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| A New Horizon for Small Business |
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Washington, DC: In 1982 Congress
mandated that the Securities Exchange Commission hold an annual conference on
small business capital formation. Now in its 23rd year, that meeting seeks to
address the annual shortfall (resulting from loan rejections from banks -- both
SBA-guaranteed and other types) which some estimate to be over $60B per year.
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| Every year since 1993 we have
challenged most major corporations to invest in the small business education
and insight by sponsoring the show. When they turn us down, we ask, "Well, what
are you doing for your small business suppliers, customers, and distributors?"
In 1998 as a result of discussions with a manager of one of the largest
corporate pension funds in the USA, he answered, "If there were an index of the
top 40,000 small businesses, we would start by investing one percent of our
total into the top 4000 among those businesses." |
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To be a constant challenge to get real about
this index, in 1998 we bought vanity plates for the car, SBINDEX, and bought
the web address as well. Until there is such an index, plus a liquidity model
with an aftermarket to resell these equities, nothing will happen. At the SEC
meetings we discovered that there were many people trying to create some piece
of this very large puzzle. |
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| In February of 2004 at annual
Board of Directors meeting of the US Chamber of Commerce, we met Steve Watkins
of Entrex. He had a different model. Where we had been focusing on Reg D, Rule
504, commonly called the Small Corporate Offering Registration or SCOR, Watkins
sole focus was on qualified investors, particularly those within the
$1-trillion alternative investment market. In April 2006, Small Business School
started a new entity, Private Business Channel, to help facilitate profiles of
businesses that qualified through the Entrex process. |
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When the owners of great, sustainable, small
businesses understand there are real liquidity models, they will be
incentivized to develop their own succession plan, and almost overnight the
most valuable assets within a community would be extended into the future.
Also, banks would be more inclined to work with more earlier-stage small
business to get them on that equity-liquidity path.This early-stage invitation
is to best of private businesses who want to participate in a multi-billion
dollar equity investment fund. We hope that tThis program will be part of a
sustaining fund for television productions about the best small businesses
throughout the USA and the world. |
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| At the
edge of the tranformation of television |
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| $9B for small
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1. $40M for TV: In January 2005 in a
series of Chicago meetings with key investment groups,
SmallBusinessSchool (SBS) was asked, "Could some episodes be produced
for less than $10K?" They wanted to participate in that $40M annual production
budget for up to 4000 local episodes each produced by local airing stations.
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The answer was "Yes." They also wanted to be
global, i.e. "Would you do an episode in Bosnia?" The response, "Yes." These
people expect billions will be invested every day into the best small
businesses. With automated reporting tools on the web and within SEC
guidelines, many more small businesses can accept private equity investment
without the requirements of doing an IPO. Even NASDAQ is interested because
those businesses get on the IPO track.
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2. Transparency. Or, opacity? How easily,
quickly and reliably can people see the real business with real numbers?
Because of the web, it is all possible; and given just that possibility, this
will become a major-major market. Let people help you see deep inside yor
business. |
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3. Online profile to an episode to the
Index. To be selected by one's community is the beginning of a new business
model whereby we recognize the good and we ignore the bad. To date, the media
does just the inverse.
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4. 2005 Goals:
$400M for local stations
plus a
$40M budget for local productions and $5M goal for local sponsorships.
more,
more,
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Optimistic, insightful, creative ... |
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 Creativity is being
unleashed unlike any time in history. Why? What is the special chemistry that
gives us such confidence that we think independently and boldly, often creating
something so radically new it changes our perceptions of everything?
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Making Our Wolrd A
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