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Go Public On Two Exchanges – Cross Listing – Dual Listing Definition

Monday, December 20th, 2010

As part of our expansion we are going to be offering our client base and future clients a dual listing on the OTCBB in the United States and the dominant European exchange, Frankfurt Exchange in Germany.

We have been fielding inquires from clients with one common question, “What is the advantage of two listings?” here is the response from one of our European partners: If the stock price is $1 on the otcbb it is a similar price on the FSE in . The IR campaign would be reflected in that way if you have strong buying in the US and Canada, the European market maker has also to fill the bid. Which means that the stock price will also go up on the FSE. You can attract much more investors and build a bigger shareholder base with the right IR program if you are dual listed. Which means you can attract a much bigger market with the stock. The most common reason for companies to opt for this is the need to list in two different countries. This may happen because of:

A merger of companies listed in different countries or,

A new listing to gain access to capital from a larger market

The second is, typically companies that are already listed in their home country which, as they get bigger, find it useful to have access to the larger amounts of money they can raise in larger markets. In the interests of their existing (home country) shareholders they need to retain their original listing.

Advantages to Investors / Shareholders

As mentioned earlier, the major advantage is that the shareholders can buy and sell shares of both the companies on bourses in the two countries. That means, when a company’s securities are listed on more than one exchange for the purpose of adding liquidity to the shares and allowing investors greater choice in where they can trade their shares. It contributes to the liquidity of the shares listed. This enables investors to have a greater choice as to where and when they can trade their shares. A significant apparent advantage of a dual-listed structure for companies is the benefit of scale and access to foreign capital.

It is not a widely used technique, although it is thought to improve the spread between the ‘bid and ask’ price which helps investors obtain a better price for their securities.

From the shareholders’ perspective they can buy and sell shares of both the companies on the stock exchanges in the two countries.

A structure would also remove the time-consuming requirement for the companies to take regulatory approvals from the various countries in which they operate should they go in for a conventional merger.

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The Power Of One Man Has Transformed The Lives Of Many

Monday, December 20th, 2010

I remember being a teenager in private school. I’d look around on parent day and could see the who’s who in global economics and blue-blood wealth. I didn’t come from money, my father was a teacher at the private school (which shall remain nameless) in which I attended therefore the $20,000 tuition was waved for my education and everyone knew it. I went through school with the elite and was constantly reminded of my minimal financial capacity when these high school seniors would go to Europe for the summer and stay at each others mansions and party day and night.

There was one guy that was level headed enough to spend his summers working for congressmen, senators and lobby power brokers to get the experience to use his exceptional pedigree and make a name for himself. He was always too preoccupied to put others down and when I’d go into the lunch room with no one to sit with he would always grab me by the arm and bring me over to his table which was populated with jocks and snobs and the guys who were considered the ‘in’ crowd, they, just like everyone else in the school worshiped and admired him. He could see that the constant pestering and mockery would get me down and he’d whisper in my ear, ‘hold your chin up, don’t let them know it bothers you’ and I remember one time in eleventh grade he came to my rescue in the locker room with is naturally intimidating presence, the second he walked in all mockery stopped as they all knew I was under his protective wing.

I have always wondered what happened to him. Because of his effect on my life I went through university and achieved a PhD in psychology in my trek to find out what psychological elements are at play when a young man like this can have such precise focus and indefinable presence where his few words and actions can crumble any wall in front of him. I always wanted to thank him for helping me get through school ‘uninjured’. He never expected anything from me he just looked out for me. He wasn’t the biggest guy in school or the coolest but his presence is what set him above and beyond everyone else and his actions and integrity gained him instant respect. When a teacher would try to debate with a student that didn’t do his homework, this guy would step in front of the student and debate on his behalf and believe me his facts and figures were always on the up and up and I never saw him lose a debate with an instructor.

So where would a guy like that be, now 16 years later? I’ve looked around, called the alumni office and was shocked, though I shouldn’t have been, when I found out that James Scott is now the CEO of Princeton Corporate Solutions and is the premier economic adviser to congressmen, senators, kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers. His brilliant mind, intellectual stamina and unbridled integrity paid off and I have to say it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving man.

James, if you are reading this, I want to thank you for being my protective vale in high school. Thank you for giving me a place to sit in lunch and for protecting me from the rich kids who were set on making my life as miserable as possible. Because of you I was motivated to go through university and achieve a PhD in Clinical Psychology and it is my goal to pass on the legacy of emotional protection that you gave me. I don’t know what else to say but thank you.

