SEC Company Response from Ameritek Ventures, Inc. (ATVK) (CIK 0001530185) (ATVK) — Dec 5, 2011
Ameritek Ventures, Inc. (ATVK) (CIK 0001530185)
Date: Dec. 5, 2011 · CIK: 0001530185 · Accession: 0001530185-11-000005
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File numbers found in text: 333-176909
Referenced dates: November 22, 2011
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CORRESP 1 filename1.htm ATVROCKN A Nevada Corporation _________________________________________________________________________________ 1813 Winners Cup Dr., Las Vegas, NV 89117 Telephone: (702) 334-4008 December 5, 2011 VIA EDGAR TRANSMISSION AND EMAIL U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporate Finance 100 F Street, N.E., Mail Stop 3030 Washington, D.C. 20549 Attn: Mr. Donald E. Field Facsimile: 703-813-6967 Re: ATVROCKN Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed November 8, 2011 File No. 333-176909 Dear Mr. Field: On behalf of ATVROCKN (the “Company”), the undersigned hereby submits a response to certain questions raised by the staff of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Staff”) in its letter of comments dated November 22, 2011 (the “Comment Letter”) relating to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 originally filed on November 8, 2011. Set forth below is the Company’s responses to the Staff’s comments. The Company’s responses are numbered to correspond to the Staff’s comments. For your convenience, each of the Staff’s comments contained in the Comment Letter has been restated below in its entirety, with the Company’s response set forth immediately under such comment. General 1. We note your response to our prior comment one and reissue in part. We also note your legal analysis but were not persuaded that the offering is appropriately characterized as an offering that is eligible to be made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i) of the Securities Act of 1933. Please revise to identify Legal Beagle Services as an underwriter on the cover page and throughout and include a fixed sales price to the public for each registered security for the duration of the offering. In this regard, we note that Legal Beagle Services is not consistently identified as an underwriter throughout the prospectus and the prospectus continues to contain language throughout which indicates that the selling securityholder is permitted to sell shares at-the-market. Please revise the prospectus throughout (e.g. Calculation of Registration Fee table, The Offering, Plan of Distribution, etc.) accordingly. Response: We have revised the document to consistently state that our selling shareholder is an underwriter. And we removed any language that states the selling securityholder is permitted to sell shares at-the-market. 2. We note your response to our prior comment two and reissue. We note throughout the prospectus that you refer to the registered preferred stock as "convertible preferred," "preferred shares," "Series A Convertible Preferred stock," "Series A Convertible Preferred shares" and "Series A Preferred." Please revise to define the registered preferred stock after the term's initial use and then to consistently refer to such defined term throughout the prospectus. Response: We have revised the prospectus to define the registered preferred stock after the term's initial use on the prospectus cover page. 3. Please revise the prospectus throughout to remove any text which has been annotated with a strike-through and to remove any superfluous underlining. For example, refer to the last sentence of the fifth paragraph on the Prospectus Cover Page. Please also revise the prospectus throughout to remove any text which copies verbatim the text of our prior comments without modification. For example, refer to the last paragraph of the Research and Development section on page 31. Response: We have revised the prospectus to remove the strike-outs and to remove any superfluous underlining. We have also deleted the verbatim the text of your prior comments. Registration Statement Cover Page 4. We note your disclosure in footnote 2 to the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table that "[t]here is no current market for the securities and the price at which the shares held by the selling security holders will be sold is unknown. "Please delete this reference and revise the "Proposed Offering Price Per Share" column to indicate that the offering of each class of registered securities will instead be conducted at fixed prices for the duration of the offerings. Please also revise to recalculate the registration fees in accordance with the appropriate provisions of Rule 457 of the Securities Act of 1933 and to specify the provisions relied upon. Please also revise the last sentence of footnote 2 and the prospectus throughout accordingly. Please refer to comment one above. Response: We have revised the cover page, whereby we deleted the noted reference revised the “Proposed Offering Price Per Share” column and revised footnote 2 accordingly. 