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Work Your Way to Trading on the NASDAQ or AMEX - A stepping-stone approach to capital market participation.  more...

The Nevada IPO Alternative for Small and Medium Enterprises - Registration by Qualification as a capital raising alternative.  more...

Pro Travel Network Brings Business to Nevada - One company's success story is a win-win for Nevada.  more...
Reverse Split
Many companies trading on the OTCBB or Pink Sheets have used reverse stock splits. This financial st...
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The Affordable IPO Alternative
"Going Public doesn't have to mean Going Broke."
Smaller businesses w...
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Business Plan Development Guide
Are you playing the funding game with prospective investors? Then you know the routine: Presentatio...
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10-KSB Development Questionnaire
The annual 10-KSB filing is required to contain more detailed information than your quarterly 10-QSB...
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Due Diligence List
Considering a transaction: joint venture, merger, acquisition, investment in a subsidiary, etc.? Bef...
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Developing Financial Projections
You’re sitting in a meeting with investors eager to hear your pitch. You’ve got great industry exper...
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Equity Buy-Backs
Buy-back is a term which may not be clear to small company management or shareholders of significan...
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Separation & Release
As a business owner or Human Resources Manager, you have decided to make some personnel changes. How...
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Convertible Promissory Note
If your firm is involved in a situation requiring a Note Purchase Agreement, do you know the standar...
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Market Makers
Market Makers are keenly aware that their firm uses its own capital, research, retail and/or systems...
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10b5 Plan
Insider trading prohibitions restrict executives and other insiders of public companies from trading...
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Rule 13D
Rules governing Filing of Particular Schedules relevant to beneficial ownership....
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Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
This four page document addresses managing the business, technology, development, marketing and fina...
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The OTCBB – What it is, How it Works, and Why you Should be on it
What is the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board?
The Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB)...
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Lock Up Agreement
If you are involved in any capital structure evaluation or recapitalization effort or contemplating...
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Note Purchase Agreement
If you are selling your company or contemplating buying all or a piece of another, the 11-page ample...
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Analysis of Financial Statements
As a business owner or shareholder you constantly evaluate your firm's financials to determine the o...
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Valuation Techniques
If you're trying to grow your company, you're facing a lot of questions about your company's value. ...
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S-8 Incentive Compensation
Small public companies need to conserve cash to fuel their growth; they tend to avoid compensation p...
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Board of Directors Analysis
The NASD will implement new Rules in the next year which will require outside board membership in or...
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Numbers Don't Lie: What Financial Statements Really Say About a Company
As you move forward with the sale of your business, prospective buyers will primarily focus on your ...
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Advisory Team
You've devoted countless hours, untold amounts of energy, and a great deal of money to building and ...
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Maximizing the Price When Selling a Company
The art of negotiation plays a pivotal role in buying or selling a business. Differences of opinion...
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Merger & Acquisition Process
Selling your business will probably be the largest and most important transaction with which you are...
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The Nevada Advantage
Building a business from scratch is a tough job. As the pundits have quipped in the past, you'll wor...
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Pricing Your Company for Sale
Your prospective buyer has scrutinized your financials and you now find yourself sitting across from...
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The 'Hows' and 'Whys' of Structuring M&A Transactions
After countless hours of mulling through financial statements and bargaining for every penny your bu...
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Good Reasons to Sell a Great Company
Given the ever changing dynamics in a global economy, and daunting industry trends, some owners are ...
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How to Research Your Management or Director’s Background
With the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act publicly traded companies have faced much more scrutiny. ...
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Naked Short Selling
While NASD Rule 3350, “The Short Rule”, protects stock issues by prohibiting short sales on a down b...
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Interest on Stock Certificates
This brief but significant white paper of three pages covers a relatively new aspect of the money ma...
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Convertible Securities - Death Spiral?
“Death spiral convertibles” have increasingly become a more popular form of financing for cash-stra...
