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Pre IPO Investments – IPO Investing – Getting Access To Great Deals

Monday, October 4th, 2010

For investors, that once in a life time opportunity is always out there happening for someone else. There is always a story about a guy that got in on an IPO for a software company that turned him into an overnight millionaire or that next big bio-tech IPO for a company that has the closest thing to a cure for Alzheimer’s that the industry has ever seen, they did a small pre IPO raise and then closed out the offering and now there are talks of a buyout, again overnight millionaires will be made.

Are these investors exceptional in terms of their research capabilities and knee deep in investment banking contacts that give them insider info on the down low? Most likely they did two simple things the right way. First, they made themselves available for opportunity by subscribing to IPO alerts from reputable firms. If you’re quick to action you could find yourself in the middle of an obscenely profitable venture. Second it’s the luck of the draw for those who are willing to put themselves out there for a little acceptable risk for the chance of big reward. Obviously blatant risks like Forex, pink sheet pump and dumps and investing in pie in the sky concepts that don’t have a chance in heck of actually working are for the few adrenalin junky millionaires who thrive off of the rush of, um well, losing.

If, hypothetically you get access to a possible jackpot IPO in the rare ‘Pre IPO’ stage what is your next move? Who do you call to help you with research and how do you evaluate the company on the spot based off of the prototypical PPM? First, if it’s your money it’s fine to get a second opinion but you need to know what to look for in a viable investment.

Here is how you do a spot audit for stability in an investment in the Pre IPO phase: 1. Look for a solid corporate structure consisting of well pedigreed professionals in the C-level positions, strong and diversified inter-industry board of directors, secondary advisory board, strategic alliances and an equity/share distribution mechanism that is organized and compliant and a share price based off of a solid valuation by a reputable firm.

2. Are they in a growth industry? When you look at the founders resume in the business plan are they serial entrepreneurs with a track record of modest success but minimal focus? Or has their career been targeted and focused on one single direction? You want to professional that has worked his entire life honing his skills and pedigree for this particular industry and this on opportunity and he’s all in and there is minimal possibility of pump and dump.

3. What is their 12 month strategy post public? What is their growth strategy? If they think they can grow organically they’re in for a shocker. They have to show a plan for post public growth through acquisition and subsidiary merger. What targets do they have lined up and what will they bring to the company which will ultimately affect your share price and overall investment. Who does their legal? What is their post public market creation strategy and who is their contracted investor relations firm and what is their track record for dealing with companies in this particular industry genre? What is their globalization strategy for rapid and expedient but controlled growth?

4. Are they politically connected? What strategies firm are they working with to gain global and incremental political and legislative support? What bills are they mentioned in and who are the politicians that are sponsoring and cosponsoring this legislation and what type of photo opps and press is being set up to make this company the face to the industry?

Never invest with borrowed funds or capital that you depend on for retirement or necessity. Only invest with capital you’re not afraid to lose (this goes for any and all investments). Getting involved in pre IPO opportunities can be very rewarding for the informed, accredited investor. Do your research and make yourself available to the right circles of influence that can act as hotbeds for opportunity. Surround yourself with industry insiders and ask lots of questions.

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Corporate Crisis Management Is Like Having Micro-Militias Ready For Action Anytime In Every Place

Monday, October 4th, 2010

For the economically nave and entrepreneurial utopia seekers, this isn’t an article for you. Press that ‘X’ at the top right side of the computer screen and open up a new browser and go to the official Obama page where you’ll get the lies you need in order to feel like your corporate concepts actually have a place in reality.

For those of us who are more comfortable with the truth and understand that the gentle lapping shore is nothing more than a typhoon of lava spinning uncontrollably around you, keep reading. Every second of ever day there is a new crisis that will come to a head via methods by your opposition that is out of bounce and under the belt. They don’t care about your image damage or crumbling client base due to this blatant ‘lie’ or sucker punch aftermath. Your response should be just as dirty and everlasting.

