Wednesday, December 29, 2010

DANGEROUS DEPENDENCIES and ENTERPRISING OPPORTUNISTS - 2011

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DANGEROUS DEPENDENCIES and ENTERPRISING OPPORTUNISTS - 2011

WHERE SECURITY AND SAFETY ARE ILLUSIONS

Written by author Douglas Castle for publication in THE GLOBAL FUTURIST (http://TheGlobalFuturist.blogspot.com) and in THE TNNWC NEWSFEED [RSS and DAILY EMAIL] (http://TheNationalNetworkerWeblog.blogspot.com)


Dear Friends, Fellow Futurists and Members:

Human Beings generally become complacent when things appear to be consistent, and they fashion their dependencies around the expectation that things will either remain the same or get better. This is tantamount to sleeping on a known fault line -- it is a form of enslavement by indolence. It is that assumptive thinking that the "status quo will not change", or that "the worst is over." It is like falling asleep while you're supposed to be on guard duty.

When economic, political and social times are relatively good for just a brief time, even after a lengthy and historically unprecedented period of calamitous recession, massive unemployment, price-gouging, artificial shortages, breaches of the public trust, gross fiduciary mismanagement by some of the biggest financial and industrial institutions on the planet, giant environmental disasters (how about BP's enormous oil spill and toxic 'cleanup' attempts off of the Gulf Coast of the United States ?) in the  ethnic cleansing and wholesale genocide --we fall under the spell of things will be "normal" or "stable" again.

The public has a very, very short memory. Going further, it would be safe to say that the public, like any individual survivor of a childhood traumatic episode, develops a form of amnesia to blot out the most painful childhood memories. Amnesia and denial.

Ironically, we either forget, blot out or otherwise fail to learn from powerfully informative negative experiences and make meaningful adaptations or preparations. It is as if it were better to hide from the pain of the wound or attack than to prepare for the possibility of its recurrence. We, the people, are amazingly adept at hiding from unpleasant realities. We will even seek to justify that which cannot be justified because we do not wish to accept a frightening, changing, seemingly chaotic world fraught with danger.

If we anticipate what the possible changes to the peacetime dreamy (or imagined) norm of these "fundamentals" and "staples" upon which we have come to rely could possibly be (imagining the worst case scenario) and what our potential exposure would be, we would begin developing contingency plans and backup positions. Complacency and Dependence are dangerous things -- they make our adaptation skills atrophy, and make us look increasingly tempting as victims. Anticipate, Project and Prepare.

Forgetting or denial are not options for rational people or rational organizations. Past experience is not to be dismissed as a bad dream -- it must be treated and applied as a learning experience. There is no rational advantage to the avoidance of learning. A refusal to learn and to react to the telltale signs and signals of dangerous changes about to occur is an invitation for History's worst to repeat itself, over and over...


What follows is not investment advice -- it is merely an extrapolation of current trends with some of history's painful lessons applied. Companies which embrace some or any of the characteristics or engage in some of the emerging fields which follow are simply going to be more likely to survive and thrive than those which fail to do so:



SUCCESSFUL COMPANY CHARACTERISTICS AND EMERGING FIELDS  


1) Companies which are expending an increasing percentage of their budgets and resources on identifying areas of their own dependencies and exposure, vigilantly observing relevant trends, and preparing contingency plans;

Remember: Complacency and Dependency are the reasons that companies and entire industries fail when exclusive suppliers (i.e., constructive monopolists) go out of business,  reduce supplies, increase prices, work at a direct conflict with their customers' interests or compromise their customers' information, or restrict access to it -- like holding it for ransom.

Imagine if some of the current free social media services that form the centerposts of many major businesses and provide a regular means of communication were to begin charging substantial fees? Or if backup systems providers wanted to hold our data and records for ransom -- or to simply sell our personal information to third parties without our knowledge and /or consent (example: MySpace)?


