Item 1a – Risk Factors
As a “smaller reporting company” as defined by Item 10 of Regulation S-K, the Company is not required to provide this information. We have elected to include this information as additional disclosure reporting due to our recently completed direct public offering (August 23, 2017).
The following risk factors should be considered in connection with an evaluation of our business:
In addition to other information in this Quarterly Report (the “Report”), the following risk factors should be carefully considered in evaluating our business because such factors may have a significant impact on our business, operating results, liquidity and financial condition. As a result of the risk factors set forth below, actual results could differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us, or that we currently consider to be immaterial, may also impact our business, result of operations, liquidity and financial condition. If any such risks occur, our business, operating results, liquidity and financial condition could be materially affected in an adverse manner. Under such circumstances, if and when a trading market for our securities is established, the trading price of our securities could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment.
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THE SECURITIES BEING OFFERED INVOLVE A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK AND, THEREFORE, SHOULD BE CONSIDERED EXTREMELY SPECULATIVE. THEY SHOULD NOT BE PURCHASED BY PERSONS WHO CANNOT AFFORD THE POSSIBILITY OF THE LOSS OF THE ENTIRE INVESTMENT. PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS SHOULD READ THE ENTIRE FILING, INCLUDING ALL EXHIBITS, AND CAREFULLY CONSIDER, AMONG OTHER FACTORS THE FOLLOWING RISK FACTORS.
You should be aware that there are substantial risks for an investment in our common stock. You should carefully consider these risk factors, along with the other information included in the Company’s Registration statement filed on Form S-1, its Annual Report filed on Form 10-K or this Quarterly Report, before you decide to invest in our common stock.
If any of the following risks were to occur, such as our business, financial condition, results of operations and/or other prospects, any of these could materially affect our likelihood of success. If that happens, the market price of our common stock, if any, could decline, and prospective investors would lose all or part of their investment in our common stock.
Risks Related to the Business
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The Company has virtually no financial resources. Our independent registered public accounting firm’s report includes an explanatory paragraph stating that there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
The Company is an early stage company with virtually no financial resources. We have negative working capital of $256,194 and accumulated deficit of $307,033 as of January 31, 2018. Our independent registered public accounting firm’s report included an explanatory paragraph in their opinion on our financial statements as of and for the period ended April 30, 2017 that states that “the Company’s losses from operations raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern”. We will be required to seek additional financing beyond amounts received from our recently completed direct public offering. Additional financing sought may be in the form of equity or debt from sources yet to be identified. Once we complete our direct public offering (which we most recently did), most efforts of management will be redirected to the further execution of our business plan and the pursuit of revenue producing activities. Despite the success of our recently completed direct public offering, management will seek additional financing to further pursue and execute on our business plan and the pursuit of revenue producing activities. No assurances can be given that we will generate sufficient revenue (or any at all) or obtain financing needed to continue as a going concern.
Current resources and source of working capital funds, primarily consist of loans from unrelated third parties who are current or former business associates of our founder, President and Chief Executive Officer. These sources we believe to be sufficient to keep our business operations functioning for the next three to nine months. While we do not have a formal agreement with our founder, nor the unrelated third parties to fund the Company’s working capital needs, we believe that our founder’s plan is to perform most of the work required on his own without any cash compensation while he seeks other sources of funding, as well as seek the delay or deferral of payment to third party vendors and unrelated third parties which have currently helped with our working capital needs to date. Much of the initial work on the Company’s software system has been through the efforts of Mr. Ludington, as well as from our use of employees from a reputable coding and smart-app development firm with which we have contracted. We will spend generally between $10,000 and $15,000 per month in operational expenses not related to our recently completed direct public offering. We have not generated any revenues from our operations, and our expenses will continue to accrue or be deferred until sufficient additional financing is obtained. Additional financing may be obtained through our founder, family members of our founder or others familiar with our founder’s professional work experience. To date, the Company received interest free loans and secured the deferral of payment for services from our third party vendors to fund our operations. No assurances can be provided that we will continue to receive funds from these sources or continue our operations beyond a month-to-month basis.
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The Company is dependent on the services of our founder, whose lack of experience in the technical market and limited availability may cause our business operations to fail or cease; we will need to engage and retain additional qualified employees and/or consultants to further implement our business strategy.
Company’s operations and business strategy is dependent upon the services and business acumen of Mr. Ludington, our founder and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Ludington is under no contractual obligation to remain employed by us. If he should choose to leave us for any reason, or if he becomes ill and is unable to work for an extended period of time before we hire additional personnel, our operations could fail. Even if we are able to find additional personnel, it is uncertain whether we could find someone who could develop and execute our business along the lines described in this Quarterly Report. We would most certainly fail without the services of Mr. Ludington or an appropriate replacement.
We intend to acquire key-man life insurance on the life of Mr. Ludington naming us as the beneficiary when and if we have the necessary resources to do so. We have not yet procured or sought out key-man life insurance, and there is no guarantee that we will be able to obtain such key-man life insurance in the future on Mr. Ludington. Accordingly, it is important that we are able to attract, motivate and retain highly qualified and talented personnel and/or independent contractors to further the Company’s business efforts.
