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Re: rocky301 post# 14900

Tuesday, 09/06/2005 7:36:05 PM

Tuesday, September 06, 2005 7:36:05 PM

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We are getting off the subject here but this is what i consider selling shares to public:

"Public Offering
The sale of equity shares or other financial instruments by an organization to the public in order to raise funds for business expansion and investment. Public offerings of corporate securities in the U.S. must be registered with and approved by the SEC and are normally conducted by an investment underwriter.

Generally, any sale of securities to more than 35 people is deemed to be a public offering, and thus requires the filing of registration statements with the appropriate regulatory authorities. The offering price is predetermined and established by the issuing company and the investment bankers handling the transaction. The term public offering is equally applicable to a company's initial public offering, as well as subsequent offerings."

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/publicoffering.asp

ALSO I FIND THIS VERY APPLICABLE

"The management of the company is supposed to increase the value of the firm for shareholders. If this doesn't happen, the shareholders can vote to have the management removed--well, this is the theory anyway. In reality, individual investors like you and I don't own enough shares to have a material influence on the company. It's really the big boys like large institutional investors and billionaire entrepreneurs who make the decisions"

http://www.investopedia.com/university/stocks/stocks1.asp





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