2) Companies which render high caliber advisory services to other companies, organizations and individuals regarding supplier dependencies, vulnerabilities and deficiencies and prescribe or implement the means to reduce the risks imposed by these potential negatives;


3) Companies which provide these types of services to businesses and organizations: data and communications security, backup, encryption, transmittal and information compression and storage technologies;


4) Companies which are in the business of sourcing vendors and suppliers (especially in emergency situations) for businesses and organizations -- some of my colleagues have referred to these types of companies as "just in time escort services."


5) Companies providing personal protection, and personal protection-related technologies for corporate executives, organizational leaders and political figures.


6) Companies providing social media/ search engine reputation management services to personal, corporate and organizational clients. With the advent, proliferation and increased dependency upon search engines, data-mining and cross-referencing technologies, the Internet has become an open forum (with an embedded and indelible memory) for anonymous parties who (rightly or wrongly) post complaints about their mistreatment at the hands of other companies, organizations and individuals. Whether or not these allegations or reports are truthful, they can do severe damage to the reputation of the party being spoken about.

Imagine a scenario in the very near future in which companies, organizations, lobbyists, political parties and other resourceful and imaginative hire SWAT teams of whiners and maligners [great phrase, eh?] to damage the competition by loading the search engines and social media with negative propaganda...


7)  Companies which develop self-sustaining, green (i.e., environmentally-friendly) or "living - off- of- the- grid" energy technologies which enable households and companies to become increasingly self-sufficient and increasingly independent of merciless utilities, constructive monopolies, the vagaries of the capital markets, and other "third-party" risks. Count among these companies all of  those who are working on alternative energy, utilities or transportation technologies which employ abundant and inexpensive natural resources. Note: Many of these companies are in the incubation stage as I write this.

Where there is danger there is always opportunity - the keys are to pay attention and to be imaginative.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
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http://theglobalfuturist.blogspot.com/
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Look below, pause for laughter, and then visit GIST at http://bit.ly/GISTrevolution.

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Sunday, December 26, 2010

Successful Culture + Successful Conduct = Strong National Economy

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Successful Culture + Successful Conduct = Strong National Economy. What have the former "giant nations" lost? http://bit.ly/Growth101 #news


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Thank you for visiting, and for investing some time with me. Should you want to contact me, please telephone toll-free at 888.317.6498, or send me a direct email at douglas.castle@yahoo.com. I work with emerging enterprises internationally on matters of strategic planning, organizational development and financing, both in the For-Profit Sector and in the Not-For-Profit Sector – Douglas Castle
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TNNWC Group, LLC, in Brief

TNNWC Group, LLC empowers emerging enterprises locally, worldwide and inter-globally by providing 1) informational publications and products; 2) an indispensible suite of crucial, unparalleled services for business planning, development, growth, marketing and capitalization, which are offered to all of our Members who are all 3) interactively involved within a growing, mutually-supportive collaborative, cooperative community of individuals and businesses. We are run by entrepreneurial people, and we live to serve entrepreneurial people and the business initiated through their inspiration… from the garage-based technological start-up, to the “small business” wanting to break free of its limitations and grow larger at an accelerated but sustainable pace. We Empower Emerging Enterprises™ - not with “happy talk” and “grandiose ideas”… but with real tools and expert interpersonal guidance to use each of them for their optimal effectiveness. Visit us at TNNWC Group, LLC. - Join us. We have so much to offer you. Our philosophy is simple: UNITE AND CONQUER.


Membership is FREE!The NATIONAL NETWORKER™The NATIONAL NEWSPICKER™LEFT, RIGHT and CENTER™Financing, Credit and Risk ManagementEmerging Enterprises Venture Capital Program™Merchant Payment Processing SolutionsNews Releases, Publicity and Public RelationsBUZZWORKS™ - Branding and Social Media DominationMarket Research, Surveys and PollsAssessment ToolsBLOGWORKS™ - Expand Your Search Engine Presence, Positioning and CredibilityAdvertise with Us!Selected Service ProvidersInternational Connections Service - Go GlobalIntelligence and Information OperationsInstant Mobile Communications, Applications and Training
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Monday, December 20, 2010

CrowdFunding - Entrepreneurial And Small Business Capital Made Accessible

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CROWDFUNDING Entrepreneurial And Small Business Growth Capital Made Accessible.