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Despite Mr. Ludington’s experience through his current and past professional employment, he has little to no experience in the smart phone application development market. Additionally, Mr. Ludington has limited time to devote to the Company due to his other professional commitments. In order to compensate for his lack of experience in this market and perceived limits on time, the Company and Mr. Ludington have available to them the coding and smart-app development firm, which can expand their involvement and activity with our product development. This firm and its people are readily accessible and can expand capacity or provide additional services to the Company as it grows. There can be no assurance that the Company and its management will be able to overcome Mr. Ludington’s lack of experience and limited availability to achieve our business objectives.
3.
Because we recently commenced operations, we face a high risk of business failure.
We recently incorporated in April 2016. Most of our efforts to date as a corporation have been related to executing our business plan and expanding our operations, which include the development and programming for our LTL service management system which consists of software and complicated algorithms to be used in a smart-phone application by the average user. We have had no revenues. We face a high risk of business failure. The likelihood of success for our Company must be considered in light of its significant expenses, complications and delays frequently encountered with a new business and the competitive environment in which the Company will operate. There can be no assurance that future revenues from the Company’s LTL service management product or other services will occur or be significant enough or that we will be able to sell it at a profit, if at all. Future revenues and/or profits, if any, will depend on many factors, including, but not limited to market acceptance of the Company’s LTL service management products or other services and the successful implementation of our strategy.
4.
Because we have no saleable product or service, acquired or developed, we face a high risk of business failure.
The Company has not yet acquired or fully developed any product or services that are saleable in the marketplace. We may not be able to acquire or internally develop any product or services in the future because of the lack of funds or financing to do so. In order for us to fully develop or acquire any products or services, we must be able to secure the necessary financing, beyond just the proceeds of our recently completed direct public offering. In the early stages of our operations, we intend to keep costs to a minimum. The cost to develop our product or services as currently outlined will be in excess of $300,000. We have no established source of funds to undertake the business strategy as outlined. Until we obtain funding, if ever, we will keep our operating costs as low as possible with our founder, and Chief Executive Officer providing most of the administrative and other functions on his own without any cash compensation. We currently use the services of a coding and smart-app development firm with which the Company has been working with on an as “needed basis.” We do not plan to pay them in full or even partially pay them for their services. Any payments that may occur would be over an extended period of time, even once we complete our direct public offering. We currently do not have any specific payment terms with this firm to continue with their services, and we may need to seek the services of another firm to replace them if they require payment for services that we cannot meet at the time. This methodology may result in our product development being extended for another two to three years. We believe that our LTL management information services segment (once developed, if at all) may generate revenues earlier than the LTL service management system products (software) segment (once developed, if at all). If we are unable to obtain adequate funding or financing, the Company faces the likelihood of business failure. There are no assurances that we will be able to raise any funds or establish any financing for the Company’s growth.
In addition, the Company’s profitability, if any, could be materially and adversely impacted if any one or more of its acquired or developed technological products or services were to experience poor operating results. The Company’s ability to achieve profitability will be dependent on the ability of its intended products or services to generate sufficient operating cash flow to fund intended growth and/or acquisitions. There can be no assurance that the Company’s results of operations will be profitable or that our strategy will be successful or even begin to generate any revenues.
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We may not have or ever have the resources or ability to implement and manage our growth strategy.
Although the Company expects to experience growth based on the ability to implement and execute its business strategy, actual operations may never occur because the business plan may never be fully implemented because of the lack of funds in order to do so. If the Company’s business plan and growth strategy are implemented, of which no assurances can be provided, a significant strain on management, operating systems and/or financial resources will be imposed. Failure by the Company’s management to manage this expected growth, if it occurs, or unexpected difficulties are encountered during this growth, could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s results of operations or financial condition.
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The Company’s ability to operate profitable revenue generating product or service lines (if we are able to establish any product or service lines at all) will depend upon a number of factors, including (i) identifying appropriate and satisfactory distribution channels, (ii) generating sufficient funds from our then existing operations or obtaining third-party financing or additional capital to develop new product and/or service lines, (iii) the Company’s management team and its financial and accounting controls and (iv) staffing, training and retention of skilled personnel. Certain of these factors most likely will be beyond the Company’s control and may be adversely affected by the economy or actions taken by competing businesses. Moreover, potential products or services that may meet the Company’s focus and other criteria for developing new products and/or services, if we are able to develop or acquire them at all, are believed to be severely limited. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to execute and manage a growth strategy effectively or at all.
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We may not be successful in hiring technical personnel because of the competitive market for qualified technical people.
The Company’s success depends largely on its ability to attract, hire, train and retain highly qualified technical and industry knowledgeable personnel to provide the Company’s services. Competition for such personnel is intense. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in attracting and retaining the technical and industry specific personnel it requires to conduct and expand its operations successfully and to differentiate itself from its competition. The Company’s results of operations and growth prospects could be materially adversely affected if the Company were unable to attract, hire, train and retain such qualified personnel.
