Opening Investment in Small Business
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Tracy Myers sold to a publicly-traded company. If you sell, it will be very unlikely that you can get more than three-times earnings. Stephen Watkins, Chairman, Entrex, and one of the nation's leading thinkers about Private Equity investment within small business. Deborah Bortner, Securities Commission, the State of Washington, and one of the nation's experts on the SEC's Small Corporate Offering Registration Chef Thomas Keller started with the key 40 investors, all qualified investors, in an equity transaction. He started in this fashion. Within this program we are only looking at mature business in need of a liquidity model and exit strategy.
XTO began as Cross Timbers Oil and raised over $30M within a day with the help of Robert Rubin. If you are going to become a billion dollar business, an IPO on the NASDAQ can be an option. 125% savings plan, profit-sharing, open book accounting, teaching fiscal responsibility ... these are the foundations of a business with a future. Another on the NASDAQ hit parade. Ms. Freddie Thode, CEO, Hot Dogs On a Stick, an ESOP Company
Equity investments for those within Step 8 --
there are also eight equity/ liquidity models.


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Dallas & Washington, DC: Texas Nameplate was the first small business to be awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (1998) and now they'll receive the award again! Only the Ritz Carlton and Solectron have been so honored. What makes this business so special is that they are every small business. They were on the brink of failure for most of their years, but once a continuous improvement program was put into place, their financials and key ratios got on a trajectory that's taken them to the stars.

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Meet Dale Crownover and his business family. This episode of our television show first aired in 1997, yet the lessons are truly evergreen!
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