Never allow an individual, client or competitor to get close enough to where they can engage and initiate an offensive but when it happens, you need to take this ‘tap to the chin’ and respond with a sledgehammer to the skull of the opponent. You will need to pummel them from every angle both personally and professionally.

The first thing you need to do is downplay the negative publicity issued by this entity in regards to you or your company. For this you need to take every ounce of legitimacy and industry authority and first call it into question by publicizing concepts that will confuse the public as to the company’s ability to follow through with their claims, next inject cancer into the cell that carries the message attached to this company so that every area of coverage that this company has becomes infected with the message that you put out.

Find out, first about the individual that has taken it upon themselves to publicize their negative opinion about your company, next who is his direct management, who is the executive over this management and next who are their most obvious strategic partners and who is their most critical distribution or sales alliance and finally are they public or a private entity.

With the above information you should chart the entity with a plan for annihilation, this offensive must be quick, strategic, planned to the ‘t’ and without mercy. And finally this devastation must be via third party and as public as possible. The best way to get this done is by calling up localized competitors who have been affected by the market presence of this company and organize them as a regional militia that will infiltrate the entity and follow through on your behalf. To get them to the point of action, show them the advantages of owning the regional market share of this target. Offer them economic supplementation for their efforts. Use an outside social media vendor to help this militia gain the regional advantage and distribution mechanism under their name via your social media vendor. You need to stay in control of the social media distribution so that the information release is timed perfectly.

The attach must encompass the individual personally that initiated this process against your company. Every ounce of legitimacy they have must be called into question and then stamped out of existence so that their presence can’t possibly be perpetuated in the industry by getting another position in this particular niche. Then work your way up the management chain, each time mentioning the initiator that put this into motion.

Corporate crisis management is not a defensive but a war strategy offensive. It’s not an act of ‘reaction’ it’s the act of obscene annihilation that is swift, public and a demonstration to others of what will happen if they try to cross you.

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Corporate Power Brokers – Political Power Brokers – A Power Structure That Works

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

When I go to political functions or functions that claim to have the who’s who in attendance I find it fascinating to stand back and watch people interact. Politicians and power CEOs always stick to surface conversations, upstarts converse while looking over the shoulder of their conversation partner waiting for the opportunity to dump them and move onto someone with more influence. I could watch this interaction for ours and speculate with friends where we believe the targets of our conversation to be in their professional and pedigree evolution.

One thing that these people don’t realize is that those to which they’ve chosen to kneel down and bask beneath glorious rays of influence are typically just pawns with prestigious public labels being controlled by other supremacies. Here are the facts. Upstarts and wannabes will pick the face to an organization (political or corporate) for their association to grow their career and raise their social circle pedigree but the truth is, behind this puppets are those who whisper in the ear, spin webs of control, and sway with their money and ‘real power’.

I have yet to find a true puppet master comfortable to be in the public eye. It is easier to step back and dictate the moves of pawns streamlined by the upstart’s natural instinct to voluntarily be controlled by their betters. Most people, when it comes down to it, are content with the illusion of influence as long as they are the center of the public’s idea of power.

Case study: When I have a client in the process of globalization it is important to get them built into legislation that is being put up for vote. Whether it’s the USA or Europe, I never communicate with the politician directly, that’s a waste of time, instead I go to his handlers. When I say handlers I don’t mean his campaign manager, assistant or any of the traditional ‘blockers’. I go where the money is, because once you find out who funds his campaign with capital and votes, everything is easy from there. Congressmen, Senators, Governors and Mayors of large cities are placed in this position to be a talking head, a willing hand puppet to special interest groups that will flip the bill for the campaign and make sure that the votes are in place to be re-elected, as long as the political figure continue to play ball and stick to the agenda.

