12th February 2006
A direct public offering is when a company raises capital by selling its shares directly to what is refer to as affinity groups, unlike an IPO which are sold by a broker dealer to its customers and the general public through other broker dealers who have ...
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12th February 2006
15c211 Was designed to allow fully reporting public companies to have their securities quoted on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board ("OTCBB") by filing some simple disclosure.
Rule 15C211 Under SEC Rule 15C211, a U.S. securities broker or dealer may ...
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12th February 2006
Small and mid-size companies looking to go public usually think IPO (Initial Public offering), but find it difficult to get an underwriter to look at them. They go out an engage a consultant that advises them to do a reverse merger and they usually jump i...
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12th February 2006
A corporate shell could be likened to a house that had been occupied by a family. Prior to the family moving out it was a home. But now it is just shell, a skeleton, a plain house with nobody in it, but if a family was to purchase the house and move in, i...
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12th February 2006
Under the Securities Act of 1933, any offer to sell securities must either be registered with the SEC or meet an exemption. Regulation D (or Reg D) provides three exemptions from the registration requirements, allowing some smaller companies to offer and ...
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12th February 2006
Many business owners with a dream to take their company public often neglect to prepare and plan for the future, very few small and mid-size companies have a business plan.
A business plan is like a road map, and can be likened to when you go on a jour...
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12th February 2006
Are the promoters and consultants destroying the market for Reverse Merger? First lets take a look at reverse merger. In a Reverse Merger, an operating private company merges with a public company that has little or no assets, nor know liabilities (the "s...
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11th February 2006
Sarbanes-Oxley Act or the accountants full employment act as I like to call it, refers to legislation introduced by Senator Paul Sarbanes (D) MD and Representative Michael Oxley (R) Ohio and passed in July of 2002 in response to the Enron and Worldcom sca...
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14th January 2006
The Small Corporate Registration was designed specifically for small businesses. It allows small companies to raise equity or debt capital publicly without having to register with Securities and Exchange Commission. It is designed to streamline the state ...
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28th December 2005
It's the dream of every person who starts a business to some day see it trading in one of the stock exchanges even after they are no longer associated with the company. The first step (#1) is simple since most small company are already incorporated and ha...
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