Emmis Capital LLC

Emmis Capital helps micro-cap companies accelerate their business objectives by listing on senior stock exchanges such as NASDAQ, NYSE and NEO. We provide transformative bridge financing to micro-cap companies seeking to list on senior exchanges. We are selective with our investments with a foc ... see more

Founder and Managing Member

Exchange Listing LLC

Exchange Listing was formed to provide growth companies with direct access to a one-stop solution in the strategic planning and implementation of listing on a senior exchange such as NASDAQ or NYSE in the most cost-effective and efficient process available.

We offer capital markets advisory services to private companies looking to access the public capital markets as well as public companies looking to grow to the next level. The scope of our advisory services include, but are not limited to:

-     IPO readiness assessment
-     Overall capital raising strategy
-     Guidance on IR / PR
-     Underwriter introduction / selection
-     Auditor/Legal evaluation, selection and introduction
-     Design of financial structure

Our Role: Your Partners:

-We are hands-on, frontline partners throughout the listing and funding process.

-We leverage our decades of Wall Street experience and a broad array of relationships with investment bankers, investors, attorneys, auditors, accountants, IR/PR firms, independent directors and the exchanges to facilitate your listing and funding.

-We orchestrate a tailored, company-specific yet systematic process for the listing, which enhances competitiveness and maximizing stakeholder benefits.

-We align our interests with your company management, board of directors and shareholders as equity partners to facilitate a successful listing and funding.

-Basically, our goal is to partner with you to achieve a objectives that are the most beneficial to your company and your shareholders


Our Principals:

-The principals of the firm have extensive capital markets backgrounds, track records and experience in the planning and implementation of listing on senior stock exchanges, collectively bringing over 100 years of Wall Street Experience.

-Our founders, strategic partners and advisors are entrepreneurs drawn from investment banking, securities law, corporate governance and business management.

Chief Executive Officer

Forbes Finance Council

I am delighted to join the Forbes Business Council, which is an invitation-only community for executives in accounting, financial planning, wealth and asset management, and investment firms.

Member and Contributor

Grandview Capital Partners

Grandview Capital provides strategic financial, technical and innovative corporate advisory services to our clients who are emerging growth companies. Grandview’s pledge to our clients business is our commitment to quality, integrity, and success.

Founder, Chief Executive Officer 

Exchange Listing Publishing

The Entrepreneur’s IPO is a handbook that outlines exactly what to expect when pursuing a micro or small-cap IPO. Written from the perspective of someone with over 35+ years as a C-suite executive for public and private companies and an expert in navigating the ever-changing climate of Wall Street. This book provides in-depth knowledge and unique perspectives on the process required to IPO your company and the distinctive elements needed when seeking out the right bankers, investors, industry experts, and board members. The Entrepreneur’s IPO is a book that can practically guide any micro and small-cap company to IPO, proving that it is possible to IPO your company, and you do not need to be a unicorn to do it.

Author

Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc.

Staffing 360 Solutions, Inc. NASDAQ: STAF, is an emerging public company in the international
staffing sector engaged in the acquisition of domestic and international staffing agencies. As part
of its highly targeted consolidation model, Staffing 360 is pursuing a broad spectrum of staffing
companies in the information technology (“IT”), financial, accounting and healthcare industries
with a particular emphasis on Cyber Security. The Company commenced revenue generation in October, 2012 with an initial customer base that includes a Fortune 100 company and is pursuing additional opportunities in India. The Company is also currently developing a proprietary division focused on veterans’ staffing.

Co Founder - Chairman of the Board

CEO of Exchange Listing | Founder of Emmis Capital IPO Fund | Author of 'The Entrepreneur's IPO' |

As a skilled capital market advisor, I partner with emerging growth companies to provide access to capital and facilitate completing an IPO on Nasdaq or NYSE stock exchanges or advancing as a public company. 

In my 35+ years as a C-suite executive for public and private companies, I’ve established myself as a trusted resource in navigating the ever-changing climate of Wall Street. I have successfully launched several highly innovative companies through the complicated structuring and execution process to meet listing and funding objectives. 
I guide companies through the preparation, implementation, interpretation of actual listing analysis and metrics, and offer aftermarket support with authentic and unique value propositions.

I've successfully ushered entrepreneurial emerging growth businesses to their IPOs and helped them become uniquely positioned to access growth capital and international capital markets. How? By providing results-oriented, direct access to a one-stop solution in the strategic planning and implementation of listing on a senior exchange most cost-effectively and efficiently possible. 

I'm passionate about providing leadership in varied aspects of corporate finance and capital markets by drawing on my expertise with a myriad of diverse and satisfied global entrepreneurial clients. I've also just written my debut book, The Entrepreneur's IPO, a roadmap for going public as a small/micro-cap company. If you would like to know more about the book or order a copy, click here: https://pgoldstein.co/.