As I raise my son I constantly refer back to you and your actions as I guide him on becoming a man. Honestly tears rush to my eyes when I think back to how your steady hand guided the fates of so many in our class. We all looked up to you and now look at you, that same gentle yet steady hand is guiding governments and nations as they stand under your protective wing where we once stood. Thank you James, not a day goes by that I don’t think of you and thank God for you.

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Solar Panel Manufacture – Solar Panel India -Over The Counter

Monday, December 20th, 2010

I’ve been involved with more mergers and acquisitions and IPOs than I can even count. I’ve been called many names when I’m getting involved with corporate turnaround consulting but the most common of these terms are: arrogant, cocky and hardheaded. I take these names as a feather in the cap and a notch on the belt because the worst thing that can happen is that a company or board of directors hires a wimp or pushover. Having swagger when walking into a negotiation session or presentation makes all the difference. Refuse to lose and have the contacts to back up your moves.

Solar Panel CEO’s and executives take note…it’s ok to be cocky of you can back it up with performance. My clients love me. The people on the receiving end of my firm’s negotiations hate me (until they hire me on their next project). My hate of losing exceeds my love of winning and I’ll never stop until the clients pull me off of the project or until the transaction is done. This mentality is a must for today’s executive and corporate consultant.

I’m not saying this to impress anyone or to get more business. I’m trying to express to new CEOs of public companies and pre public companies that you have to be fierce. When you step in a room everyone has to feel it. Your presence has to be loathed by some and the epitome of curiosity by others. Keep them guessing.

Demonstrate loyalty to your client and make competitors fear being on the receiving end of your attention and above all, be calculated with your moves and stealthy with your strategy. Don’t speak until you can level the room with what you have to say and understand the reality that for every action there will be a reaction and for every strategic move you make on your clients behalf, there will be countermeasures taken by the opposition.

It’s ok to stay up at night distracted by ideas that will press the throttle peddle on behalf of your client. It’s a forgivable sin to force-feed strategies and alliances to your client that will help them get a competitive edge over their competition. And above all remember this, at the end of the day in global commerce the winning side achieves more than domination but the ability to keep and create jobs and grow through acquisition which creates more jobs and profitability. Arrogance and the refusal to lose is the beginning of this entire process. Get it or get out!

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List of The Industry’s Top 10 Consulting Firms

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Internationally, the top business strategies firms and corporate consulting firms are in the United States yet operate here and abroad. The Top Ten firms when taking into consideration globalization capabilities, governmental client base, regional rebound power, corporate ‘Who’s Who’ client base and overall exposure would easily be McKinsey & Co. based in New York, Bain & Company out of Boston, The Boston Consulting Group, Monitor Co. centralized out of Cambridge, Arthur D. Little, the omnipresent Booz Allen & Hamilton, newcomer Princeton Corporate Solutions a recent transplant to NYC from Philadelphia, Mercer Management Consulting in DC, AT Kearney in lonely Chicago and Mitchell Madison Group, another New York Madison Ave veteran. These companies have their strengths and weaknesses.

One universal strength is that they have unique and targeted niches. They are lean and mean and able to turn on a dime when making a decision. From an employment perspective these companies have more downside than upside. If you’re considering working at any one of these firms expect long hours, seniority rule (last to be hired is the first to go) which works out well for those that can hide behind their desk and duck behind the computer monitor when management comes by to lower the hatchet on the non-performers and rookies.

If you’re looking to hire one of these companies know what sets them apart from other firms and why you are paying the premium for their efforts. The Boston Consulting Group specializes in strategies consulting known for creating matrices and diagrams to clarify issues, Bain stresses that all its strategy recommendations must be immediately useful totally customized around the client, McKinsey & Co is focused mainly on the ‘long term’ strategy that builds traction over time best suited for those experiencing current organic growth and want to maintain it with a plan that will begin to yield scalability results a year or two down the road. (note: McKinsey & Co. is a hiring giant with over 9,000 consultants globally.

Princeton Corporate Solutions is a small firm with massive international exposure to senior governmental officials. Their unique blend of economic/political regional and corporate turnaround has made them one of the most powerful micro-corps on the international scene. (note: it’s pointless to try to engage their HR director for a job because, as difficult as this is to believe, they don’t have a human resource department, if you’re the best in your field of expertise, they’ll find you, spooky.)

Are you an MBA? How’s it feel to have wasted your time? Booz & Co, McKinsey and Princeton Corporate Solutions want real world experience and pedigree as opposed to a hiring decision based off of educational and solely analytical.