To the uninformed and uninitiated, the apex to the pyramid of power is usually represented by the localized face to a political organization (Republican, Democrat etc) but here are three powers that influence everything this individual does. Power is dictated by moneymen, lobbyists and special interest groups. If you have money to donate the most it can get you is a favor or a letter for your kid to get into private school, but the power, the absolute power in politics is social influence and the ability to bring with you, an ocean of voters, turn-key and ready to go. Try to find one conservative republican politician in the south that isn’t backed by the Southern Baptist Convention or Christian Coalition.

The capacity to provide votes and a ’cause’ type following can also be applied to the business world. When we set up strategic alliances, recruit board members or CEOs the main criteria at the end of the day is money and votes defined as: capital raise for previous organizations and the increase of revenues during their time with their previous company. As for ‘votes’, in the corporate world that would be termed ‘alliances’, support that will be turnkey for my client if we take this executive, board member or alliance on. What does their direct contact portfolio look like? Who will they bring through the door that will offer an instant benefit for my client’s company?

Money + alliances = Power. If you are trying to establish yourself as a power broker in the political or corporate realm you don’t need to actually have the money, just access to it. Access can be defined as direct parlay to those who cut the checks and the influence to get them to move when the time is right. Influence, alliances, voters are easy for those who are natural networks. Talk little, do more. Have a plan as to what you are trying to do. Decide what you are trying to influence and build your network from there.

Don’t start from scratch trying to put together a group of followers, instead, lobby the individual organization management or figureheads. Start brokering power among these groups, make introductions but always leave just enough out so that they need to call you when they need something. From here you should be able to build a solid power base of influence.

Don’t come across as too eager. Instead, get to know these individuals in a calm, easy manner, research them before you initiate contact and even your first contact can’t seem intentional (you may want to ‘run into them’ at you’re local tennis club or golf club and strike up some conversation etc.). Then during conversation make a mental note of the topics and their ‘needs’ and from their needs you’ll know how to refer and network them. Ask nothing in return, ever! Instead, the contact and affiliation is all you are trying to accomplish here. Building your organization of influence in this way will rapidly get you where you want to be without the learning curve of catering to the wrong people.

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Customer Service Is Gone -A Sociological Case Study Tells Why

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Have you ever wondered why American customer service and retail service is nothing more than a pathetic joke? Stay with me on this because I think I have finally figured this out. In life there are those that succeed and those who miss the boat. Those who miss the boat typically couldn’t perform in high school therefore couldn’t attend university and when one doesn’t attend college they typically fall deeper and further from the position they once dreamed and soon develop an alter ego to give them the ability to make it through the day without breaking into tears at every turn. This split personality is the one that stems from an inferiority complex and self-hate due to lack of ability to gain a legitimate acceptance with the ‘in’ crowd that they fantasize about. Sadly these people will go from one relationship to another, one fast food or retail job to the next and never make it in life, I have coined this the Ventresca Syndrome and you’ll find out why in a sentences.

I’ve lived in Doylestown, Pennsylvania all my life (a small Philadelphia suburb), did my under grad at PENN with an MBA from Wharton, a majority of the local population comes from a similar pedigree so I say this, not to impress the reader but to set a stage for the money that people have to spend in this locality on premium goods and what is expected in return.

When someone buys a product with a premium price tag they will expect a premium grade service to go along with it yet time and time again we are let down. Why is this? Why is it that customer service and a smile are archaic and obsolete only to be replaced by a social misfit that believes that the money people pay for a service somehow gives them a localized and vicarious (via those buying with money to spend) platform to treat people like dirt?

