Smooth Sailing for a Successful IPO: Finance & Legal Tips for Going Public and Being Newly Public
IPO -- Going Public - Two Businesses
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Disclaimer
This is not legal or investment advice of any kind
Seek competent advice from qualified attorneys and investment bankers
Your situation may vary
The more you know about finance and business, the more you can profit
Your Core Business
You are in your core business, and as you are
expert in it, you have the
potential to grow fast
Most Important Business
You sell your product and
services and that is your first and most important
business
Need Capital
If your company is growing fast, it needs more capital to keep
expanding, don't you agree?
Your Second Business
Thus, you find yourself in your second business – the business
of selling securities
Your New Business
It is likely that you have little or no training, expertise or
experience in this business
Key to Your Success
Yet the business of marketing
securities is key to the success of
your core business, isn't
it?
Your Competitors
Your competitors will stomp you into the ground
if they have strong funding and you do not
Established Relationships
Without established
relationships with the right players, you
could lose much
Maximize Valuation
You will want them to position
you for the maximum
valuation and the minimum
dilution
Position for Maximum Valuation
Good positioning can increase
your valuation buy tens of millions of
dollars
Pre - Revenue
If you are pre-revenue, you
face exceptional challenges in
making investors
believe in your dream
The Team
You will need to find market makers, an
accountant who will deliver, a
transfer agent, a hot investor
relations firm