps everything in line. This individual is also what is referred to as a ‘fixer’. This professional will typically stand in the background constantly analyzing every aspect of the company for weak points and correct them. Whether it be a lazy board member, potential acquisition, CEO not pulling his/her weight, potential legal issues etc., this strategist has a keen eye and typically a massive contact base that, when put into place can correct virtually any situation quickly and seamlessly.

Going public is a great strategy for the right organization. Having all your ducks in a row pre and post public is the key to a successful offering and public markets longevity.

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.

Free videos on IPO, Private Placement memorandums and more at: 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.