Use the Chapters list below to select the part of the video you want to watch.
Chapters:
- The importance of a large fan/customer base
- How to draw in investors with early marketing? (early cost)
- Second-month marketing adjustments
- Marketing & advertising expenses - ratios
- Turning cashflow positive
- About problem States
- Regulation A+ Timeline and service providers
Timeline Schedule for a typical Reg A+ offering
Step 1 Select a marketing agency that will manage your 360° marketing campaign. We will introduce you to experienced marketing agencies. If the company's consumer appeal is not clear, we may recommend doing a RegA+Audition(TM) prior to the offering.
Step 2a The company decides if to use an underwriter/broker-dealer.
Step 2b MSC introduces the company to Auditor with experience in Reg A+. The company selects, contracts, with the auditor and gets the audit underway. This item is critical path because the initial SEC filing cannot be started until the two-year audit is complete. Audit duration will depend on the structure and how new the company is. ~15 to 90 days likely.
Step 2c Audit underway, sign up marketing agency and legal service provider, they start preparation. Legal service gathers documents from you and begins preparing Form 1-A.
Step 3a Form 1-A Filing with SEC, in parallel with the Marketing agency building the offering pitch on Manhattan Street Capital. SEC filing can take 60 days when conducted well with rapid responses to SEC questions. Work starts while the audit is ongoing. (The SEC qualification depends on several factors, it can take longer than the estimated time.)
Step 3b Marketing agency builds offering pitch on Manhattan Street Capital, video, PR, graphics, social media accounts, advertising.
Step 4 SEC Qualify filing and the company go live to investors through underwriter on MSC. Start the acceptance of capital. ~Audit+ 60 days
Step 5 First Closing when $ raise is sufficient, judged by the company if it exceeds SEC Qualified minimum. The initial escrow fund deposits are transferred to the company's accounts. The SEC will Qualify offerings with zero minimum in many cases.
Step 6 Marketing continues till you decide you have raised enough capital, but no more than the maximum $ the SEC qualified. Say a further 3 months to get to maximum allowed. Maximum time allowed under one SEC filing is 12 months. The company may pause their offering and reopen during this time. ~Audit+ 160-180 days
There are many aspects of the schedule that are adjustable according to confidence and success level. This is a Summary schedule that is condensed and simplified. Each offering is unique and timing will differ.
When the Qualified offering goes live, until the minimum $ accepted by the SEC is reached, no money flows to the company. The SEC has shown to be open to zero minimum offerings, which helps in this regard.
MSC is not a law firm, valuation service, underwriter, broker-dealer, or a Title III crowdfunding portal and we do not engage in any activities requiring any such registration. We do not provide advice on investments. MSC does not structure transactions. Do not interpret any advice from MSC staff as a replacement for advice from service providers in these professions. When Rod Turner provides advice this advice is based upon his observations of what works and what does not from a marketing perspective in online offerings. Rod does not tell the audience what to do, or how to do it. He advises the audience what is most likely to be easier to market cost-effectively in the online context. The choices of all aspects of companies' offerings are made by the companies that make offerings.
Rod Turner
Rod Turner is the founder and CEO of Manhattan Street Capital, the #1 Growth Capital service for mature startups and mid-sized companies to raise capital using Regulation A+. Turner has played a key role in building successful companies including Symantec/Norton (SYMC), Ashton Tate, MicroPort, Knowledge Adventure, and more. He is an experienced investor who has built a Venture Capital business (Irvine Ventures) and has made angel and mezzanine investments in companies such as Bloom, Amyris (AMRS), Ask Jeeves, and eASIC.
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