Author Archives: James Scott

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

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. Continue reading

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

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. Continue reading

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Customer Service Is History -A Sociological Case Study Tells Why

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. Continue reading

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Taking A Company Public – PR Propaganda – Investor Relations Power

I remember in college a professor said that, ‘Any publicity is good publicity’. I took that idea with me and tried to apply it early in my career and found the outcome of that concept to be disastrous for a client who was under the same misguided assumption. What university students don’t realize until it’s too late is that instructors teach because they cannot ‘do’. Continue reading

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Going Public – S1 Filing – OTCBB To NADAQ

Click on the TV and you’ll see them, faces like the Joker with ceramic smiles plastered onto their face. Using the name of Jesus and romantic concepts of fighting in wars and existing at deaths door while he fought for his country is the general MO of any politician. But what happens when we enter into the endless tunnels of the rabbit hole where these Jokers exist? Among the cobwebs, rotting carcasses filth is a den where they all congregate. Kissing babies and speaking at the Rotary Club are just strokes of makeup on the faces of these right snatching villains. The reality of how unqualified these professional politicians are should scare the tar out of all of us. Of course we are having issues with our monetary system, the people who are running our government’s finance divisions have a minimal background in the subject. Of course our men and women are dying abroad in wars that we don’t need to be in, the politicians don’t understand what it’s like to lose a child because their kid is in the National Guard on Cape Cod whale watching duty. It’s a joke. Continue reading

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S1 Lawyers – How To Spot The Ones That Will Make Your Nightmares Come True

I deal with S1 attorneys all day every day and most of them are entrepreneurial, hard working and interested in helping you in any way they can but there are also a lot of bad ones out there. If you are taking your company public the last thing you want is a broke as a joke s1 filing agent. Continue reading

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Board Of Directors Jobs – CEO Recruiter – CFO Headhunter – How To Get Top Executive Jobs

If You’re Seeking Board Of Directors, CEO Jobs, CFO Job Offers Or Attention From Executive Recruiters, Here Is What To Do. Obviously people want what they can’t have, it’s written in our genetic code to desire what we don’t have and fight for what seems achievable. Continue reading

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S1 Attorney – S1 Filing – How To Take Your Company Public

I wish I could say that I wasn’t writing this article from experience but that would be a lie. I wish I could say that chemistry is never an issue between the consultant, S1 attorney and newly elected board members but that would be nave. Continue reading

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Micro Cap Funds – Investor Finders – Micro Cap Investing

Where Are All The Good Investor Finder Services? Companies raising capital whether trying to get a loan, raise equity capital with a private placement memorandum or go public on the Pink Sheets, OTCBB or any other platform has no doubt been told to find a good investor finder. Sure there are multitudes of membership databases like ‘Angel Funding Project’, one of the industry’s largest and many others but where are the ‘investor finders’ that everyone’s CPA and CFO are talking about? Continue reading

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How To Go Public – S1 Filing – 15c211 – Form 211 – Turn-Key Strategy For Going Public

For those of you who have reached the point in your company’s evolution where it’s time to take your company public there is often a lot of confusion centering around the services that a corporation needs in order to go public at a solid price, hold it’s position and grow steadily. Continue reading

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Take A Company Public: Survival Of The Fittest

What happens when politicians perpetually fail the people of a nation? What happens when lying, steeling, cheating and other grotesque displays of a primitive mind become mainstream with those who have been elected to govern our nation? Continue reading

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Overseas Expansion – Strategic Expansion

Whether I’m speaking to a group of university students who are under the delusional assumption that they are going to change the world or a group of board members who have just had their butt handed to them by the shareholders or ‘C’ level executives trying to take a regional or domestic corporation global, the crowd is generally the same. Continue reading

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Take Company Public – Investor Relations Domination – OTCBB

Investor relations services: how to truly dominate the public market. If you have a public company or are in the process of taking your company public on the OTCBB or any other reputable exchange the reader must realize that going public is the easy part, having a successful public offering and preserving the longevity of your public entity is another topic all together. As a corporate strategies and public offering facilitator our firm is often called in after a company has a disastrous public offering or they’ve teamed up with the wrong service solutions that pump and dump their equity positions. Continue reading

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Over The Counter Bulletin Board – Make Your Stock Price Soar