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Taking A Company Public – Corporation Preservation Via Competition Control And Deconstruction

Monday, December 20th, 2010

As a structuring consultant I’m typically brought into a public company or large private company that is in the middle of a crisis management situation and I become a fixer. My firm will analyze the problem, look at it from multiple objective angles apply various template processes and find a solution to counter the issue at hand. Sounds easy but guess again.

Here is what most corporations that find themselves the center of a hostile takeover or slander situation fail to identify early on, eliminate the problem early. Many times it starts with the firing of an employee or an overly competitive bid for a large contract both have the same stimulants and indicators so the C level executive in charge needs to keep their ear to the tracks to be able to identify the dilemma before it becomes an ‘out of control’ publicity nightmare or takeover situation.

It is crucial to identify these individuals and align oneself accordingly to cripple the trigger before it can explode. Most of the problems that your company will face are in your office right now in the embodiment of an overzealous sales manager who believes he has the intellectual superiority to run your company better than you can, if he’s right, promote him but test him first, if he’s wrong offer him a severance and paint a clear picture as to his non compete and scare the life out of him the day he is terminated by having security walk him through the legal actions that will take place if he/she makes any attempt to use your processes or secrets to the public or competition or defames your firms name in anyway. Next bring in your corporate attorney to do the same, then you come in as the nice guy and gently ask him to take this severance and find a job that will meet all his needs both professional and emotional.

Other tell tale signs of potential issues an employee that seems to have something counterproductive to say about everything, the manager with a bad case of the ‘grass is greener’ syndrome, executives that are too entrepreneurial, you get the idea.

Next, you need a protocol in place to take a proactive approach to counter negative PR. You should have a media specialist on call, updated on your corporate strategies and proprietary processes with a plan ready to go to counter blog defamation and other virtual crimes that can dismantle your company or economic status/market place position.

90% of the problems your company will ever have will come from those who are inside right now. Evaluate your executives that have access to trade secrets or issues that could damage your reputation. Plant a seed early. Find someone and make an example of them and make it public and you’ll find that most potential and damaging issues can be shut down before they start by implementing the above as a start.

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Pre IPO – Corporate Leadership Program – How To Become A One Man Power Magnet

Monday, December 20th, 2010

In the world of economics and politics there are the influential and the followers. The followers and leaders often believe that they fall into these positions of hierarchy because of knowledge and presents for a particular cause thus, mutual credo chanters follow their lead and there you have it the leaders and the followers but this is anything but accurate.

The reality is much more technical but once you understand the process you can step in and lead just about any cause, campaign or company. The formula for leadership is not necessarily your position on a cause but two things, the conception of your idea on a cause and you as an individual that can embody the hopes and aspirations of those around you which will draw them to you and will eventually become your flock. The key element here is to grow your flock. To do this you need to first find those seeking a leader, find the common thread they all share in seeking a leader and what causes they support.

Many people want to be influential but they freeze up when it comes down to stepping out and taking on the position. Once you’ve identified a group you’ll need to assimilate into this group and start from the top to the bottom on their cause list. Make your presence known. Get on committees and stay close to those who already have a following. Be seen with this person as an insider having serious conversations and don’t forget to laugh. Followers are watching your interaction from afar and the visual element and timing here is crucial.

Most likely these leaders you’ve identified yourself with have polarized themselves and are voluntarily secluded as they’ve reached the limit of their comfort zone and have not journeyed to other groups to build their following, you will be different. As you serve on these committees you will use the influence of these currently micro leaders to immediately gain committed followers on multiple fronts. You’ll build your following based off of the leaders you bring in who have the following and you won’t waste your time with going after the actual individual follower. So to be clear you will be at the top of the food-chain by creating a new position above the current leadership and you’ll be the one with the ultimate power by having the ability to engage multiple groups simultaneously. You’ll be asked by other, less evolved leaders beneath you for introductions to other entity members and leaders. You’re objective here is to make introductions that outwardly seem free and open while you remain in control of the communication between individuals so you don’t find a rival situation on your hands.

Application of this concept would go something like this: join the chamber of commerce, buy a members guide, go to the section that lists the groups and the group leaders, this is where your infiltration will be initiated. Research each leader with a basic Google search, know their likes and dislikes, hobbies and everything about their company and their immediate competition before you even visit the first meeting. Take your time with this as you will never get a second chance to make that first impression. After you’ve don’t your research and feel ready, make sure that your body language speaks volumes by demonstrating confidence and by all means make your knowledge seem passive and off the cuff. Don’t be a close talker, don’t be a know it all and don’t seem overly aggressive as if you have an agenda. If the current leadership feels threatened in any way you’re done, it’s over. You’ll never get a chance to break in and word will spread like wildfire.