I believe I have the answer in this unique case study. Imagine a special occasion requiring an outfit that is a little high end, you look in the local yellow pages under ‘Tuxedo’ and ‘Men’s ware’ and you find Ventresca. Here is where our case study begins. This local clothing tailor is the perfect example of a store that locals with money don’t go to but out of town insecure upstarts will … once. It’s a fact: to be snooty and arrogant without substance is ‘pretentious’ and nothing more. Sadly, Ventresca is exactly that type of store. Think about it, you have one in your town. Tell me if I’m painting a picture that is familiar to you. For starters when you walk in, the walls are plastered with ultra-cheesy pinups of has been rappers with those old ‘Kid n’ Play’ haircuts (yes, the eleven inch flat tops) with the Ventresca ‘pimp’ look alike garb to boot. YES! It is as wretched and amusing as it sounds but this isn’t even the worst of it. After you begin to dry-heave from the ‘pimp daddy mac’ decor, you’ll be greeted by ‘Tyrone’ the North Philly homeless guy turned wannabe tailor or one of the other ultra-snooty, socially confused intellectual midgets polluting the storefront.

If anything the regional population should visit this backwards poser shop for a laugh or to see how ‘not’ to run a business. It’s sad to see a small, local business infested with miserable, social misfits who hate what they see when they look in the mirror and live above their means by financing a 1985 BMW at $89 per month with shiny silver painted hubcaps and a fresh wax on faded red paint. It’s even more pathetic if, hypothetically, a customer was to actually buy into the goofy act of lower level trash apartment living halfwits at a place like this; sad and pathetic but absolutely the best laugh you’ll ever have in your life.

Sadly, every town has a Ventresca Limited kind of store where they treat people like trash, insult their customers and somehow, they stay afloat. The moral of this story is that those who underachieve yet want the legitimacy of ‘achievers’ will always be with us. They are the sad incarcerated desolate who one day just gave up on life, the 40 year old clothing retail salesperson trying to be with the in crown yet hopelessly and desolately fails over and over again until they give up and at the end of the day are only qualified to flip burgers at a local fast food joint.

We as a society need to be patient with these underachievers and social cranks. Rehabilitation is possible and we can help them by accepting them for what they are and instead of getting angry, it’s OK to laugh at them (or with them) but don’t waste time and energy in returning the awkward social ignorance of the intellectually inferior and socially unacceptable.

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Economic Debauchery, The Political Profiteer And The Devastation Of The Masses For The Profit Of The Institutional Few

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Yep! Quite a mouthful but let it sink in. The self proclaimed economic elite make rules and mistake that affect all of us, there only accountability is a quick senate hearing where they are interrogated for show and afterwards have champagne and cocktails in chambers and laugh off the comments of the day and plan their future hunting events in the Congo. I don’t find it comical that our domestic economy and power position is rapidly being exchanged for that of the third world or some obscure island nation whose major export is sand and debt.

Don’t you find it interesting that we as a country owe mountains of debt to a privately held organization called the Federal Reserve? Don’t you get angry when you see that the reason for this economic collapse was because the Fed started calling in debt from banks using their fractional reserve system of finance and that they were fully aware of the global repercussions of their actions? If you are losing your home to foreclosure have you taken a closer look at the process in which your bank acquired the funds to loan you the money and where you ticked off when you realized that there was no financial exchange at all only a transfer of numbers on a screen?

It’s time that everyone wakes up. When you have money in a top tier bank whether it’s a CD, savings account, personal checking account, corporate credit or if you have stock in a major bank, you are part of the problem because you are perpetuating the process so that the same establishment can take advantage of your children as they are taking advantage of you right now

Ditch that institutional bank stock and transfer your funds to your local credit union then take your company public or raise capital with a private placement memorandum so that you can help end the cycle of institutional and political economic abuse on our children and our children’s children.

Take the opportunity of capitalization of your corporate stock and offer it to the people. You’ll be eliminating the need for your lender to repossess your assets and creating massive opportunity for your company, employees and the people of this country. Just think about it.

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CEO Positions – CEO Monster – How To Be A Top Rated CEO

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

When my firm goes into a privately held corporation to create strategies for expansion and a solid foundation before initiating the ‘go public’ process the first thing we do is analyze the CEO,CFO and COO professional pedigree and many times the current executives need to step back and allow us to bring in professional ‘C’ level management so that the company can go public, attract investment dollars from accredited and institutional money sources.