I consult in the turnaround sector with public companies on the Pinks, OTCBB, London Exchange, Frankfurt Exchange and every exchange in-between and everyone seems to have the same issue: there stock isn’t trading at the price they desire and they are dying to find a way to fix the problems that are hindering their trade. It usually comes down to a few basic elements. Use each of these elements with caution as this industry is full of predatory organizations and consultants and can be dangerous to amateurs. If you’re a newbie, that’s ok. Do what you can but know when you are in over your head and turn the remaining process over to people that swim with sharks for a living. Continue reading

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Picking A Corporate CPA Or Accountant – It’s More Than Just Numbers

I was recently on a conference call with a new client and their accountant who insisted on meeting with me because he wanted to pre qualify me. After a few questions when I was setting up the call I could tell right away that this accountant was a pure amateur and was trying to look like the ‘big dog’ to his clients, being one who invites and enjoys confrontation I took on the meeting. I love negotiating and debating on topics in which I’m well versed so I knew this would be fun. Continue reading

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Family Guy Political Satire – Funniest Political Jokes

Intellectual midgets and Pee Wee Herman The Congressman; Hell will freeze over before politicians can fix this economy. Continue reading

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OTC Pink Sheets – OTCBB – OTC Bulletin Board

If you are considering going public you are coming from one of two positions: you are either coming from a position of liquidity where you have the capital to spend $200k to go public on the OTCBB or you are coming from a position of weakness and you don’t have liquidity. Continue reading

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Going Public OTCBB: Take A Power Position In Your Industry

Corporate strategies’ consulting is, in its truest essence, a dirty business. Few understand this tiny, yet elite genre of consulting and even fewer are masters of its concepts. The same principles applied by this select faction of specialist should be applied by CEO’s and company executives in all industries. Continue reading

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OTCBB – How To Structure Your Company For Venture Capital Investment

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. Continue reading

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OTC Bulletin Board – Stay Public And Profitable – OTCBB

IPOs and Taking Your Company Public: Why Do Public Companies Fail? There are a few things that one needs to consider when strategizing to take a business public on a major exchange: corporate structure, the speed and efficiency at which the IPO is facilitated, the market creation post public with corporate publicity strategies and investor relations, relationships to secure ongoing financing and finally strategic growth through acquisition. Continue reading

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Global Consulting Firms – Global Expansion Consultants – Take Your Company Public – Change Is Needed

Placid expressions on the faces of the soon to be sacrificed entrepreneurs, “Line up, take a number, politicians are momentarily occupied at the citizen guillotine but they’ll get to you in a moment. Yes, just stand there and wait your turn while the IRS picks your pockets and bankers rape you of your dignity, don’t worry it will all be over soon.” Continue reading

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Over The Counter Bulletin Board – Pure Industry Domination

For many professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners the current reality of their inter company and inter industry promotion and prominence is a far cry from where they originally envisioned themselves to be. What is the factor that thrusts some people and companies forward in the professional sense and why are some straggling behind like desperate, obsolete room size computers in a hand held PC world? Continue reading

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Management Consultants – Global Expansion Consulting Firms – Executive Recruiting – Management Recruiting – A Must Read

Many times companies stand at the threshold of massive stardom but carry the burden of dead weight management that simply take up space and increase salary costs. The company needs to eliminated them and recruit qualified management but there is often an emotional element at play here which makes it difficult to take the garbage out to the curb on trash collection day. Continue reading

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Solar Panel Sales – Solar Panel Sale – Solar Panel Savings – Over The Counter Bulletin Board

Why Are You Taking Your Company Public? Evolve Or Die! As the owner of a corporate consulting firm that takes companies public and steps into public entities with a turnaround team to fix dying companies, there are two realities of corporate strategies that ring true in any and all industries when it comes to creating successful companies and those realities are: few things work and nothing works for long. Evolve or die, the decision is yours. What works today didn’t work ten years ago and won’t work ten years from now. Continue reading

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Why Write A Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) – OTCBB

Why Are You Writing A Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) To Raise Capital? I feel like I have to put this out there as a corporate strategies consultant with a firm that is completely submerged in the industry of authoring business plans, private placement memorandums (regulation d rule 504, 505 and 506), facilitating direct public offerings to our database of investors and taking companies public on the OTCBB. Continue reading

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