Each inside group has an applicable version of the ‘good old boy club’ identify the characteristics of these individuals when you are in the group, apply the knowledge you’ve absorbed in research, throw out some helpful ideas and ease in like an old man in a hot warm bath.

Once you’ve conquered one group, step into the next and the next and soon you’ll run into others at the same level as you and from their you’ll pick a leader that you can control and use your circle of influence to get your agenda out their based off of the exceptional pedigree of the individual demonstrating a willingness to be controlled in order to feel and put up the illusion that he is the one in control.

There’s a lot to swallow here but read this a few times and let it sink in and by that time we’ll have the second article out to take you from here to the next strategy to claim your position at the top.

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CEO Job Search – CEO Jobs – Here Is How To Find Top Talen

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

When my firm goes into a privately held corporation to create strategies for expansion and a solid foundation before initiating the ‘go public’ process the first thing we do is analyze the CEO,CFO and COO professional pedigree and many times the current executives need to step back and allow us to bring in professional ‘C’ level management so that the company can go public, attract investment dollars from accredited and institutional money sources.

To save time we’ll go over the CEO position. This executive will be the public face to the company. They need to remain calm under pressure, respond quickly to critical questions and have a contact portfolio that could choke Godzilla. Within this contact base he/she must be able to create strategic alliances to grow the company’s presence domestically and internationally, take the leadership role to set up pre and post public financial strategies with the CFO and Board of Directors, identify and facilitate acquisitions and mergers to cultivate growth, engage the public via TV, radio and public forums as an industry expert to brand his name, the company name and the trading symbol.

An executive prime for this position will have ample publicity contacts for crisis management and getting the ‘good word’ out about the company’s financial position, new service/product, latest acquisition, newest big contract or distribution source or anything that could trigger trading volume with the stock.

At the end of the day if the company isn’t growing steadily and efficiently and if the company stock isn’t trading at a volume that allows the company to capitalize off of its position, the blame falls on the shoulders of the CEO.

Using the above to initiate the evaluation process of your CEO is a good place to start if you are getting ready to go public or if you are currently public and struggling to grow.

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Take A Business Public Correctly – Now Success Can Be Yours

Saturday, December 11th, 2010

Success in business is composed of many factors.

A public corporation, just as a private company is composed of several contributing factors that dictate the outcome of its success. If you visualize your corporate entity as the ‘hub’ of the wheel and each spoke as a ‘contributing asset’ to the company you’ll find that the more spokes in the wheel, the more weight the wheel can carry as its strength rests on scores of unified connections working together, each with one simultaneous point of interest, the hub.

These hub connections can be anything that contributes to the overall success and perpetual, yet controlled, growth strategy of the company such as: a dozen strategic partnerships that act as growing distribution channels for your product or service, finance alliances that take care of your growth capital needs, multiple legal professionals that you can tap into for advise and corporate strategies, dozens of companies within your industry that focus on a different element of the industry but cooperate as a referral source for new business and on and on.

Your goal, in creating a solid, strategically aligned pre public and post public corporation is to keep building spokes and bringing on partners and executives that can instantly contribute to adding more strategic alliances and growth enhancers to your ever evolving and emerging corporate wheel.

If you are a public company, partnerships that you should have heavily represented in your model should be securities attorneys, market makers and broker dealers, several publicists with different areas of media focus, viral publicists, investor relations facilitators and service providers etc. Don’t forget the political contacts and padding contacts. By ‘padding’ I mean contacts that may serve no active role other than having some big names affiliated with your company that can gain attention within and outside your specific industry genre.

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Global Expansion – Taking A Company Public – Who Should Proceed And Who Should Give It Up

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

If you’re reading this you are most likely contemplating the possibility of going public or taking your public company global for distribution expansion. While your intentions may be in the right place your company may not be in a position for these types of growth.

Let’s look at going public. I get calls daily from companies and startups with products ranging from a new shoelace that is going to revolutionize the sneaker industry to underwater gimp costume sowing instructional videos and sometimes, I mean very rarely will I get a cold call from a client that will actually succeed in going public and sustaining a public entity post IPO. Unless you have profits, limited liability and real distribution and scalability, you have nothing at all. Ideas come and go and very few concepts are so revolutionary that they can Google-ize and industry.