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Our reliance on referrals from outside contacts to develop business may not be effective.
The Company initially will rely on our founder, and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Ludington, for a majority of its business leads and believes that other LTL industry consultants may be an important source of business referrals in the foreseeable future. However, as is typical within the industry, there are no contractual requirements that these industry consultants or outside reps will use or recommend the Company’s services in connection with product sales or the sale of specific services offered by the Company. We currently have no contracts or agreements in place with any outside sales reps or business professionals (industry consultants). No assurances can be given that using independent outside sales reps will result in any meaningful numbers of sales leads or referrals.
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Fluctuations in our financial results make quarterly comparisons and financial forecasting difficult.
The Company’s future or projected quarterly operating results may vary and reduced levels of earnings or continued losses may be experienced in one or more quarters. Fluctuations in the Company’s quarterly operating results could result from a variety of factors, including changes in the levels of revenues derived from LTL service management applications development, and/or LTL service managed services, the size and timing of significant orders, changes in the mix of employee and subcontractors on projects, the timing of new offerings by the Company or its competitors, new office openings by the Company, changes in pricing policies by the Company or its competitors, market acceptance of new and enhanced services offered by the Company or its competitors, changes in operating expenses, availability of qualified technical personnel, disruptions in sources of related services and services, the effect of potential acquisitions and industry and general economic factors. The Company will have limited or no control over many of these factors. The Company’s expense levels we believe will be based upon, in part, on its expectations as to future or projected revenues. If revenue levels are below expectations, operating results are likely to be adversely affected.
Because of these fluctuations and uncertainties, our operating results may fail to meet the expectations of investors. If this happens, any trading price of our common stock would almost certainly be materially adversely affected.
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We will face competition from businesses with significantly greater resources and name recognition.
The markets in which the Company intends to operate are characterized by intense competition from several types of solution and technical service providers. These include value added resellers (VARs), LTL and logistics management systems integrators and freight delivery business consultants, as well as computer, hardware and other software providers. In addition, there can be no assurance that the Company’s prospective and potential clients will not seek to further develop their in-house capabilities and perform internally more or all of the services that the Company intends to offer. The Company expects to face further intense competition from new market entrants and alliances among competitors as the convergence of information processing and telecommunications used in the LTL management systems continue. Many current and potential competitors have significantly greater financial, technical, marketing and other resources than the Company. As a result, they may be better able to respond or adapt to new or emerging technologies and changes than the Company. They may be able to devote greater resources to the development, marketing and sales of services than the Company. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to compete successfully. The Company generally expects to encounter intense competition. The Company will compete for revenues with other software providers that offer similar services or with limited adaption used in place of ours. In addition, the Company will face numerous competitors, both strategic and financial, in attempting to obtain competitive services. Many actual and potential competitors we believe are part of much larger organizations with substantially greater financial, marketing and other resources than us. There is no assurance that the Company will be able to compete effectively against any of our future competitors.
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10.
Our potential users of our intended software and services operate in a highly regulated industry, and changes in existing regulations or violations of existing or future regulations could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and profitability.
While we are a technology driven business, our potential users operate in the United States pursuant to operating authority granted to them by the Department of Transportation, or DOT. Our potential user’s drivers must comply with the safety and fitness regulations of DOT, including those relating to drug and alcohol testing and hours-of-service. Such matters as equipment weight, aerodynamics and dimensions are subject to government regulations. Our potential user’s may become subject to new or more restrictive regulations relating to fuel emissions, drivers' hours-of-service, ergonomics, on-board reporting of operations, collective bargaining, security at ports and other matters affecting safety or operating methods. Other agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, and the Department of Homeland Security regulate their equipment, operations and drivers. Several proposed and pending regulations also may have a material adverse effect on our potential user’s business, results of operations and profitability that will in turn effect our business and prospects. Future laws and regulations may be more stringent, require changes in our potential user’s operating practices, influence the demand for transportation services, or require them to incur significant additional costs. Higher costs incurred by our potential user’s and their suppliers who will ultimately pass the costs onto the user’s and ultimately onto us through higher prices which could adversely affect our results of operations and the planned use of our intended product and services.
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, federal, state and municipal authorities implemented and continue to implement various security measures, including checkpoints and travel restrictions on large trucks. The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, has adopted regulations that require determination by the TSA that each driver who applies for or renews his or her license for carrying hazardous materials is not a security threat. This could reduce the pool of qualified drivers, which could require our intended user’s to increase driver compensation, limit their growth, or cause their tractors to sit idle, which will in turn could affect us negatively and hurt our chances of success. These regulations also could limit the availability of equipment for hazardous material shipments and as a result, our intended customers may fail to meet the needs of their customers or may incur increased expenses because of these regulations in turn affecting our prospects. These security measures could indirectly negatively impact our results of operations.
