In a recent post on IRMagazine.com, Jeffrey Goldberger (KCSA Strategic Communications) shared “Top tips to reduce the micro-cap performance gap“. In the post Goldberger shared these four important rules for all microcap management teams: 1. Embrace who you are – In many ways, microcap companies should not act like large and mega cap public companies. Microcap teams should embrace their unique characteristics
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In this episode of Planet MicroCap Podcast, Robert Kraft spoke with Jacob Ma-Weaver, Portfolio Manager at San Francisco-based investment advisor, Cable Car Capital. When it comes to Ma-Weaver’s MicroCap investing strategy, the focus, and hope, is that management stresses – corporate governance, – avoids badly structured financing vehicles and – stay within compliance. In this episode listeners learn more about
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Guest Post By: Mike Starkweather The term toxic debt gets tossed around regularly in the micro-cap space, and yet most people don’t understand what it means or why a CEO would accept a loan with such volatile terms. First, it is important to understand what the term toxic debt indicates before we can break down how debt becomes toxic and why
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A recent post on CFO.com summarizes the Institute of International Finance’s (IIF) latest capital markets monitor report. According to the IIF’s latest capital markets monitor report, “U.S. Corporates’ Net Debt: An Uneven Burden,” in the last 10 years “U.S. corporations have experienced a deterioration in their ability to pay interest on outstanding debt.” “While leverage has increased across the board
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Toxic debt is a very important topic for microcap professionals but it is seemingly taboo to discuss microcap toxic debt in public (on the internet). There are few reliable sources of information on microcap toxic debt online. We have compiled some of our best content on the topic and will continue to add links to this post as we add more to our website.
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The court found Steven Hicks of Ridgefield, Connecticut, liable on the SEC’s claim that he misappropriated investor funds. The SEC has been actively litigating the case since filing its complaint in 2010 against Hicks and his firms Southridge Capital Management LLC and Southridge Advisors LLC
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Crowdfund Insider recently published an article exploring “The Psychology of Crowdfunding“. The author, Howard Sherman (managing member of Crowdfund Buzz), writes “Far too many people approach crowdfunding with the mentality of a prospector off to the gold mine to make their fortune; they operate under the mistaken notion that all they need to do launch their campaign and immediately start raising money day and
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OTC Markets Group and IR Magazine have teamed up to produce a white paper series on small/micro-cap investor relations. In their third white paper they explore the the pros and cons of four popular microcap financing methods. In this report, OTC Markets examines the pros and cons of common debt and equity financing methods used by microcap companies: – Regulation D Offering
Read moreFinders’ fees are a constant point of confusion for microcap management teams. Securities attorney Laura Anthony an overview of “The Payment Of Finders’ Fees- An Ongoing Discussion” on her blog. In general, finders are still a very grey area of finance. Many agree that finders play an important role in helping small businesses source capital in situations too small for traditional broker-dealers.
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According to the OTC Markets’ small cap survey, 65% of respondents plan to raise capital this year. This is pretty understandable because most small public companies go public to access capital. Of those that plan to raise capital, 83% plan to do so with a PiPE or other private placement. 92% of those that raised capital last year did so with a PiPE
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