If you would like to get in touch please send me a personal message!

Peter Goldstein

One of the world's largest companies has made a quiet yet significant shift.

Walmart is moving its listing from the New York Stock Exchange to Nasdaq.

A company with more than $800 billion in market value. Listed on the NYSE since 1970. Now choosing a new home.

Moves like this are never about optics. They are about alignment.

Walmart cited shared values with Nasdaq. A technology-forward approach. Innovation. Client focus. These are not marketing lines. They reflect how the business is evolving.

The listing change adds another layer. It positions Walmart for inclusion in the Nasdaq 100. That means greater visibility and additional passive fund flow. It also reflects how much of Walmart’s future is tied to automation and artificial intelligence.

This is the largest exchange switch by market value in history. And yet the meaning is simple.

Exchanges compete on structure, technology, and alignment.

Companies choose the platform that matches where they are going, not where they have been.

Markets shift. Strategies evolve. Companies reposition.

What stays constant is the need for clarity, discipline, and the right environment to grow.

This is another reminder that listing decisions are strategic choices.

Entrepreneur & Capital Markets Leader | IPO Advisory | Founder, Exchange Listing | CEO, Emmis Acquisition Corp. | Author, The Integrated CEO

Growth Ghost

Growth Ghost: the leading coaching program for aspiring freelancer writers, 9-to-5ers, and digital writers. Teaching writers how to land high paying clients, scale their online ghostwriting business, and build a life they no longer feel the need to escape from.

50+ students served. Multi 7 figures in revenue generated for students. 

https://www.growthghost.com/optin1736208224612

Partner

Ghostlii Inc

The leading ghostwriting agency for founders, coaches, and personal brands.
50+ clients served. 200,000,000+ total impressions. 7 figures of revenue generated through social media content.
https://ghostlii.com/

Co-Founder

Centre for Arts and Technology

College Instructor

College teacher turned ghostwriter | Scaling founders, coaches, and consultants to $100K+ /mo | Writing to build wealth and better self | 98,000 on Twitter (X)

Taylin John Simmonds

I didn’t start believing in myself because I had results. I started believing in myself because I ran out of reasons not to try.

Back in 2022, all I wanted was to make a living as a creative writer.

Not a novelist or a journalist.

Just someone who could write online and get paid for it (if it was even possible).

But everyone around me was saying the same thing:

"Writers don’t make real money."

Still, I kept seeing people on Twitter doing it, and a small part of me hoped that if they could pull it off, maybe I could too.

So I gave myself permission to write for one year straight.

After work.
On weekends.
After eight-hour days teaching college classes.

And I did all of that without earning a single dollar for 6 months.

No clients.
No validation.
Not even much traction on my posts.

Just a lot of self-doubt, 5-9 exhaustion, and the constant fear that I was wasting my time.

Then another ghostwriter referred me a client (thank god).

On the call, the client agreed to pay me fifty cents per follower.

When the Stripe invoice came through for $3,000, it pretty much broke my mind.
It was more than I made in a month as a teacher.

And that moment was all it took...

I finally had proof this path could work (for me).

Within 30 days, I landed two more clients and hit around $10K per month.

Looking back, the biggest shift wasn’t the money.

It was realizing that when you don’t have evidence something will work for you, you have to borrow evidence from people it already worked for.

That borrowed belief keeps you going long enough to get your own proof.

And once you get your first yes, it gets a lot harder to quit.

—Taylin

♻️ Repost. Follow Taylin John Simmonds for more on how to earn as an AI assisted ghostwriter without sacrificing income or your love of hard shell tacos.

College teacher turned AI assisted ghostwriter | Helping writers, creatives, and storytellers earn on the internet | 2 billion impressions | $4,000,000+ revenue generated | All in on Substack

In the last 60 days, I've gained 943 newsletter subs from organic content on Substack. No lead magnets. No trendjacking. Here's how I did it:

Most people on LinkedIn have no idea how f*cking incredible Substack is right now.

It's like LinkedIn 2023, only better because you attract subscribers instead of followers.

Imagine this:

You write a short social post—just like you would on LinkedIn—and it gets you 500 newsletter subscribers.

No lead magnet.
No DMs.
No funnels.

You write a newsletter that goes semi-viral, and it brings you new 80 subscribers, $1,000 in customer sales, and 2 podcast invites.

All from a newsletter that went viral on a social media timeline.

Then you launch a paid newsletter, where people happily pay you for your deepest work, and suddenly you’re earning $100 per day from content you’re already writing.

This isn’t theoretical.