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Our intended users business is subject to certain factors that affect the freight delivery business and are largely beyond their control, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.
While we are a technology driven business our potential users are subject to certain conditions and events that affect the freight delivery business and that are largely beyond their control, any of which could have a material adverse effect on the results of their operations as well as our operations. These include license and registration fees, tolls, strikes or other work stoppages at customer, port, border or other shipping locations, damage or deterioration of infrastructure, roadways, railways or bridges, taxes associated with infrastructure repair or maintenance, actual or threatened armed conflicts or terrorist attacks, efforts to combat terrorism, military action against a foreign state or groups located in a foreign state or heightened security requirements which could lead to reduced economic demand, reduced availability of credit or temporary closing of shipping locations, transportation routes or U.S. borders. Such conditions or events or enhanced security measures in connection with such events could impair our intended users’ business as well as our operating efficiency and productivity and result in higher operating costs far outweighing any chance for our product and services to make a profit.
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Our intended users have significant ongoing capital requirements that could adversely affect financial condition, results of operations and cash flows if they are unable to generate sufficient cash from operations.
The freight delivery business is capital-intensive. Historically, we believe that many of our potential users have been dependent on cash from operations, borrowings from financial institutions and leases to expand and upgrade revenue equipment. We believe that additional expenditures will be required to upgrade and expand their revenue equipment fleet. If they, the intended users of our product and services are unable to generate sufficient cash from operations and obtain borrowing on favorable terms in the future, they may have to limit their fleet size, enter into less favorable financing arrangements or operate their revenue equipment for longer periods of time. Accordingly, our potential users may be unable to decrease the age of, or expand, their revenue equipment fleet, which would materially and adversely affect their financial condition which in turn would materially and adversely affect our business by less use of our intended product and services or no use at all.
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There are significant potential conflicts of interest.
Our personnel will be required to commit substantial time to our affairs and, accordingly, our personnel may have a conflict of interest in allocating management time among business activities. In the course of other business activities, certain key personnel may become aware of business opportunities which may be appropriate for presentation to us, as well as other businesses with which they are affiliated. As such, there may be conflicts of interest in determining to which entity a particular business opportunity should be presented to.
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In an effort to resolve such potential conflicts of interest, we have entered into a written agreement with Mr. Ludington specifying that any business opportunities that he may become aware of independently or directly through his association with us (as opposed to disclosure to him of such business opportunities by management or consultants associated with other business entities) would be presented by him solely to the Company. A copy of this agreement was filed as Exhibit 10.1 to our Form S-1 registration statement.
We cannot provide any assurance that our efforts to eliminate the potential impact of conflicts of interest will be effective.
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We will need to establish additional relationships with local software coders and information technology (IT) consultants to fully develop and market our company and its intended products and/or services.
We do not possess all of the resources necessary to develop and commercialize our intended LTL service management products and/or LTL management information services on a large commercial scale. We will need to develop and establish a network of third-party agents that will help us in carrying out our intended market rollout, as well as develop and then enhance marketing and sales strategy through arrangements with software coders and other information technology consultants to develop and commercialize our planned LTL management information services. If we are unable to enlist the services of third-party vendors, or seek out the necessary IT consultants, our business will suffer.
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On June 16, 2017 we became subject to the periodic reporting requirements of Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. This requires us to incur audit and legal fees in connection with the preparation of such reports. These additional costs could reduce or eliminate our ability to earn a profit.
Following the effective date of our Registration statement filed on Form S-1, we were required to file periodic reports with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. In order to comply with these requirements, our independent registered public accounting firm will now be required to review our financial statements on a quarterly basis and audit our financial statements on an annual basis. Moreover, our legal counsel will be required to review and assist in the preparation of these very reports. Costs charged by these professionals for such services cannot be accurately predicted at this time because factors such as the number and type of transactions that we engage in and the complexity of our reports cannot be determined at this time and will affect the amount of time spent by our auditors and attorneys. However, the incurrence of such costs will obviously be an expense to our operations and thus have a negative effect on our ability to meet our overhead requirements and earn a profit. We may be exposed to potential risks resulting from any new requirements under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. If we cannot provide reliable financial reports or prevent fraud, our business and operating results could be harmed, investors could lose confidence in our reported financial information, and the trading price of our common stock, if a market ever develops, could drop significantly.
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Our internal controls may be inadequate, which could cause our financial reporting to be unreliable and lead to misinformation being disseminated to the public.
Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over our financial reporting. As defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f), internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, the principal executive and principal financial officer and effected by the board of directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and includes those policies and procedures that:
pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company;
provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and/or directors of the Company; and
provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the Company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
We will not be required to provide an assessment of the effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting until our second annual report after the completion of our direct public offering. And our auditor’s attestation of management’s evaluation of effectiveness of the internal controls is not required as long as we are an emerging growth company under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act and/or a smaller reporting company as that term is defined. Despite these requirements, any delayed implementation of our internal controls may be inadequate or ineffective, which could cause our financial reporting to be unreliable and lead to misinformation being disseminated. Investors relying upon this misinformation may make an uninformed investment decision.
