Is It Viable That A Small Business Can Go Public?

I noticed that it is a common belief in the small business community that small businesses can't go public until they have noteworthy revenues, say something on the order of $10 to $20 million a year.

This is totally false.

I have been taking Small Businesses and Introduced companies public as a consultant for over 15 years now. And for 15 years I have been repeatedly asked in diverse ways " Can a small business similar to ours raise capital by going public? We just have a million dollars in revenue. Aren't we too small?"

The answer has been and still is "Yes, you can go public. And no, you are not very small."

What is too small?

Well truly nothing. An organization who is bringing in one million in revenues would be no problem to take public. But it is in fact not about your revenues, it is about your business plan. If you are working on a development stage business plan and you are achieving success, then we can probably take you public with that alone. If you are making five, ten or twenty thousand a month that is useful since it just indicates that you are executing on your business plan.

It has become harder and harder to take a company public with no revenue and no business maneuver because the SEC and FINRA are rightfully trying to eradicate micro cap scam, but yes it can still be accomplished. If you have no revenues, however, you will have to have patience, some money in the bank to guarantee you can live for a couple of years, and you will have to be making genuine progress on your business plan to show the powers that be that you are a "true" company and not only a "sham" set up for micro-cap fraud.

If you are a small business and you don't think to be mom-and-pop forever, then "Going Public" is something you should look into in the quite early stages. "Public" money is usually a lot cheaper as compared to "private" money.

I have noticed private companies who feel they are too small to "go public" give up half of their company for a small six figure investment. At times companies with revenues in the millions feel they are too small and taking the venture capital route they raise ten or twenty million but finish with only five to six percent of the company in a few years.

This sort of dilution is entirely unnecessary. The similar amount of money could be raised by going public while maintaining 60-65% ownership

Obviously there are downsides to going public early too, but many of those have to do with being preyed upon by non-professionals, swindlers, and others who really don't know what they are doing. If you look into your advisers and get advice and structuring and referrals from professionals who know what they are doing, you can eliminate most of the downside of going public early.

And if you feel you are probably the next EBay or Google or Microsoft type of company, going public early on without venture capitalist could be worth billions and billions of dollars.

Bill Gates simply owns nearly fourteen percent of Microsoft. Imagine how rich he would be if he owned sixty percent!

Now after the "Can I truly go public?" type of questions the next set of questions I usually get are "How do I raise capital when I go public? Do I do a merger reverse? " or " I see ads that say - Purchase reverse merger shell - should I do that? " But those are questions for another article. Stay Tuned.

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