Those are all real wins from my Substack.

I’m growing faster on Substack than I ever did on LinkedIn—just by repurposing my old content and adapting it to Substack’s culture.

My newsletters are going viral.

They’re attracting new clients, podcast invites, and collaborations every week.

My paid newsletter alone is on track to gross $4,000 this month.

This is insane.

If you’re a business owner, get on Substack.
If you’re a creator, get on Substack.
If you’re selling courses or digital products, get on Substack.

This platform is insane and it’s still early.

If you’re thinking about migrating, but aren't sure how Substack works, just comment "Substack" below.

I'll shoot over my free growth guide so you can make the most of Substack while it's easy.

Because once everyone figures it out, the easy growth window closes.

—Taylin

How to grow fast on LinkedIn. Don't. Just write on Substack instead. In 30 days, I gained 729 newsletter subs + $3,000 with a paid newsletter.

It got harder to grow fast on LinkedIn over the past year.

So I ran a five-month experiment to see what would happen if I went all-in on Substack, tried to grow, and launched a paid newsletter.

What happened surprised me.

Once I figured out how the platform worked, I started gaining 500–700 newsletter subscribers per month organically.

Think about that.

When was the last time you pulled 500+ newsletter subscribers on LinkedIn without a viral lead magnet or trendjacking?

This was all organic.
No lead magnets.

Just repurposed content from LinkedIn & X.

My most viral Substack post was literally a LinkedIn post I copied over. 
It brought in around 100 subscribers by itself.

If you’re already writing LinkedIn posts, there’s zero reason not to post them there and let the platform hand you free subscribers.

Then I launched a paid newsletter.

In 30 days, 48 people subscribed.

The dashboard says $6,260 annualized, and the actual cash received was around $2,000 USD.

But here’s the wild part:

People started DMing me asking for other things they could buy.

Now they want me to start a writing community.
I sold $1,000 worth of ghostwriting courses I don’t even have publicly available.
I booked 2 consulting calls worth $3,000–$5,000 each.

So in one month of a paid newsletter, I’ll probably end up with $3,000–$7,000 of additional revenue—completely outside of LinkedIn.

This is why I’m posting about Substack so aggressively.

It’s one of the best attention arbitrage opportunities on the internet right now.

It feels like early Twitter.
It feels like early LinkedIn.
And people on LinkedIn are completely sleeping on it.

They’re not growing on Substack.
They’re not using a paid newsletter as an intro product to sell courses, coaching, or services.

It’s insane.

And the excuse is always:

“I don’t have time. I’m focused on LinkedIn.”

That’s exactly what I used to say—right before LinkedIn got hard.

I’m not making that mistake again.

If you try Substack for 30 days, you’ll be shocked at how much faster you grow your audience and your business.

I put together a free Substack growth guide—you shouldn’t have to pay for the basics. 
I’ll link it at the bottom of this post.

I’m going to keep FOMO’ing you into existence until you finally get on this platform and take advantage of it.

You probably have 6–12 months.

Stop grinding on LinkedIn for 100 followers a month.
At least give Substack a shot.

Free Substack growth guide: https://lnkd.in/gffnDFcD

—Taylin

I have 37,892 LinkedIn followers. I earn more per month from my 5,724 subs on Substack.

What? How?!

Too many people still believe the “big audience = big income” myth.

I did too.

I optimized for LinkedIn virality earlier this year.
I wrote posts I didn’t like.
I told myself the money would show up once the numbers got big enough.

Spoiler:
It never did.

I didn't realize what actually happens when you chase audience size:

You create content for dopamine, not depth.
You grow followers, not trust.

You’re “known,” but not believed.

And without belief, nobody buys.
Nobody invests.

Nobody respects you as an authority.

So I decided to try a different strategy on Substack and this is what I learned:

You don’t need a big audience.
You need high trust per follower.

Because one person who trusts you is worth more than a hundred who barely register your existence.

I have 100,000 followers on X. 
37,892 on LinkedIn.

I have 5,724 subscribers on Substack.

Guess where most of my money comes from?

Substack.

Because that’s where I write what I actually care about:
Creating your life's work.

That’s where I build trust instead of reach:
Publishing hour long podcasts (you might like them).

And trust converts at a level many “big audience” people never experience.

When someone trusts you, they buy the expensive thing.

They tell their friends.
They get excited to work with you.

You don’t need thousands of customers.
You need a few hundred believers.

Stop trying to get famous.
Start trying to get trusted.

That's the real game where you can actually win.

PS. In the past 30 days, I got 700 new newsletter subscribers from organic content on Substack.

If you don't want to miss out, here's a free guide on how to do the same:
https://lnkd.in/gffnDFcD

—Taylin

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