This board should be required reading (or DD) for anyone that creates an account on iHub. Watching LDSR and ANDI, I'd deduced quite a bit (but not all) of your introductory information, but had I read through here and then watched a couple weeks, I'd saved myself a couple grand.
Standard operations seems to be fluffy PR's with a lot of words, but without bottom line value to the company, named advisors with history that really aren't running the company, holding companies holding other holding companies that acquire other dead companies, and all this being touted by a band of cheerleaders as the beginnings of the next Amazon or Apple, all intended to get the unsuspecting to invest in shares at a penny or so (more if the cheerleaders do their job well) that were acquired at prices that have a lot of leading zero's after the decimal, either from the companies, their debtholders, or the cheerleaders themselves. Oh, and all the while these transactions go on, complaining about market makers holding them back and possible dilution from the company while some of those lucky to have nabbed those zero's slowly ease out some or all of their purchase.
Two that I've watched have been mentioned here in the last couple days (LDSR and VTNL), another being ANDI. Are they all like this? I see a few that crept into dollars, but most every one that I've looked at has a huge spike up, then back down to what appears to be the death of a stock.