Your industry is actually secondary but the reality is that it should be as ‘recession proof’ as possible. I know what you’re thinking, nothing is recession proof and yes you are partially correct. But your corporation should still be able to operate during a recession and still bring in, no matter how slim, profits during hard times. This is how you will be able to bring in securities back PIPE loans and LOC’s when your stock is trading in minimal volume. I could go on about this point for pages upon pages but I only have 400 words to get my point across so I’ll move on.

Globalization is an endeavor that should only be taken on once you’ve conquered your own backyard. When you’ve truly dominated your competition in one region you should facilitate and supplement your growth by using your public stock as collateral for controlled liquidation if you go delinquent. Don’t liquidate shares onto the market in order to raise capital for that expansion to China or Japan. Your company should be able to use is liquid proceeds above and beyond operational costs for this growth and at a worst case you would collateralize assets or securities to come up with the rest of the cash needed.

Most companies that see greener pastures in another country are still two years too early for the expansion. Get an opinion from your corporate and legal advisors then go to your board, bring it to a vote then if the expansion is approved you should bring on a consultant to iron out the kinks and use their contact base to help you grow with as few bumps in the road as possible.

At the end of the day you should bring on the right people who are completely submerged in the IPO and globalization industry to help guide you during the above processes. If you feel you are ready have a meeting with your C level group of executives and write down the pros and cons for going public or expanding and if the pros out weight the cons, find yourself a turnkey consulting firm and take it from there.

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Institutional Bankers Political Blood Letting and The Demons Beneath Your Bed: It’s More Real Than You Think

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Think back to when you were a child and your imagination was developing? You’d hear a bump from your closet or your eyes would play tricks on you as you swore you could see something slithering under your bed when the hallway light was turned off or when you’d creep, with back to the wall to the bathroom in the middle of the night and you could feel the energy of something staring at you from the opposite end of the hall’s expanse, you look up and sure enough you’d see a cast shadow made visible by the glow of a full moon peering through the window.

These recollections make us laugh as we mature and realize that is a perfectly straight forward reason for that shadow or rattling pipe etc. But this day in age it’s no longer the spooky ‘Scooby Doo’ style ghosts and goblins that haunt the dreams of our children. Instead, it’s the reality of state Marshals and Cops breaking into their home in the middle of the night to enforce a foreclosure eviction or a politician signing a bill that will strip them of their rights or the reality that when they get out of college they will immediately have a multi trillion dollar bill to pay because of today’s liberal welfare and social security misspending by politician snakes that slither around their room at night just waiting for the right time, when their guard is down, to strike.

The nightmare for our children is no longer a figment of an overgrown imagination. It’s all too real. How can we bring that innocence back into the dream space of our youth? For starters, take control of your career, step away from large corporations and get involved with the entrepreneurial small and medium size businesses in strong growth industry such as: alternative energy, technology, global distribution facilitation etc. If you are a business owner, don’t hook up an IV to the arm of your infant and sell your soul to the devil by taking a loan to grow your business. Institutional lenders backed by crooked and unqualified politicians will see to it that your company can not meet the terms and your business expansion loan will go delinquent and the IV will star sucking the life out of your offspring and all the gifts of a profitable company yielding a good college education, comfortable transition from university into a career, help with a down payment on a home and other competitive advantages that you want to provide and that your children deserve will go up in smoke while the fat cat politicians and institutional lenders laugh at you and move on to the next easy prey.

Stop and think before you fill out that bank loan application. Don’t put up your home as collateral for a business loan. Don’t take away from your children what should be theirs. Instead, do what the wealthy do, grow your company by creating opportunity for others to make money off of your business concept and track record. Even if you’re a small business making $2M per year, you can take your company public on the OTCBB. The OTCBB (Over The Counter Bulletin Board) is the spring board toward the possibility of a NASDAQ qualification but not necessarily a mandatory move to grow your company. The OTCBB is a trusted, solid exchange with respectable and consistent trading volume where you have access to all the growth capabilities of the industry big boys. You can cross collateralize your securities so you don’t have to personally sign for loans, you can purchase companies to grow quickly using your stock as currency. Bring on prize executives to help you grow your company by offering them stock in the company as they reach certain benchmark goals.

Step away from government lies that will damage the future of your children and banking contracts that will almost surely crucify your company as it’s slowly sucked into Hades like a diamond sinking into a bubbling tar pit. Take your company public and take advantage of the massive success that you truly deserve.

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