5. We note your disclosure in footnote 4 to the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table that "[t]he aggregate offering price includes offering expenses of $500, which will result in net proceeds to the Company of $4,500." As it appears that your offering expenses are greater than your offering proceeds, please reconcile this disclosure with the Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution section on page II-1 which details anticipated offering expenses of $10,647. Please also revise the prospectus throughout to remove any implication that you will receive net proceeds from the company's offering. Response: Footnote 4 now states, “the aggregate offering price includes offering expenses of proceeds from the offering will be used to replenish previous cash balances which were used to prepay offering expenses.” We have updated the document accordingly. Prospectus Cover Page 6. We note your response to our prior comment six and reissue. Please revise the prospectus cover page to more clearly distinguish between the offerings being conducted by the company and the selling securityholder. In this regard, we note that you are offering 500,000 shares of common stock and the selling shareholder is offering a) 1,250,000 shares of convertible preferred stock and b) 125,000,000 shares of common stock. The terms and conditions of each offering should be clarified. Refer to Item 501(b) of Regulation S-K. Please also revise the Offering section on page 4 and the prospectus throughout accordingly. Response: We revise the prospectus cover and the Offering section on page 4 to more clearly distinguish between the offerings being conducted by the company and the selling securityholder. 7. Revise to define the capitalized term, "Offering," the first instance it is used in the third paragraph. Response: We have revised the document to define the capitalize term “Offering.” 8. We note your response to our prior comment eight and reissue. We note your disclosure in the second sentence of the fourth paragraph that "[you] will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of shares of Series A Convertible Preferred or the subsequent conversion of its common stock by the selling securityholder." Please revise the fourth paragraph to clarify that you will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of preferred or common stock by the selling securityholder. Please also revise the prospectus throughout accordingly. Response: We have revised the document to state that we will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of preferred or common stock by the selling securityholder. 9. Please revise the fourth paragraph to disclose the fixed price to the public of the preferred stock being offered by the selling securityholder. Refer to Item 501 (b)(3) of Regulation S-K. Please also revise the prospectus throughout accordingly. Response: We have revised the fourth paragraph to disclose the fixed price to the public of the preferred stock being offered by the selling securityholder. 10. Please revise the fourth paragraph to clarify the duration of the offering being conducted by the selling securityholder. For guidance, refer to Rule 415(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933. Please also revise the first risk factor on page 12 and the prospectus throughout accordingly. Response: We have revised the fourth paragraph to clarify the duration of the offering being conducted by the selling securityholder. 11. We note your response to our prior comment ten and reissue in part. Please revise the fifth sentence of the sixth paragraph to clarify that there is no trading market for your preferred stock or common stock. Response: We have revised the fifth sentence of the sixth paragraph to clarify that there is no trading market for your preferred stock or common stock. 12. Please delete the phrase "[n]o underwriter will be used" from the last paragraph. Response: We have deleted the phrase "[n]o underwriter will be used" from the last paragraph. Prospectus Summary, page 3 Our Company, page 3 13. We note your response to our prior comment 12 and reissue in part. Please revise to briefly provide a more detailed summary of your business and current operations to include the steps you have taken to date to become an operating company. Briefly describe the products you currently sell and your existing arrangement with your contract manufacturer in greater detail. Describe your marketing initiatives and relationships with third-parties such as distributors. To the extent that you discuss future business plans here, the discussion should be balanced with a brief discussion of the time frame for implementing future plans, the steps involved, any obstacles involved before you can commence the planned operations and the need for any additional financing. If additional financing may not be available, please clarify that. Response: We revised the prospectus to provide a more detailed summary of our business and current operations to include the steps we have taken to date to become an operating company. We have also discussed our need for additional financing and that additional financing may not be available. 