You don’t have to be rich to start your own company. In fact, about 17% of all businesses now worth more than $1 million were launched with less than $5,000, according to Wachovia (NYSE: WB), America’s fourth largest bank by assets.



Still, for your company to survive and grow, you need capital. Your savings, credit cards, loans and investments from family and friends can take you only so far.



But in the lingering wake of the dot-com debacle, it’s a particularly tough market out there. "Today, even veteran CEOs are having a hard time raising funds, and what money they do raise comes with a lot of strings attached," said Jill Andresky Fraser, finance editor of Inc magazine.

Venture capitalists have, for the most part, vacated the $500,000 to $5 million-investment range, leaving a huge gap for SBEs that seek an infusion of capital at those levels.



SBA study numbers indicate that more than half (56,000) of the 100,000 small businesses requiring equity capital to execute their business plans are unable to raise what they need through traditional approaches and private sources. And a full-scale, national-level, Independent Public Offering (IPO) is too lengthy and costly for most small businesses, assuming they can even meet all the requirements.



So, what’s the answer?

One answer — an increasingly popular, but less-well-known strategy for financing SME growth — is presented in this white paper:

Forming a Nevada corporation and, with no minimum investment required, bringing your corporation public, raising up to $1 million initially (later you have the prospect of raising more) by means of a Registration-by-Qualification Offering in the state of Nevada, in which you sell unrestricted shares that can generally be sold to any Nevada resident.

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Download the White Paper "The Nevada IPO Alternative for Small Business Entities" for just $129.99.