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We are an emerging growth company within the meaning of the Securities Act, and as a consequence of taking advantage of certain exemptions from reporting requirements that are available to emerging growth companies, our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with public company effective dates.
We are an emerging growth company as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Pursuant to Section 107 of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, we may take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards, meaning that we can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. We have chosen to take advantage of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards applicable to public companies to delay adoption of such standards until such standards are made applicable to private companies. Accordingly, our financial statements may not be comparable to the financial statements of public companies that comply with such new or revised accounting standards.
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The costs of being a public company could result in us being unable to continue as a going concern.
As a public company, we will be required to comply with numerous financial reporting and legal requirements, including those pertaining to annual audits, quarterly review and reporting and internal controls. The costs of this compliance could be quite significant. If revenues are insufficient, or we cannot satisfy many of these costs through the issuance of shares, we may be unable to satisfy these costs through the normal course of business which would result in being unable to continue as a going concern.
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Having only one director limits our ability to establish effective independent corporate governance procedures and increases the control of our founder and Chief Executive Officer.
We have only one director who serves as our sole executive officer. Accordingly, we cannot establish board committees comprised of independent members to oversee functions like compensation or audit issues. In addition, currently a vote of the board of directors is decided in favor of our chairman (who is our founder and Chief Executive Officer), which gives him complete control over all corporate issues and decisions.
Until we have a larger board of directors that include some independent members, if ever, there will be limited oversight of our founder and Chief Executive Officer’s decisions and activities and little ability for minority shareholders to challenge or reverse those actions and decisions.
Risks Related to Our Common Stock
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The Company sold shares without the assistance of an underwriter.
Our shares of common stock were offered on our behalf by Mr. Ludington, our founder and Chief Executive Officer, on a best-efforts basis. No broker-dealer was retained as an underwriter and no broker-dealer was under any obligation to purchase any shares of common stock. There were no firm commitments to purchase any of the shares. The sale of a small number of shares of common stock increases the likelihood of no market ever developing for our common stock.
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Only a few persons purchased shares of our common stock; they may lose their entire investment without us being able to develop a market for our shares.
While all of our offering was sold, a limited number of investors purchased our shares, despite this we may be unable to create a public market of any kind for the shares sold. In such an event, it is highly likely that the entire investment of by investors in our common stock would be lost.
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Shareholders may be diluted significantly through our efforts to obtain financing and satisfy obligations through the issuance of additional shares of our common stock.
We have no committed source of financing. Wherever possible, our board of directors will attempt to use non-cash consideration to satisfy obligations. In many instances, we believe that the non-cash consideration will consist of restricted shares of our common stock. Our board of directors has authority, without action or vote of the shareholders, to issue all or part of the authorized (100,000,000) shares but unissued (78,000,000) shares. In addition, if a trading market develops for our common stock, we may attempt to raise capital by selling shares of our common stock, possibly at a discount to market. These actions will result in dilution of the ownership interests of existing shareholders, further dilute common stock book value, and that dilution may be material.
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The interests of shareholders may be hurt because we can issue shares of our common stock to individuals or entities that support existing management with such issuances serving to enhance management’s ability to maintain control.
Our board of directors has authority, without action or vote of the shareholders, to issue all or part of the authorized but unissued common shares. Such issuances may be issued to parties or entities committed to supporting existing management and the interests of existing management which may not be the same as the interests of other shareholders. Our ability to issue shares without shareholder approval serves to enhance existing management’s ability to maintain control of our company.
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Our articles of incorporation provide for indemnification of officers and directors at our expense and limit their liability that may result in a major cost to us and hurt the interests of our shareholders because corporate resources may be expended for the benefit of officers and/or directors.
Our Articles of Incorporation at Article XI provide for indemnification as follows: “No director or officer of the corporation shall be personally liable to the corporation or any of its stockholders for damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director or officer; provided, however, that the foregoing provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director or officer: (i) for acts or omissions which involve intentional misconduct, fraud or knowing violation of law; or (ii) the payment of dividends in violation of Section 78.300 of the Nevada Revised Statutes. Any repeal or modification of an Article by the stockholders of the corporation shall be prospective only, and shall not adversely affect any limitation of the personal liability of a director or officer of the corporation for acts or omissions prior to such repeal or modification.”
We have been advised that, in the opinion of the SEC, indemnification for liabilities arising under federal securities laws is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933 and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification for liabilities arising under federal securities laws, other than the payment by us of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding, is asserted by a director, officer or controlling person in connection with our activities, we will (unless in the opinion of our counsel, the matter has been settled by controlling precedent) submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction, the question whether indemnification by us is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. The legal process relating to this matter if it were to occur is likely to be very costly and may result in us receiving negative publicity, either of which factors is likely to materially reduce the market and price for our shares, if such a market ever develops.