Q: Could this herald the beginning of a revolution in the traditional capital markets? Is this new idea going to create a needed redistribution of significant operating and growth capital and liquidity into the Emerging Enterprise and Small Business Sectors? What might be the potential impact on the domestic and global economies, employment and the future distribution of wealth?

Note: 12.19.2010 - The article which follows was written by Douglas Castle for simultaneous publication in THE NATIONAL NETWORKER WEEKLY NEWSLETTER/ TNNWC WEEKLY NEWSLETTER™ and THE GLOBAL FUTURIST™ Blog. It may be reproduced, transmitted or republished without permission provided that 1) the article is printed in its entirety without edit or deletion; 2) all hyperlinks are left live and intact; and 3) attribution is given to both the author and both of the aforementioned publications by name. This article does not contain, and should not be regarded or construed as investment, tax, accounting, financial or legal advice under any circumstances. No sale or solicitation for the purchase of any type of securities or other financial invests is made hereby.


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CROWDFUNDING
 
Preface: Here is a basic definition of Crowdfunding from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

“Crowd funding (sometimes called crowd financing or crowd sourced capital) describes the collective cooperation, attention and trust by people who network and pool their money and other resources together, usually via the Internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations. Crowdfunding occurs for any variety of purposes, from disaster relief to citizen journalism to artists seeking support from fans, to political campaigns, to funding a startup company or small business.”

This article was inspired through a letter which I received from Ashok Margam, a Linked In colleague and co-member in a group about crowdsourcing. Thank you, Ashok, for energizing me. Ashok’s letter to me is reproduced below: 

LinkedIn Groups


Douglas,

Welcome to the Group! TNNWC Group's mission looks pretty interesting and closer to the interests/alignments of the group! Hope together we can help some startups in the region.

What do you think of the current petition with SEC about the exemption for "crowdfunding" kind of capital raise - up to a certain limit, without the Blue Sky laws etc.?

Don't you think the regulatory picture might slowly evolve to accommodate the growing interest in the CrowdFunding?

Just curious about what you and other members think. By the way, I created a poll for this, about when you think, if any, CrowdFunding would change the way startups raise capital. Could you care to answer that poll and, may be forward to other contacts? It should be interesting for us all to measure objectively the perceptions of the society around - eventually, those pave the way for how regulation evolves.

Thanks!
Ashok
Posted by Ashok Margam

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Crowdfunding is a rapidly-emerging phenomenon based upon the leveraging of the Internet and social media to solicit funds for projects, causes and for smaller companies (or start-up enterprises). It is a logical and innovative entrepreneurial response to the growing problem of obtaining relatively small amounts of financing for private enterprises. The principle is similar to that which is employed by not-for-profit, cause-based organizations which raise small contributions from a relatively large donor audience via their mass e-mailings, newsletter and their presence on the web.

At present, most crowdfunding efforts yield relatively small sums of capital (i.e., anywhere from US$5,000.00 to US$1,000,000.00) in very small increments (i.e., anywhere from US$100.00 to US$5,000.00) from any number of investors or patrons. It is, if properly planned and implemented, a means for an ambitious company to raise a small early-stage round of financing without having to: 1) approach and engage in an elaborate and often time-consuming courtship (sales cycle) with angel investors, venture capitalists, investment bankers, government agencies or commercial banks; 2) spend large sums of money -- principally legal fees, compliance fees and production costs) on preparing Private Placement Memoranda (for private offerings to a limited number of specially qualified, “accredited” investors) or Sales Prospectuses (for initial public offerings); or 3) sacrifice a tremendous share of the company’s ownership and control to outside parties at an early, vulnerable stage in the company’s life cycle.

