You’ve decided to take the plunge and take your company public! You call your lawyer, talk to a couple of friends and advisors, and start the filing process. You look at the paperwork and think, “We can get this all filed in about 60 days. Then we can start raising some serious money!”

Did you catch the potentially fatal error in that statement?
It’s the most common one entrepreneurs make when planning to go public: underestimating the amount of time the whole process takes. Once you get into the SEC comment period, it’s not unusual to spend 6 months to a year and half going back and forth.

I’ve seen this mistake take good companies down. They capped out their private funding and had a group of investors waiting to sign the check as soon as the application cleared. And they ran out of capital before the SEC could act. Their tanks emptied. They went operationally bottom up.

Because they didn’t have realistic expectations, they didn’t set aside enough cash reserves to endure the entire process.
And that’s just one of the business-killer mistakes I see entrepreneurs make as they seek that prestigious and advantageous ticker symbol.

I’ve been through the process dozens of times. I've seen just about every time-wasting and application-killing mistake that can be made as companies try to go public. Based on this experience, I wrote a White Paper for my clients, called "8 Tips to Speed the Process of Going Public."

The paper reveals:

• 8 specific, actionable tips to speed the process of going public
  
• The common misperception of your company's role that can delay or even scuttle the entire process of filing an IPO
  
• What to do when information requested by the SEC isn't in your business plan
  
• The SEC's most important consideration
  
• How to navigate the fine line between "trade secrets" and public record information
  
• The biggest mistake companies make when they start completing SEC questionnaires
  
• A strategy for completing all filings on a timely basis
  
• How to manage the "team" (accountants, Market Maker, lawyer, SEC specialist, etc.) to make sure everything gets done properly
  
• What knowledge and experience you can outsource, and what you must know how to do yourself (otherwise, staying public gets real expensive and difficult)
  
• How to avoid long and frustrating delays by scheduling quarterly reviews strategically
  
• How to identify and deal with potential problems before they sink your IPO
  
• A comprehensive "Job Description" that lists every single task, in order, that the company must complete in order to file a successful IPO

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