Andre J. Peschong

“The sky is falling, the sky is falling!”  Watch any news broadcast or pick up any newspaper and the stock market appears to have hit the apocalypse.  Almost everyone I know, be it on Wall Street or Main Street, is throwing in the towel.  Capitulation!  I have spoken about that term before in previous posts [...]

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This has been a decade of triumph, tragedy, happiness, sadness, glory and ruin.  The decade is not over with and we have had more news worthy and momentous news items than the last 100 years put together.  That is a bold statement but the millennium started off with a quick bang or better stated “pop” [...]

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There is an old saying that always comes up in uncertain times and that is “what is the definition of stupidity? Doing the exact same thing over and over again hoping for a different result”.  We must all face facts, the game has changed and the landscape has forever been altered.  It is not just [...]

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Mr. Kann as a microcap/nanocap equity expert how do you see the current liquidity environment affecting capital raising efforts for these companies?
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Kann: Well, the current liquidity problems, which are acute, in the overall market simply exacerbate the persistent liquidity problems, which are chronic among most microcap and nanocap stocks.  When a company goes to [...]

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I have always asked myself what makes a deal successful, not a company but a deal, or maybe better put, a transaction. Private equity and VC’s alike are merely doing transactions with a longer term horizon than investment bankers, brokers or even angel investors. At the end of the day a deal is [...]

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In my day to day business of doing deals, I’ve noticed that an ugly term keeps coming up and people seem to wonder what it means.  I keep hearing the question, ”what is a clawback provision?”  It is an older term used in the financial world which basically means if certain pre-determined performance parameters are [...]

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IR is a basic absolute for a company even considering being publicly traded. With all the costs associated with being a public company such as SOX compliance, legal, accounting, transfer agent fees, listing fees etc…  Why then would a company want to cut back or not have a full effort to effectively get the story [...]

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The US economy is retracting, jobless claims are increasing, consumer confidence is dwindling, the housing market is cratering, oil prices are skyrocketing and the credit markets are tightening.  Almost makes you want to stay in bed and pull the covers over your head.  If you take in all this news and data about what is [...]

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Here comes the attack of the more nimble SPAC’s (Special Purpose Acquisition Corp.) These are a relatively new twist to a very old concept which were previously called blank check companies.  There are no business operations inside the corporate entity just the construct of a company such as shareholders, capital, management and a publicly traded [...]

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Companies often struggle with properly relaying or presenting themselves to potential investors. The best idea can go unfunded when improperly communicated or presented to the venture capital community. There are some key tactics that all companies seeking funding should follow. Here are the top ten musts for entrepreneurs looking to secure venture capital or Angel [...]

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