I find it to be an universal belief in the small business community that small businesses can't go public until they have significant revenues, say something on the order of $10 to $20 million per year.
This is totally false.
I have been taking Small Businesses and Start-Up companies public as a consultant for over 15 years now. And for 15 years I have been repeatedly asked in different ways " Can a small business like ours elevate capital by going public? We only have a million dollars in revenue. Aren't we very small?"
The answer has been and still is "Of course, you can go public. And no, you are not too small."
What is too small?
Well in fact nothing. A company who is bringing in one million in revenues would be no issue to take public. But it is actually not regarding your revenues, it is about your business ideas. If you are working on a development stage business plan and you are making progress, then we can probably take you public with that alone. If you are making five, ten or twenty thousand a month that is beneficial as it simply shows 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 operations because the SEC and FINRA are rightfully trying to eradicate micro cap fraud, but yes it could still be done. If you have no revenues, however, you will have to have patience, some money in the bank to guarantee you can survive 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 "genuine" company and not just a "sham" set up for micro-cap scam.
If you are a small business and you don't plan to be mom-and-pop forever, then "Going Public" is something you should investigate in the very early stages. "Public" money is usually a lot cheaper as compared to "private" money.
I have seen private companies who feel they are very small to "go public" give up half of their company for a small six figure investment. Sometimes companies with revenues in the millions feel they are too small and taking the venture capital route they raise ten or twenty million but end up with only five to six percent of the company in a few years.
This type of dilution is totally pointless. The same amount of money could be raised by going public while maintaining 60-65% ownership
Of course there are downsides to going public early too, but many of those have to do with being preyed upon by non-professionals, fraudsters, and others who truly don't know what they are doing. If you check out 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 potentially 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 just owns about fourteen percent of Microsoft. Just think how rich he would be if he owned sixty percent!
Now after the "Can I really go public?" sort of questions the next set of questions I generally get are "How do I raise capital when I go public? Do I do a merger reverse? " or " I see ads that say - Buy reverse merger shell - should I do that? " But those are questions for another article. Stay Tuned.
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