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Equity Research Efficiency
Quality analyst coverage gives investors detailed information about a company and builds their confi...
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A Chancery Court for Nevada: Definition, Costs, and Benefits
The paper defines how a chancery court differs from a common law court and from business courts, and...
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SEC Filing Schedule
All fully reporting public companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statem...
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Business Combination Accounting
This is a 21 p age PowerPoint overview of accounting acquisition nuances including:
The acquisi...
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Included in this three-page white paper are some HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 which ...
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Officers & Directors Disclosure
For a basic overview of rules and regulations, disclosure laws, insiders and their SEC regulations –...
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NASDAQ / AMEX Comparison
The OTC Bulletin Board is a quotation service that displays real-time quotes, last-sale prices, and ...
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D&O Insurance
The escalation in the number of lawsuits already has driven premiums on D&O insurance up, and the ne...
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Independent Director
This paper provides information on topics which are of interest and importance to non-executive dire...
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Going Private: How does it work?
Most going private transactions are financed with borrowings banks or other institutions. In the typ...
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Public to Private: Current Market Trends
The number of public companies calling it quits and going private is increasing, just as the number ...
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Foreign Issuer BOD & SOX Compliance
When the Securities and Exchange Commission applied Reg FD to domestic companies only, the internati...
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Deregistration: Form 15
Notwithstanding the increased liability to officers under recent legislation, companies may elect to...
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The Spin Zone
Spin-offs occur very frequently for a reason. They can unlock substantial value for shareholders of ...
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Rule 144A: The Basics
Rule 144A provides a practical alternative for foreign companies desiring to raise capital in the US...
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Sarbanes-Oxley: A Brush Stroke
With the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the landscape for public companies as well as ac...
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Hart Scott Changes Impact FPIs
The Federal Trade Commission has recently changed the exemption rules for foreign issuers. The rule...
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Capitalization Process and Model
The purpose of this 6-page memorandum is to help officers, directors, and other managers interested ...
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Reverse Mergers: Pitfalls and Alternatives
Many middle-market businesses ($1 million-$25 million) have used reverse mergers as a perceived low-...
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Cross Border IPOs
When a foreign company decides to expand its horizons and wants to go public in the United States, t...
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Research Effects on Community Bank Price Coverage
Banking managers investing in analyst coverage to benefit shareholders expect results but does it wo...
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Financial Techniques to Raise Capital
Companies that successfully raise capital most likely do so after completing a written business plan...
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Executive Responsibility
In July 2002, President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into law. Due in large part to unethica...
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Management Discussion and Analysis
The Management Discussion and Analysis (“MD&A”) section of quarterly and annual financial statements...
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8 Tips To Speed the Process of Going Public
You’ve decided to take the plunge and take your company public! You call your lawyer, talk to a coup...
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Investor and Shareholder Protection
It is a myth that shareholders can do little to mitigate their risk other than diversifying their po...
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Code of Ethics and Audit Committee Requirements
Within the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (the “Act”) of 2002, Sections 406 and 407 lay out new requirements reg...
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Auditor and Director Independence per the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
As a result of increasing accounting and auditing fraud, the SEC has stated that the current supervi...
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Regulation S
Reg. S is a complex set of regulations and should only be used when advised by counsel with signific...
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New Rulings Pertaining to Items 11 and 12 of Form 8-K
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a new ruling regarding the filing of information w...
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Certification Rule 302
With the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (the “Act”) came many rules and revisions to rules that w...
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American Depository Receipts
An American Depository Receipt, or “ADR,” is a form of equity ownership of a non-U.S. company. It i...
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Trading OTCBB: Understanding the Landscape
In connection with the SEC's approval of NASD Rule 6540 allowing ECNs/ATSs to display their best bid...
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The Proxy Process
In July of 2003, the SEC announced that the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance had release...
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What is the “E” All About
Have you ever seen a Ticker Symbol with more than four characters? Wondered what that fifth letter ...
