{"id":1557,"date":"2009-12-19T14:31:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T09:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2009-12-19T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T09:01:57","slug":"exit-strategies-for-public-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niftylivecharts.com\/blog\/exit-strategies-for-public-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Exit Strategies for Public Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Exit Strategies for Public Companies<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">There are three ways that public company insiders can convert their<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">equity into cash.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">1. They can sell their stock to the public. This is the goal of the<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">insiders in most OTCBB and Nasdaq Small Cap Companies. It&#8217;s summarized in the axiom &#8220;Pump &amp; Dump.&#8221; The stock is promoted as the insiders sell their shares into the public buying.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">The SEC has spent 60 years trying to stop this practice. We have<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">insider trading rules that ban it. Yet, the insiders&#8217; goal, in over 80% of<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">the OTCBB companies, is to dump their stock on the public.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">This strategy is unprofitable for the promoters. It&#8217;s not that the<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">promoters face undue risk from an SEC investigation. The odds of a high<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">flying turkey being investigated are about one-in-ten. The profits for<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">insiders in &#8220;Pump &amp; Dump&#8221; schemes are small.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">It costs money to promote stock. The insiders illegally pay outside<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">promoters with part of their free-trading shares. The average &#8220;Pump &amp; Dump&#8221; company insider nets less than $150,000 from the stock promotion.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">For example, the Canadian media believes the Bre-X Scandal was the<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">biggest mining stock scam in history. These newspapers reported that only<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">one insider made more than a million dollars from it.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">2. The insiders can create an industry giant. It will qualify to<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">trade on the New York Stock Exchange. The insiders and their heirs can live<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">off their dividends and the occasional sale of a few shares of their stock.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">This is the Capitalist ideal. The insiders will retire multimillionaires.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">Since 1945, a few companies, like Microsoft or Apple, have made<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">this journey to success in less than a decade. For most companies, it&#8217;ll<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">take them a lifetime to reach their goal. The insiders of these companies<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">have better odds of success in Las Vegas. This appears to be the<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">&#8220;Impossible Dream&#8221; of about 5% of the companies trading on the OTCBB.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">3. The insiders can groom their public company as a takeover target<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">for an industry giant. Our spinoff test insiders are creating a<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">multi-dollar share price to allow them to fund their company. The equity<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">cash infusion will be converted into cash-producing business income. The<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">strong share price will be used to acquire cash-producing assets. In five<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">to seven years, the company should have a hundred million dollars in<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">assets. An industry giant will buy the public company based upon its share<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">price. The insiders will retire multimillionaires.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">The odds of arranging a merger are better than the odds of creating<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">an industry giant. It takes less than ten years to become the perfect<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">merger candidate. It usually takes over 20 years to become an industry<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">giant. It makes sense to strive to be a merger candidate.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">In ten years, a promoter can run about four &#8220;Pump &amp; Dump&#8221; public<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">companies. These promotions could earn the promoter about a half-million<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">dollars. The promoter could create one real company and groom it as a<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">merger candidate. In ten years, the promoter can walk away as a<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">multimillionaire.<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">The most profitable strategy in going public is to build a company<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">and seek a friendly merger. It&#8217;s this group of merger oriented<\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">entrepreneurs that I want to help.<\/div>\n<p>There are three ways that public company insiders can convert their\u00a0equity into cash.<\/p>\n<p>1. They can sell their stock to the public. This is the goal of the\u00a0insiders in most OTCBB and Nasdaq Small Cap Companies. It&#8217;s summarized in the axiom &#8220;Pump &amp; Dump.&#8221; The stock is promoted as the insiders sell their shares into the public buying.\u00a0The SEC has spent 60 years trying to stop this practice. We have\u00a0insider trading rules that ban it. Yet, the insiders&#8217; goal, in over 80% of\u00a0the OTCBB companies, is to dump their stock on the public.\u00a0This strategy is unprofitable for the promoters. It&#8217;s not that the\u00a0promoters face undue risk from an SEC investigation. The odds of a high\u00a0flying turkey being investigated are about one-in-ten. The profits foinsiders in &#8220;Pump &amp; Dump&#8221; schemes are small.\u00a0It costs money to promote stock. The insiders illegally pay outside\u00a0promoters with part of their free-trading shares. The average &#8220;Pump &amp; Dump&#8221; company insider nets less than $150,000 from the stock promotion.<\/p>\n<p>2. The insiders can create an industry giant. It will qualify to\u00a0trade on the \u00a0Stock Exchange. The insiders and their heirs can live\u00a0off their dividends and the occasional sale of a few shares of their stock.\u00a0This is the Capitalist ideal. The insiders will retire multimillionaires.<\/p>\n<p>3. The insiders can groom their public company as a takeover target\u00a0for an industry giant. Our spinoff test insiders are creating a\u00a0multi-dollar share price to allow them to fund their company. The equity\u00a0cash infusion will be converted into cash-producing business income. 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