Most participating investors in crowdfunding efforts are non-wealthy, non-institutional individuals who simply believe in the management, objectives or intentions of the offering entity. Many of them are, in fact, entrepreneurial individuals who would like to participate in other entrepreneurial companies for either altruistic reasons, or to obtain a direct return on investment from a private company, assuming that the company is successful.

It is a very straightforward approach which allows adventurous private sector investors or participants an opportunity to directly participate in the bootstrapping and profitability of potentially successful ventures. There are virtually no price barriers to entry (small sums are invested per participant), catastrophic risks (while there are risks inherent in every investment, if the amount being invested is less than the cost of dinner and a show, a loss of the entire investment would probably not have significant adverse consequences to the investor.     

The mechanism is incredibly simple. An entrepreneur, executive or spokesperson of an emerging enterprise or growing business makes an offer (generally in the form of a brief   request or polite solicitation followed by some additional information to those parties who indicate that they may be interested in participating) to the public through postings on various social media groups, opt-in subscriber lists, business networks, blogs, websites and other internet-based communications forums to raise money for some specified purpose. If the purpose is to raise funds specifically for investment in the issuing entity, and if the investor is not involved in the management or affairs of the company, one potential complication might be the need for compliance with federal regulations and state laws governing offerings of securities. If you are, in fact, making an offering of securities, you must make the necessary regulatory and state (“Blue Sky”) filings.

While I have heard numerous offline discussions about the SEC and other similar regulatory agencies in other countries regarding the possibility of creating a separate, less cumbersome status for crowdfunding offerings, and about numerous petitions to three of these agencies toward that noble effort, I remain highly skeptical that any significant change in the securities laws governing crowdfunding will come soon. Both the regulatory agencies and the expert securities lawyers have too much financially and politically at stake to create an exemption or exception for any “special” class of securities offering – especially one which I believe is going to increase tremendously in popularity within the next 24 months to the extent that it could become a capital markets game-changer.

It has long been the position of securities regulators that their primary role was to keep “order” in the capital markets (note: to some cynical folks that merely means keeping Wall Street investing as close as possible to casino gambling for the large numbers of small, independent investors, while simultaneously keeping the select, elite “too big to fail” powerhouses effectively in charge of the game, as the “house’s favored insiders”… but I digress…), and to protect investors from abuse and fraud – like the occasional Enron, Madoff or market collapse which vaporized many a pension and retirement fund.

For the time being, it would seem prudent to avoid using any method of crowdfunding that could be construed as a securities offering. The mere compliance and filing fees involved would make a small capital raise far too expensive for serious consideration. You should consult competent legal counsel to find out A) if you are making a securities offering, and B) what your most viable alternatives to this might be.

One way to determine whether or not you are making an offer of securities and may be subject to the applicable regulations and laws, at least in the United States is by the Howey Test.

The Howey Test says that a transaction constitutes an investment contract (therefore a security) if there is (1) an exchange of money (2) with an expectation of profits arising (3) from a common enterprise (4) which depends solely on the efforts of a promoter or third party. Clearly, under this standard, any crowd sourcing arrangement in which people are asked to contribute money in exchange for potential profits based on the work of others would be considered a security. As such, the applicable investment contract would have to be registered with a regulatory agency (such as the S.E.C.) unless it qualified for one of several rule-laden exemptions (e.g. Regulation A or Rule 506 of Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, or the California Limited Offering Exemption - Rule 1001 (also known as S.E.C. Rule 1001)). The penalties for a securities violation can vary greatly and depend in large part on the amount of profit obtained by the "promoter," the damage done to the investors, and whether a violation is a first time offense. However, a violation may result in both civil and criminal penalties, a return of any profit made and sometimes a lifetime ban from work in the securities industry. According to Section 5 of the Securities Act, it is illegal to sell any security unless such a sale is accompanied or preceded by a prospectus that meets the requirements of the Securities Act. You will have to check with an expert in the jurisdiction in which you reside, and in any jurisdiction in which your prospective offerees may reside, as well.


