Going public, the be all and end all to economic relief for the right companies. If you have a solid business process, profits, a solid infrastructure and scalable business model then yes, going public may be just what you need to get to the next level. Make sure your IR is set up and budget long term for this solution and keep your C level executives on TV and radio and other mass publicity venues that will have your stock price above the name of the company, below the executives name.

But if you are going public because you’re broke and a startup, the combination of the two is a stew that guarantees failure. Investors will poke holes in your business model, corporate infrastructure and board of director pedigrees faster than you can say ‘pump and dump’ and when they do, know this, it will be public and it will be messy.

When going public you need to make sure that your executives are the most elite of the elite and that each board member is serving a specific purpose and contributes in specialty niche as well as offering a recognizable name, whether the name be their name or the company that they represent.

Your executive lineup needs to read like the who’s who of the industry. Your strategic alliances need to look like an ocean of executive samurai lined up to trample any company that could represent even a modest competitive notion.

Your attorneys need to instill fear in defamers and your compliance auditors need to be squeaky clean with a reputation for never bending to the ease of shortcuts. These things, when combined with each other will create massive investor confidence with rapid volume trading growth and an overall business model that will thrive in the public marketplace.

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Keeping ones ears to the tracks, hoping for IPO or Pre IPO involvement to diversify a portfolio just isn’t enough if you are trying to get to the next level of profitability and bang for the buck. Let’s face it a sucker accepts 4% from their local bank and a chump will kneel down before the investment banking giants and beg for inclusion to their ‘insider’ list of HYIP type deals while paying gargantuan commissions and fees that strip the ultimate profitability from the unique transaction they are becoming part of.

Many that have been taken through the ringer by brokerage firms, belittled by money managers who have unrealistic minimum for key transactional involvement have taken it upon themselves to kick those old habits of dependency to the curb and seek out their own solutions for investment.

A key component to successful investment options is to find consulting firms that are both structuring consultants and microcap IPO facilitators.

These organizations will typically open up dialogue with prospective investors and smaller money managers, build the initial rapport, educate and then allow for involvement.

Many of these consulting firms will first be educators by offering free seminars and webinars or even iTunes downloads at no charge and then they cherry pick the investors that are ready to roll while keeping the others who are still skeptical or not ready to move on the back burner and cultivate those relationships.

Solid consultants will continue dialogue while never being pushy or ‘sell-ish’. Bypass the pretentious self-proclaimed demigods of finance and get to the heart of real investment opportunities by latching onto the consultants that actually go through the s1 filing process and attach the market maker to achieve a symbol with FINRA, investing in the company Pre IPO via PPM (Private Placement Memorandum) will give you even better options if you have properly evaluated the company in which you are seeking to invest as you can typically buy shares in a Pre IPO at a tremendous discount to the retail price predicted for the IPO (predicted being the key word).

Talk to a licensed securities/investment professional before investing in any venture and seek legal assistance when needed.

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Today I got yet another email, unsolicited of course, from a guy claiming to have a unique angle with shell companies and he could reverse merge a company into a shell and have it trading in 30 days. My first instinct was to just laugh it off as shell scams are a dime a dozen but this guy was persistent so, against my better judgment I got on a call with him and his ‘partner’.

Like a broken record he kept interjecting ‘we’re the best’, ‘we’re the best’ (though they never did actually answer any of my questions). They had shells that they set up and charge $200k and retain 10% equity, yeah right! What legitimate company would even entertain a proposal like this with a shell? By the end of the call they admitted that they have never done this. They have never had an opportunity to use this ‘unique’ process to take a company public but give them $200k and they can experiment on you and if they lose your money, no problem, they’ll just change their website, company name and do it all over again, it’s the name of the game in the shell scam industry. Chinese companies are the easiest target and after that, any company in the US that wants to take short cuts is prey.

Here are the facts, reverse mergers almost never work and the legitimate mergers are done when an entrepreneur owns the shell and wants to merge a profitable and stable company into the public shell and retain an equity position and many times those deals are not only impossible to find but the terms are horrendous for the company merging into the shell.

A direct filing via S1 is the only way to go on the OTCBB, don’t fall for scams and if you are doing a direct filing, make sure the attorney or consultant you are using offers a complete turn-key solution complete with corporate structuring, globalization, strategic alliance facilitation, legislative tie in, etc. Don’t forget your PCAOB audit and 15c211 filing and be prepared for a massive IR campaign with a PR build that starts 3 to 4 months before you’re even public.

Don’t be a chump! Don’t put yourself out there to be taken advantage of by predatory scammers and con artists. Going public can be incredibly rewarding as long as you do it properly without falling for short cut lies. Do it right the first time and your problems are over!

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