CASHING OUT WITHOUT SELLING OUT
How Business Owners Can Use the Capital Markets to Unlock Wealth and Liquidity, Keep Control, and Stay CompensatedBy Frank Ikechukwu IgwealorRecorded TrackLength13h 39m
About this audiobook
You built something valuable, yet nearly everything you own is locked inside one company. Everyone tells you there are only two choices: keep the business and stay illiquid, or sell it and walk away.
There is a third door.
In Cashing Out Without Selling Out shows established business owners how to sell a slice of the company to public investors, keep control of the whole, and pay themselves a real, board-approved salary to run what they built. The principle is simple: sell paper, not the keys. Liquidity is a percentage. Control is a structure. Salary is a contract.
why a listing is a financing system rather than an ATM.
Situation-based playbooks, case studies, a step-by-step blueprint, and eleven practical appendices turn the ideas into action. The appendices include a readiness scorecard, a founder employment term sheet, and a dilution worksheet.
For owners with real revenue and audited or auditable books who want cash without giving up the company.
Cash out. Stay in. Keep building.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics, Self-Help
Length13 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 16, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CASHING OUT WITHOUT SELLING OUT
2Chapter 1. The Liquidity Trap and the Conventional Ways Out
3Chapter 3. Public Company, Capital-Market Ladder, and Listing Standards
4Chapter 4. The OTC Markets, the Buyers, and the Purpose of Public Capital
5Chapter 5. What Your Business Is Worth, Privately and Publicly
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6Chapter 7. Public-Market Readiness and Cleaning the Corporate House
7Part V — Engineering the Transaction
8Chapter 10. The Secondary Component and the Hybrid Transaction
9Chapter 11. The Menu of Doors, the Underwritten IPO, and Form S-1
10Chapter 13. SPAC Mergers, Uplisting, and Choosing Your Pathway
11Chapter 15. The Board, Protective Provisions, and the Limits of Control
12Chapter 19. Trading Plans, Registered Secondaries, and Borrowing Against Shares Part 1
13Chapter 19. Trading Plans, Registered Secondaries, and Borrowing Against Shares Part 2
14Chapter 19. Trading Plans, Registered Secondaries, and Borrowing Against Shares Part 3
15Chapter 30. The Blueprint, Phases I–III: Goals, Readiness, and Advisers
163. Quality of Earnings and Audit Readiness — 15 Points
174. Internal Controls and Finance Function — 10 Points
187. Corporate Records and Capitalization — 10 Points
1910. Owner Temperament and Alignment — 5 Points
20Chapter 31. Executing the Blueprint: Calendar, Term Sheet, and Decision Rule
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