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Currently, there is no established public market for our securities, and there can be no assurances that any established public market will ever develop or that our common stock will be quoted for trading and, even if quoted, it is likely to be subject to significant price fluctuations.
Prior to this Quarterly Report, there has not been any established trading market for our common stock, and no public market whatsoever for our securities. While a market maker has been formerly approached to file an application with FINRA on our behalf, they may not be successful. The market maker is expected to file that application in order to be able to quote our shares of common stock on the OTCBB maintained by FINRA. This market maker will only file this application upon the effectiveness of our registration statement. There can be no assurance that this market maker’s application, will be accepted by FINRA nor can we estimate as to how much time this application requires. We are not permitted to file such application on our own behalf. If this application is accepted by FINRA, there can be no assurances as to whether –
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any market for our shares will develop;
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the prices at which our common stock will trade; or
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the extent to which investor interest in us will lead to the development of an active, liquid trading market. Active trading markets generally result in lower price volatility and more efficient execution of buy and sell orders for investors.
If our shares of common stock are able to be quoted on the OTCBB, we will then try, through a broker-dealer and it’s clearing firm, to become eligible with the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) in order to permit our shares to trade electronically. Generally if an issuer is not “DTC-eligible,” then its shares cannot be electronically transferred between brokerage accounts, which, based on the realities of the marketplace as it exists today (especially the OTCBB), means that shares of a company will not be traded (technically the shares can be traded manually between accounts, but this takes days and is not a realistic option for companies relying on broker dealers for stock transactions - like all companies on the OTCBB. What this boils down to is that while DTC-eligibility is not a requirement to trade on the OTCBB, it is a necessity to process trades on the OTCBB if a company’s stock is going to trade with any volume. There are no assurances that our shares will ever become DTC-eligible or, if they do, how long it will take.
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In addition, our common stock is unlikely to be followed by any market analysts, and there may be few institutions acting as market makers for our common stock. Either of these factors could adversely affect the liquidity and trading price of our common stock. Until our common stock is fully distributed and an orderly market develops in our common stock, if ever, the price at which it trades is likely to fluctuate significantly. Prices for our common stock will be determined in the marketplace and may be influenced by many factors, including the depth and liquidity of the market for shares of our common stock, developments affecting our business, including the impact of the factors referred to elsewhere in these Risk Factors, investor perception of the Company and general economic and market conditions. No assurances can be given that an orderly or liquid market will ever develop for the shares of our common stock.
Because of the anticipated low price of the securities being registered, many brokerage firms may not be willing to effect transactions in these securities. Purchasers of our securities should be aware that any market that develops in our stock will be subject to the penny stock restrictions.
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Any market that develops in shares of our common stock will be subject to the penny stock regulations and restrictions pertaining to low priced stocks may create a lack of liquidity and make trading difficult or impossible.
The trading of our securities, if any, will be in the over-the-counter bulletin board market which is commonly referred to as the “OTCBB” as maintained by FINRA. As a result, an investor may find it difficult to dispose of, or to obtain accurate quotations as to the price of, our securities.
Rule 3a51-1 of the Exchange Act establishes the definition of a “penny stock,” for purposes relevant to us, as any equity security that has a minimum bid price of less than $5.00 per share or with an exercise price of less than $5.00 per share, subject to a limited number of exceptions which are not available to us. It is likely that our shares will be considered to be penny stocks for the immediately foreseeable future. This classification severely and adversely affects any market liquidity for our common stock.
For any transaction involving a penny stock, unless exempt, the penny stock rules require that a broker or dealer approve a person's account for transactions in penny stocks and the broker or dealer receive from the investor a written agreement to the transaction setting forth the identity and quantity of the penny stock to be purchased. In order to approve a person's account for transactions in penny stocks, the broker or dealer must obtain financial information and investment experience and objectives of the person and make a reasonable determination that the transactions in penny stocks are suitable for that person and that that person has sufficient knowledge and experience in financial matters to be capable of evaluating the risks of transactions in penny stocks.
The broker or dealer must also deliver, prior to any transaction in a penny stock, a disclosure schedule prepared by the SEC relating to the penny stock market, which, in highlight form, sets forth:
the basis on which the broker or dealer made the suitability determination; and
the broker or dealer received a signed, written agreement from the investor prior to the transaction.
Disclosure also has to be made about the risks of investing in penny stock in both public offerings and in secondary trading and commissions’ payable to both the broker-dealer and the registered representative, current quotations for the securities and the rights and remedies available to an investor in cases of fraud in penny stock transactions. Additionally, monthly statements have to be sent disclosing recent price information for the penny stock held in the account and information on the limited market in penny stocks.
Because of these regulations, broker-dealers may not wish to engage in the above-referenced necessary paperwork and disclosures or may encounter difficulties in their attempt to sell shares of our common stock, which may affect the ability of selling shareholders or other holders to sell their shares in any secondary market and have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity in any secondary market. These additional sales practice and disclosure requirements could impede the sale of our securities, if and when our securities become publicly traded. In addition, the liquidity for our securities may decrease, with a corresponding decrease in the price of our securities. Our shares, in all probability, will be subject to such penny stock rules for the foreseeable future and our shareholders will, in all likelihood, find it difficult to sell their securities.
