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| The Index for Growing Companies . Those
businesses that are looking to take equity out of their business and establish
an exit strategy so there business is sustainable beyond their involvement.
There is an entire episode that looks at the eight possible exit strategies and
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Basic assumptions. There are many legacy
businesses, blue chip companies that are some of the solid citizens of every
community. This option is not a benefit to them. There are many small
businesses that are doing less than $1M in revenues. Initially, most investors
will not be interested in them (that number will drop lower with every passing
year). There are, however, businesses with quiet legacies, the natural bumps
and brusies along the way, where this option will be most atractive.
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| We believe that number is around 3% of your
community of businesses. |
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| A listing of the 400,000 of the best small
business. Such a listing will fascinate the world. Pension and mutual fund
managers seeking more diversification, are looking closely at efforts by
American Express Financial Services, Nasdaq, Morningstar, Thomson Financial and
the Private Equity Investors (PEI) to open a small business equity-liquidity
model that is not contested by the SEC. There is a desire to participate in the
best small business on Main Street and to date, there is no equity access to
these businesses and liquidity thereafter. That is changing. |
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| Online reporting: The tools currently exist
for small business owners to join an index and automatically upload their key
financial ratios at the end of every closing so they could do an analysis of
their business by the averages within their industry. That same mechanism
creates transparency if a business were to decide to take on equity capital for
either succession or an expansion. The SEC has suggestion that they would not
contest such an unfoldment. Further, without encouraging it, they see such a
model being a challenge for more transparency within NASDAQ and NYSE.
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