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Joined March 2016
5 Financing Mistakes Small-Caps Make, and the Industries That Hope It Continues: smallcapinstitute.com/corpor…
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If you can’t buy or sell material amounts of stock at the quoted price (i.e., at least six-digit dollar amounts), then it’s not a price in the same way as IBM.
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Every great small-cap leader needs to learn this lesson; most learn it... the hard way.
Replying to @smallcapinst
But all stock prices are not created equal, so making life and death corporate decisions predicated exclusively on a small-cap stock quote rarely ends well.
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"Never invest in a business whose management doesn’t have to live with the consequences of their decisions." - @iancassel, Invest in Owner Management, a member-only piece in the Small-Cap Institute member library.
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"You can have a boardroom packed with geniuses, but it can all be for naught if there isn’t also the requisite courage to act." At Company C, a director became increasingly concerned about the CFO’s demeanor....read more here: smallcapinstitute.com/corpor…
Investors are often flummoxed when small-cap CEOs mention garnering analyst coverage. While analysts reports can certainly help with getting eyeballs on a stock, this alone does not create buying pressure in the least.
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In fact, the dearth of analyst coverage in small-cap has been mentioned repeatedly as MiFID has begun to impact research. It was even mentioned by Charles Royce in a Barron's interview recently. barrons.com/articles/small-s…
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"Who should appoint board members?" A question from our newest member piece, Bridging the Chasm: What Small-Cap Investors Want Board Members to Know, by @TheAdamJEpstein, guest edited by @Lawndale1
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If being an investor is lonely (it is), CEOs are in solitary confinement.
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Busy week upcoming: sharing frank, buy-side perspectives with 3 difft. cohorts of small-cap CEOs/CFOs in LA and SJ about how small-caps routinely destroy value. Will incorporate the best Q's I get into the 12/17 webinar for Small-Cap Institute. #corpgov events.genndi.com/register/8…
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Our first webinar, 7 Value-Killing Small-Cap Boardroom Mistakes, will take place December 17th at 10 a.m. pacific standard time. We will cover just some of the ways companies undermine investor trust, often irreparably. REGISTER HERE events.genndi.com/channel/7-…
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This was fun, Bobby. Thanks for having me on; discussing social media/Elon was an added bonus beyond talking about how David Scher’s vision for Small-Cap Institute @smallcapinst is optimizing small-cap decision making.
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Ian Cassel
@iancassel18 Sep 2019
Replying to @ArtkoCapital
I added LD Micro Index as well - $150m avg market cap
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Not just investors and service providers are cautious about being frank with CEOs... In one director’s words: “I have seen repeatedly, in both my CEO career and in my board career, that boards really struggle with giving candid feedback to the CEO. buff.ly/30127LX
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"Most fund managers won’t stop you mid-presentation to tell you they don’t understand what you’re talking about – they will just nod, smile, and tune you out." -- Effective Storytelling Starts With Plain English on @Nasdaq Insite, by @TheAdamJEpstein business.nasdaq.com/marketin…
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Here’s a great example of why I always read ⁦@theLDMicro⁩’s email updates on Sunday. 🤔
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One of the most difficult obstacles small-cap and micro-cap companies face is executing financings deemed acceptable by their shareholders. Some thoughts on the subject...
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An investor meeting is likely going to go poorly when a CEO effectively reads the slides to investors. Connections with other people can’t be made when you’re ostensibly reading to them (never mind the fact that investors are capable of reading the very same slides).
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Replying to @theLDMicro
*Grown* :)
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