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The market for penny stocks has experienced numerous frauds and abuses that could adversely impact investors in our stock.
Company management believes that the market for penny stocks has suffered from patterns of fraud and abuse. Such patterns include:
Control of the market for the security by one or a few broker-dealers that are often related to the promoter or issuer;
Manipulation of prices through prearranged matching of purchases and sales and false and misleading press releases;
“Boiler room” practices involving high pressure sales tactics and unrealistic price projections by sales persons;
Excessive and undisclosed bid-ask differentials and markups by selling broker-dealers; and
Wholesale dumping of the same securities by promoters and broker-dealers after prices have been manipulated to a desired level, along with the inevitable collapse of those prices with consequent investor losses.
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Any trading market that may develop may be restricted by virtue of state securities “Blue Sky” laws that prohibit trading absent compliance with individual state laws. These restrictions may make it difficult or impossible for us to sell shares in those states.
Currently there is no established public market for our common stock, there can be no assurance that any established public market will develop in the foreseeable future. Transfer of our common stock may also be restricted under the securities or securities regulations laws promulgated by various states and foreign jurisdictions, commonly referred to as “Blue Sky” laws. Absent compliance with such individual state laws, our common stock may not be traded in such jurisdictions. Because the securities registered hereunder have not been registered for resale under the blue sky laws of any state, the holders of such shares and persons who desire to purchase them in any trading market that might develop in the future, should be aware that there may be significant state blue sky law restrictions upon the ability of investors to sell the securities and of purchasers to purchase the securities. These restrictions prohibit the secondary trading of our common stock. We currently do not intend to and may not be able to qualify securities for resale in at least 18 states which do not offer manual exemptions (or may offer manual exemptions but may not to offer one to us if we are considered to be a shell company at the time of application) and require shares to be qualified before they can be resold by our shareholders. Accordingly, investors should consider the secondary market for our securities to be a limited one.
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Our board of directors (consisting of one person, our founder and sole officer) has the authority, without stockholder approval, to issue preferred stock with terms that may not be beneficial to common stockholders and with the ability to affect adversely stockholder voting power and perpetuate control over us.
Our articles of incorporation allow us to issue shares of preferred stock without any vote or further action by our stockholders. Our board of directors has the authority to fix and determine the relative rights and preferences of preferred stock. Our board of directors has the authority to issue preferred stock without further stockholder approval, including large blocks of preferred stock. As a result, our board of directors could authorize the issuance of a series of preferred stock that would grant to holders the preferred right to our assets upon liquidation, the right to receive dividend payments before dividends are distributed to the holders of common stock, and the right to the redemption of the shares, together with a premium, prior to the redemption of our common stock.
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The ability of our founder to control our business may limit or eliminate minority shareholders’ ability to influence corporate affairs.
Our founder owns an aggregate of 68% of our outstanding common stock. Because of his beneficial stock ownership, our founder continues to be in a position to continue to elect our board of directors, decide all matters requiring stockholder approval and determine our policies. The interests of our founder may differ from the interests of other shareholders with respect to the issuance of shares, business transactions with or sales to other companies, selection of officers and directors and other business decisions. Minority shareholders would have no way of overriding decisions made by our founder. This level of control may also have an adverse impact on the market value of our shares because our founder may institute or undertake transactions, policies or programs that may result in losses, may not take any steps to increase our visibility in the financial community, or may sell sufficient numbers of shares to significantly decrease our price per share.
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A significant amount of our presently issued and outstanding common shares are restricted under Rule 144 of the Securities Act, as amended. When the restriction on any or all of these shares is lifted, and the shares are sold in the open market, the price of our common stock could be adversely affected.
Most of the presently outstanding shares of common stock (15,000,000 shares of 22,000,000 shares of common stock) are “restricted securities” as defined under Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act and may only be sold pursuant to an effective registration statement or an exemption from registration, if available. Rule 144 provides in essence that a person who is not an affiliate and has held restricted securities for a prescribed period of at least six (6) months if purchased from a reporting issuer or twelve (12) months (as is the case herein) if purchased from a non-reporting Company, may, under certain conditions, sell all or any of his shares without volume limitation, in brokerage transactions. Affiliates, however, may not sell shares in excess of 1% of the Company’s outstanding common stock every three months. As a result of revisions to Rule 144 which became effective on February 15, 2008, there is no limit on the amount of restricted securities that may be sold by a non-affiliate (i.e., a stockholder who has not been an officer, director or control person for at least 90 consecutive days) after the restricted securities have been held by the owner for the aforementioned prescribed period of time. A sale under Rule 144 or under any other exemption from the Act, if available, or pursuant to registration of shares of common stock of present stockholders, may have a depressive effect upon the price of the common stock in any market that may develop.
