Today, in this economic ‘toilet’ existence of stench and continuous down spiral due to the omnipresent gravity of media flocking to experts who rattle off the wrong advice for the blind masses to follow there are few leaders to look to for old school, robber baron style competition that is vital to the resurrection and future vitality of entrepreneurial activity and expansion. The importance of the capitalist mentality and free market philosophy is what makes America’s confidence backed monetary system function. No longer backed by gold, the dollar is backed by note holder confidence, nothing more. With confidence dwindling the question of why begins to surface.

When I was in graduate school, I had the discipline to study hard, get involved in various club organizations that catered to diversifying my abilities in business and finance but always felt that something was lacking. We would learn about economics within the capitalist and communist systems, pros and cons of globalization, big government, the instability of non-entrepreneurial markets and every other concept that catered to our professor’s desire to legitimize their theories by blasting out intimidating formulas that were true in theory but impossible in real life. If an economic stimulus is fully functional on paper due to formulas and calculation yet has never and will never work in the ‘real world’, what’s the point?

If you want to start a war among the minds of out self-proclaimed ‘betters’ initiate a conversation about economics, more specifically turnaround economics. In the United States the intellectual scholastic side attempt to purge the beast with formulaic equations and theoretical solutions based off of polling are part of the reason we are knee deep in under productivity and a deficit that has slapped shackles to the ankles of the leaders of tomorrow limiting movement and restricting capability for global renaissance.

Secret societies are like Russian dolls; within each body there is another and another. The smaller the clique, the more power hungry the members and when the group begins to work in unison it takes on a different shape and membership is closed. When synergies are properly aligned and a diversified base-camp of influence is settled the agenda begins. These micro groups unify with others and smaller agendas are then plugged into larger ones and those groups that are in senior positions take over the master plan and the subsidiary groups become a subservient part of the whole. This is exactly how it works. Those that have the truest power positions are men that you have never heard of that have been bread and groomed all their lives for positions of obscene power without the emotional need for fame.

Lets face it, if you are a small or medium size business owner, the government looks at you and sees dollar signs and instead of words coming from your mouth they just hear ‘cha ching’! Don’t be naive you mean about as much to your local congressman as a slab of road kill to maggots.

I’m a fan of all things Machiavellian, the only downside, well, he’s been dead for a while so I had to settle for ‘The Prince’ in audio, video, books, mp3 and every other way I can get my political strategies kick. I found myself being drawn to type in certain keyword phrases and came across a company called Princeton Corporate Solutions, a boutique corporate and political strategies firm working globally with political crisis management and domestically on the IPO scene.

As a journalist I find myself ghost writing books for self absorbed executives and politicians and never able to take credit for it. I usually get a call from the executive’s publicist and they want me to write a bunch of garbage about his soft side, his humanitarian side or his golf swing. The article is written, published, the clients happy and I feel like a sell out with no journalistic integrity because in this industry, to pay the bills means to compromise and do things you don’t like. This interview was different, completely different.

The objective of today’s CEO is survival; survival in terms of enterprise position. The CEO has to pick up the shattered remnants left behind by the lies and failures of elected officials and institutions. Today’s senior executive needs to be a congressman, judge, mayor and priest all rolled up into one. The livelihood of one’s employees/constituency depends on the expansion tactics, emotional stamina, intellectual foresight and willingness to enter into an economic cage brawl to protect the company, shareholders and employees that depend on the entity’s survival for monetary sustenance.

Private Placement Memorandums and Direct Public Offerings, the most common mistakes made. When gearing up to raise capital it is typically a business owners first instinct to simply throw together a business plan and find the cheapest company to put together the private placement memorandum and then seek funding. What these professionals don’t realize is that they are doing things in reverse and often times a PPM is not a standalone solution to financial needs.

So many companies dream of going public both as a growth and exit strategy but unfortunately few succeed with this process. The third party audit, sponsoring of the S1 and 211 by a market maker and SEC comments stage is just one of the obstacles involved with taking a company public. The attempt at going public and actually achieving a symbol are two entirely different things and if you are lucky enough to achieve a symbol there’s a completely separate area of expertise needed to keep your stock trading and to preserve a company’s longevity in the marketplace.