Everything you need to know about Reverse Shell Mergers by Ralph Amato
Venture Capital
Raising capital for emerging growth companies has never been easy. Most entrepreneurs truly believe they have the next “big idea” and at first believe that venture capitalists (“VC’s”) will beat a path to their door. They soon find out it is very difficult to get someone to listen to them, never [...]
Investment Bankers
Investment Bankers are individuals who represent a company when they are seeking to raise money in the public or private marketplace. Keep in mind investment bankers are working on as many as a dozen different deals at any given time. Many of these firms specialize in certain industries or types of deals [...]
Financing Your Company
There are a multitude of different types of financial structures to fund a deal but, for the most part, today’s deals for OTCBB companies get funded through what is commonly referred to as a PIPE (Private Investment in Public Equity) transaction. There are two common types of PIPE financings. Straight equity (preferable) [...]
Equity Financing
Straight equity is easy enough to figure out. Your company sells restricted common shares of stock at a stated price, usually at a discount to the market, and the investors either get registration rights to sell those shares in 90 to 120 days or they wait the required 12 months to sell their [...]
Convertible Debenture Financing
Convertible Debentures are, in most cases, the kiss of death when it comes to financing for a new company seeking to raise capital. It is a financial structure that can destroy a company if the Officers and Directors do not pay attention to the terms and conditions of the financing. So, [...]
Preparation for Raising Capital
There is not an investment banker that will even consider looking at your deal unless you have three things:
Executive Summary
Business Plan
Power Point presentation
The first thing an investment banker will want to read is your Executive Summary. However, this is the last document you prepare after you have written your Business Plan. [...]
Several people have asked me for a blog entry about executive summaries. Bill Reichert of Garage Technology Ventures http://www.garage.com/about/team.shtml , a seed and early stage venture capital firm, wrote this explanation, and it’s as good as it gets. So pay close attention for this is advise from a guy who has written checks [...]
Business Plan
The first thing that a Company must do prior to raising capital is preparing a comprehensive business plan. Most entrepreneurs loath the time and effort it will take to prepare a proper business plan. But just because you believe you know your business inside and out it does not excuse you from [...]
PowerPoint Presentations
PowerPoint Presentations (“PP”) have become the defacto standard for company’s to present their story to investment bankers, venture capitalists and other funding sources. The reason that funding sources had switched to reading PP is it gives them the ability to review more deals at a quicker pace.
If you want to get a funding [...]
Conclusion
As we have seen getting prepared for presenting your company to the financial community is no small task. There are a multitude of decisions to make prior to assembling the information and providing a proper format for your presentation.
Keep in mind you will be spending close to $1,000,000 for the OTCBB shell and associated [...]
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