All 15,000,000 issued and outstanding shares of our restricted common stock are owned by our founder, which consists of 11,000,000 and 4,000,000 shares issued for organizational services and intangible assets, respectively, which may be sold commencing one year from the date our offering was completed.
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We do not expect to pay cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
We have never paid cash dividends on our common stock. We do not expect to pay cash dividends on our common stock at any time in the foreseeable future. The future payment of dividends directly depends upon our future earnings, capital requirements, financial requirements and other factors that our board of directors will consider. Since we do not anticipate paying cash dividends on our common stock, return on your investment, if any, will depend solely on an increase, if any, in the market value of our common stock.
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Because we are not subject to compliance rules requiring the adoption of certain corporate governance measures, our stockholders have limited protection against interested director transactions, conflicts of interest and similar matters.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as rule changes proposed and enacted by the SEC, the New York and American Stock Exchanges and the NASDAQ Stock Market, as a result of Sarbanes-Oxley, require the implementation of various measures relating to corporate governance. These measures are designed to enhance the integrity of corporate management and the securities markets and apply to securities that are listed on those exchanges or the NASDAQ Stock Market. Because we are not presently required to comply with many of the corporate governance provisions and because we chose to avoid incurring the substantial additional costs associated with such compliance any sooner than legally required, we have not yet adopted these measures.
Because none of our directors (currently one person) are independent directors, we do not currently have independent audit or compensation committees. As a result, our directors have the ability, among other things, to determine their own level of compensation. Until we comply with such corporate governance measures, regardless of whether such compliance is required, the absence of such standards of corporate governance may leave our stockholders without protections against interested director transactions, conflicts of interest, if any, and similar matters. As a result, our investors may be reluctant to provide us with funds necessary to expand our operations.
We intend to comply with all corporate governance measures relating to director independence as and when required. However, we may find it very difficult or be unable to attract and retain qualified officers, directors or members of board committees required to provide for our effective management as a result of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has resulted in a series of rules and regulations by the SEC that increase responsibilities and liabilities of directors and executive officers. The perceived increased personal risk associated with these recent changes may make it more costly or deter qualified individuals from accepting these roles.
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You may have limited access to information regarding our business because our obligations to file periodic reports with the SEC could be automatically suspended under certain circumstances.
The date our registration statement became effective, we were automatically subject to certain informational requirements of the Exchange Act, as amended and we are required to file periodic reports (i.e., annual, quarterly and material events) with the SEC which shall be immediately available to the public for inspection and copying. In the event that during the year that our registration statement became effective (which occurred on June 15, 2017), these reporting obligations may be automatically suspended by us under Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act if we have less than 300 shareholders and do not file a registration statement on Form 8-A (of which we have no current plans to file). Again if this action occurs after the year in which our registration statement becomes effective (after June 15, 2018), we may be no longer be obligated to file such periodic reports with the SEC and therefore access to our business information could be even more restricted. After our registration statement filed on Form S-1 became effective (June 15, 2017), we are required to deliver periodic reports to security holders as proscribed by the Exchange Act, as amended. However, we are not required to furnish proxy statements to security holders and our directors, officers and principal beneficial owners are not required to report their beneficial ownership of securities to the SEC pursuant to Section 16 of the Exchange Act until we have both 500 or more security holders and greater than $10 million in assets. Access to information regarding our business and operations will be limited.
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If we are designated a shell company your ability to resell your shares would be limited.
A significant portion of our presently issued and outstanding shares of our common stock are “restricted securities” as defined under Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act and may only be sold pursuant to an effective registration statement or an exemption from registration, if available. The SEC has adopted final rules amending Rule 144 which have become effective on February 15, 2008. Pursuant to the new Rule 144, one year must elapse from the time a “shell company,” as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act and Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act, ceases to be a “shell company” and files a Form 8-K addressing Item 5.06 with such information as may be required in a Form 10 Registration Statement with the SEC, before a restricted shareholder can resell their holdings in reliance on Rule 144. The Form 10 information or disclosure is equivalent to the information that a company would be required to file if it were registering a class of securities on Form 10 under the Exchange Act. Under amended Rule 144, restricted or unrestricted securities that were initially issued by a reporting or non-reporting shell company or a company that was at any time previously a reporting or non-reporting shell company, can only be resold in reliance on Rule 144 if the following conditions are met:
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the issuer of the securities that was formerly a reporting or non-reporting shell company has ceased to be a shell company;
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the issuer of the securities is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act;
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the issuer of the securities has filed all reports and material required to be filed under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as applicable, during the preceding twelve months (or shorter period that the Issuer was required to file such reports and materials), other than Form 8-K reports; and
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at least one year has elapsed from the time the issuer filed the current Form 10 type information with the SEC reflecting its status as an entity that is not a shell company.
At the present time, we are not classified as a “shell company” under Rule 405 of the Securities Act Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. To the extent the Company is designated a shell you would be unable to sell your shares under Rule 144.
For all of the foregoing reasons and others set forth herein, an investment in our securities in any market that may develop in the future involves a high degree of risk.