I find it to be an universal 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 Start-Up companies public as a consultant for over 15 years now. And for 15 years I have been frequently asked in diverse ways " Can a small business like ours increase 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 too small."
What is too small?
Fine truly nothing. A company who is bringing in one million in revenues would be no issue 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 making progress, then we can probably take you public with that alone. If you are making five, ten or twenty thousand per month that is useful as it simply 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 operations as the SEC and FINRA are legally trying to eradicate micro cap fraud, but yes it could still be accomplished. 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 improvement on your business plan to show the powers that be that you are a "true" company and not just a "sham" set up for micro-cap scam.
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 very early stages. "Public" money is normally a lot economical 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. 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 end up with just five to six percent of the company in some years.
This sort of dilution is totally needless. The similar amount of money could be raised by going public while maintaining 60-65% ownership
Of course there are downsides to going public early also, 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 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 potentially the next EBay or Google or Microsoft sort of company, going public early on without venture capitalist might be worth billions and billions of dollars.
Bill Gates simply owns about fourteen percent of Microsoft. Just think 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 - Buy reverse merger shell - should I do that? " But those are queries for another article. Stay Tuned.
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