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stanley01...AHAG(.015)......

AHAG is a clean shell--- only 7 million shares outstanding, tiny float, and the former CEO Lawrence Butler is owner of TalkTrash FCM, a creative advertising company. I think one day he will reverse merge the two companies and AHAG stock will explode. AHAG's physical address shares the same physical address as TalkTrash FCM.

I own a large position in the AHAG shell, accumulated about 2 years or so ago around the current price range. Aside from the possibility of Lawrence Butler and Drew Livingston bringing TrashTalkFCM public via AHAG (which I agree would make for a pretty interesting RM), part of why I like this particular shell has to do with the interesting connections that the Butler family has developed.

When you see someone like Robert Sillerman drop down into the pink sheets to pick up a 15-12G filer (GWAY/FNCX) for his latest venture, it certainly gets your attention and makes some of the low-share structure pink sheet shells like AHAG become intriguing/enticing once again.

The top shareholders in AHAG are Lawrence and his father (Marshall), both of whom are former CEOs of companies that have traded on the upper exchanges. Both men have been extremely active with private company development and venture capital over the years. For example, Lawrence co-founded Steel Partners (hedge fund manager) with Warren G. Lichtenstein back in the 1990s. And Marshall was chairman, managing partner and current advisor to Infinity Private Equity (heavily involved in Israel/China investments)......

http://www.infinity-equity.com/team_advisors_new.asp

Here is kind of an interesting 2009 article which mentions Lawrence's accumulation of private company shares for his personal portfolio. I think I recall seeing a transcript from a business television interview a few months later in which he had picked up an additional $500k worth of shares......

Larry Butler, chief executive of advertising firm TrashTalk FCM in Brentwood, has been using the site for a couple of months now and has built an investment portfolio of more than a half-million dollars in private company stock.

He said he appreciates the opportunity to invest in hot companies that have already gained the backing of top venture capital firms.

“It is creating an opportunity to make shares in private companies more accessible to the public,” he said. “I would have never had an opportunity to buy shares in Facebook, for instance, if it wasn’t for SharesPost.”

http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2009/sep/07/stocking-online/