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Avoiding Business Plan Mistakes
Dear Entrepreneur, Are you playing the funding game with prospective investors? Then you know th...
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How Can My Company Trade on the US Markets?
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) imposes a significantly reduced regulator...
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Primer on Pricings of IPO’s
The intended result of this 13 page white paper is to briefly outline the IPO process and to enhance...
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State Blue Sky Issues
The Standard & Poor's Market Access Program ensures that key information about a company is always a...
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Asset Protection
Thousands of lawsuits are filed in this country every day of the week. If you are engaged in any bu...
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Requiring Small Businesses to Expense Stock Options
When large corporate scandals such as Enron and WorldCom were publicized in 2001, a great deal of ne...
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Management Bandwidth for the IPO
Are you thinking about taking your company public? If so, this is required reading for every member...
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Job Ain’t Over Til The Paperwork is Done
Every company leaves a paper trail. It’s either a happy trail leading to a land filled with milk an...
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Preparing to Operate in “Stealth” Mode
To operate with stealth means maintaining a low profile – giving no signal as to what your company i...
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Metrics: Non-numerical Critical Success Factors in Pre-public Companies
When taking a private company to the public, it’s often not what management says about the numbers b...
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The Best Offense is a Good Defense: Due Diligence Defense
The landscape for private companies is so radically different than that of the public arena. Compan...
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Rules, Rules: To Err is Human; to Forgive, Divine -- Not Characteristic of Regulators.
Before the lights on the marquee start flickering, companies really need to assess the projected cos...
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Financing with Venture Capital: Seller Beware
Why Venture Cap can be a Venture Trap
In some ways it’s even easier to launch a business...
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Employee Benefits - Stock Options & Incentive Plans
Equity compensa-tion (e.g., stock options) allows companies to leverage powerful financial incentive...
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Negotiating and Closing
Negotiation and closing are critical business skills, and central to the SB-2 process - yet, many o...
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Overview of the M&A Process
Bank of America has done it. Donald Trump has too. So, too, have thousands of other companies. In fa...
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Pitching a VC
This white paper will lay the foundation for entrepreneurs and small and medium companies with to di...
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Acquisition Financing
Selecting the sources of debt and equity financing for a potential acquisition is a critical step. T...
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Bridge Over Troubled Water: The in’s and out’s of Bridge Loans
Bridge financing often is perceived to be a viaduct to victory valley when in fact it’s a direct rou...
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Profit vs. Cash Flow: Healthy profits but anemic – Diagnosis is money squeeze.
Having adequate cash flow is essential to keep a business running. If your company runs out of avail...
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Think Like a Banker -- Collateral Assessment
Collateral is needed in order to obtain financial loans from banks as well as other debt nstrments f...
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Getting Prepared for the Emotional Rollercoaster of Going Public
Much has been written on the legal and technical side of going public. This paper does not intend t...
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Preferred Stock
In the quest for understanding the value of corporate USA, the journey to determine value will event...
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Tender Offers
The scope of Regulation 14E [Rules 14e-1 to 14f-1] was created to assist in providing legal paramete...
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The Realities of the Google IPO
The portrait of Google by any estimation is one of American enterprise and ingenuity at its finest. ...
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Financial Fraud: Big League vs. Little League
History and each endeavor by man must balance the diabolical with the divine. There exists a common ...
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The Corporate Compliance Package
Now more than ever, public companies are scrambling to makes sense of the issues that confront them ...
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How can the OTCBB be used as a Stepping Stone to the AMEX and NASDAQ?
There are two trading systems that are separate from the National Market: the Over the Counter Bulle...
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SOX 404: A Primer
You have probably heard a lot about The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, legislation passed in 2002 to strengthen...
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SOX 301 & OTC Stocks: A Look at SOX for Small Businesses
Section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 addresses the board of directors’ audit committee spec...
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SOX 404 and the Small Company: Planning for Compliance