To save time we’ll go over the CEO position. This executive will be the public face to the company. They need to remain calm under pressure, respond quickly to critical questions and have a contact portfolio that could choke Godzilla. Within this contact base he/she must be able to create strategic alliances to grow the company’s presence domestically and internationally, take the leadership role to set up pre and post public financial strategies with the CFO and Board of Directors, identify and facilitate acquisitions and mergers to cultivate growth, engage the public via TV, radio and public forums as an industry expert to brand his name, the company name and the trading symbol.

An executive prime for this position will have ample publicity contacts for crisis management and getting the ‘good word’ out about the company’s financial position, new service/product, latest acquisition, newest big contract or distribution source or anything that could trigger trading volume with the stock.

At the end of the day if the company isn’t growing steadily and efficiently and if the company stock isn’t trading at a volume that allows the company to capitalize off of its position, the blame falls on the shoulders of the CEO.

Using the above to initiate the evaluation process of your CEO is a good place to start if you are getting ready to go public or if you are currently public and struggling to grow.

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OTCBB – How To Structure Your Company For Venture Capital Investment

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Business Owners: Build A Corporate Structure That Investors Love! Ok, you’ve decided to go after investment capital but you’re not sure where to start. Here are the basics that you should pay close attention to before putting your company in front of investors.

First and foremost you need to perform an industry analysis that answers the questions pertaining to where you are in the industry and who are your competitors. It doesn’t matter what product or service you offer. You could be selling underwater sock fitting kits and there is a competitor and industry leader somewhere in the world. Don’t be so naive in thinking that there is no competition or that you are at the pinnacle of your industry. Show your audience that you’ve done your research and that you’ve identified the players in your market.

Next get your executive team together and it better be the who’s who in your industry. If you can’t attract the upper echelon of your industry genre then you need to do some serious PR on behalf of your individual executive team to show the public what they are made of. Brand them as the up and coming powerhouse executives in the industry. Publish their articles and knowledge on industry blogs and article submission sites. When a funding source initiates general due diligence you need to shine like a lighthouse in the fog. Each and every executive team member needs to have an image that screams power, success and investor security.

The next thing you need to do is take a serious look at your board of directors. Who is on your board, what is their compensation and is there someone that is a better fit for formulating strategies and alliances than those who are currently populating your director staff.

One of the main reasons that investors turn down companies for funding is because they lack the backup of industry players in connection to strategic alliances. You need to identify and contractually reach out to companies that will enhance your overall business strategy. Your minimum goal should be 10 solid, aged companies that have already branded their names in the marketplace and are willing to add you to their mix of advertising and ongoing strategy and they will expect the same from you. Show investors that it’s not just you treading water in the industrial whirlpool and that you’ve built a life preserver of alliances.

Now you are ready to write a business plan and private placement memorandum that takes all the essential elements above and puts them in two well authored and to the point documents that will make an interesting and informative read for investors who have a track record of investment in your particular industry. If you’ve written your own business plan, toss it. If investors are going to take you seriously you need a professionally written business plan that touches on all the triggers that investors are currently looking for.

Next, it’s best to use the Regulation D, Private Placement Memorandum as the vehicle for staying within SEC guidelines for raising capital and you should use a Direct Public Offering as the process for raising the actual capital. Reaching out to friends, family, industrial counterparts and alliances should be the first place you go for funding. If you are lucky the consultant you hire to assist you with the above processes will have a solid database of investors to assist you in your initial, first round raise via DPO.

Last but not least you should consider, even though it’s not a mandatory requirement for a PPM or DPO, getting an independent audit done on your company to demonstrate an objective analysis of your financial reality so that investors can find their comfort level quicker without a prolonged comments stage.

There you have it. These are the basics to what it takes to achieve equity investment in this current market. Get out there and raise some money!

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