While I cannot and do not recommend or guarantee the efficacy or legality of any particular approach to any crowdfunding venture, I will state definitively that the structure of what is offered, and the way in which the marketing is conducted are two very critical components essential to getting the optimal crowdfunding advantage with the minimum likelihood of being in the position as an offeror or promoter of any type of securities.

I predict that some of the more spirited entrepreneurs and other innovative financial engineers looking into using the crowdsourcing approach will be delving into the following types of possible workarounds, although I do not express an opinion or offer advice on the viability or legality any one of them. I can, however, safely forecast, as a Futurist, that the following approaches or variations on them will be tried by requesters of crowdsourced capital. In each case, depending upon the specific nature of the structure of a transaction, there can be tax consequences (for example, where the “contributions” will be treated as taxable income to the company receiving them). Get advice from competent tax counsel prior to finalizing the details of any crowdfunding campaign:

1.  ADVERTISING AND PROMOTION - Offering contributors permanent ads, promotional spots, or endorsements in exchange for contributions of funds. In these cases, any stake in the company would merely be given to the contributors as a perquisite;

2.  HONORING EARLY ADOPTERS – Similar to the above approach, contributors would be honored as “early adopters” or “charter members” in special postings on the company’s website, newsletters and other applicable e-media. In these cases, any stake in the company would merely be given to the contributors as a perquisite;

3.  SPECIFIC PROJECT FUNDS – In this approach, the company would create a special fundraising campaign (with a segregated account for received proceeds) with contributions for a specific purpose, such as contributions to a charity, a community development project, an educational opportunity, or something of humanitarian or civic interest. In these cases, any stake in the company would merely be given to the contributors as a perquisite. An important issue here is the judicious application of the funds collected; the bulk of funds collected must be allocated for the specific purpose set forth in the project description or campaign plan, with minimal expenses deducted for company purposes;

4.  CLUB-TYPE MEMBERSHIPS – In this approach, contributors would be given certain privileges or access to resources of value (like club memberships) in exchange for their contributions. In these cases, any stake in the company would be given to these “charter members” as a perquisite;

5.  A COOPERATIVE OR COLLABORATIVE CO-VENTURE – In this approach, contributors would be actively rendering services to the company, or through the company, in consideration of their contributions, and each of these contributors would have some significant element of “say” in the company’s financial and business affairs. In effect, the contributors would each and all be acting as the co-founders of the company, or could be regarded as such;

6.  AN EMPLOYEE OWNERSHIP PROGRAM – In this approach, employees would be issued options (as bonuses) to purchase stakes in the company (generally at some bargain price) which they could earn and vest as a function of performance and/or seniority. These options might be considered and treated for taxation purposes as employee income, so due consideration must be exercised in how they are earned, issued, priced and exercised;

7.  BARTER – In this approach, the company might issue ownership stakes in lieu of cash payments to creditors, vendors and suppliers. Once again, seek professional advice on the tax consequences, if any, to both the company and to the recipients in this type of trade so as not to be unpleasantly surprised.

There will certainly be pioneers, who, at great risk to themselves (and others) will just go out and directly or indirectly sell stakes to large numbers of small-ticket investors via the Internet and social media. While this approach is certainly straightforward, with honest and honorable intentions, a significant volume of successes, especially involving larger amounts raised, will invite regulatory oversight and numerous legal “test cases” and arguments as to the legality of this type of fundraising. It may well force some changes in securities regulations and laws – but these types of changes generally take time and involve a number of legal and regulatory actions.

Expect to hear and see a great deal more about crowdfunding during the next two years as it becomes much more widely-known through increased experimentation and some newsworthy entrepreneurial successes.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle


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