Selling Shareholder Offering: The Key To Raising Fast Capital For Pre-Public Companies. As a consultant who has taken many companies public on the OTCBB (Over The Counter Bulletin Boards), consulted on even more and turned around and structured more companies I can even count, there are a few common threads inherent in all of them.
If you’re a stock or bond investor, you most likely have a broker who helps you make decisions and he or she makes a hefty commission for their effort. Most investors don’t know that the brokers ‘research’ and ‘advice’ are simply coming from their 9am meeting where company management told them what stocks to pump, which stocks to dump and how much to advise the clients to sell. In reality this is something that even a rookie investor could do on their own.
Those who are able to achieve higher yields on their investments typically don’t have a broker and don’t listen to the advice of a financial planner. After all, if either of them knew what they were talking about they wouldn’t be hustling others into allowing them to learn the trade game off of other people’s money.
Everyone has heard about a friend of a friend who knew a guy that had a sister who got involved with a company just before they went public, made a small seed investment and when the company went public she made millions.