14. In the second paragraph under this heading and several other places in the filing you disclose revenue of $5,465 for the 25 units sold in October 2011. Please balance your disclosure by including the cost of these units and other associated costs (e.g., shipping, packaging and warehousing) wherever this revenue amount is disclosed. Response: We revised the document to balance our disclosure by including the cost associated with our first sale. 15. Please refer to the fourth paragraph. We note that you anticipate $12,000 of public company reporting expenses per year, you have a $5,000 interest expense per year related to the promissory note issued to Dan Berger, and other expenses as detailed in your financial statements (e.g. payroll taxes, general and administrative and salaries, etc.). Please reconcile the above expenses with your anticipated monthly "burn rate" post-offering. We also note your disclosure that based on your current cash reserves, if you are unable to generate sufficient revenues to off-set your cash requirements, you will run out of cash in the second quarter of your 2012 fiscal year. Please revise to disclose the month you will run out of funds without additional capital based upon your anticipated monthly "burn rate" post-offering and on your current cash reserves. Response: We stated in our response to your comment, “The Company has prepaid its legal and audit expenses through the end of its fiscal year ending May 31, 2012. Therefore, based on current cash reserves, the Company will run out of cash reserves in June, 2012.” 16. Please revise the first sentence of the fourth paragraph to update the reference of "offering circular" to "prospectus." Response: We revised the first sentence of the fourth paragraph to update the reference of "offering circular" to "prospectus." 17. Please revise the fourth paragraph to quantify the net losses that you have incurred since your inception on December 27, 2010 to your interim period of August 31, 2011. Response: We have revised the fourth paragraph to quantify the net losses that we have incurred since our inception on December 27, 2010 to our interim period of August 31, 2011. 18. Refer to the last sentence of the fourth paragraph. We note that your auditor has issued a going concern opinion, your limited cash position, and your current liabilities as of August 31, 2011. We also note your disclosure in the Liquidity and Capital Resources section on page 35 that you "expect to incur losses over the next two years." Provide us substantiation for your claim that "future revenues will off-set [your] expenses." Alternatively, revise to state, if true, that you must raise additional capital in order to continue operations and to implement your plan of operations and disclose the amount of funds and uses for those funds that you will need for the next 12 months. In this regard, please factor in your anticipated monthly "burn rate" post-offering and any amounts necessary to implement your plan of operations (e.g. the amounts necessary to execute your marketing strategy and to expand your existing product line). Response: We respectfully note the Staff’s comment. As we cannot predict the future revenues and the claim that "future revenues will off-set [our] expenses." Therefore, we have deleted this wording. We have added disclosure concerning our funding requirements for the next 12 months. The Offering, page 4 19. We note your response to our prior comment 16 and reissue. Please revise to more clearly distinguish between the offerings being conducted by the company and the selling securityholder. We note that you are offering shares of common stock and the selling shareholder is offering shares of convertible preferred stock and common stock. The summary of each offering should he clarified to include, without limitation, any necessary revisions based upon our previous comments on the terms and conditions of each offering. Response: We respectfully note the Staff’s comment. We did our best to revise the document to more clearly distinguish between the offerings being conducted by the company and the selling securityholder in the Offering Section on page 4. 20. Please refer to the "Offering Price" paragraph. Please delete the second through fourth sentences in their entirety. Response: We have deleted the second through fourth sentences in their entirety in the “Offering Price” paragraph. Selected Financial Data, page 6 21. We note your response to our prior comment 17 and reissue in part. Please refer to the Income Statement Data. We note that the information under the column "From -inception (December 27, 2010) to May 31, 2011 (audited)" does not correspond to your financial statements for the referenced periods. In this regard, we note that the information appears to correspond to the period from inception to August 31, 2011 which was unaudited. Please revise as applicable. Response: We respectfully note the Staff’s comment. We have updated the numbers under the Income Statement Data, and we now believe they correspond to our financial statements for the referenced periods. Risk Factors, page 6 22. We note your response to our prior comment 18 and reissue in part. We note that you are registering common and preferred stock. Please revise the introductory paragraphs to consistently reference your common and preferred stock as applicable. Please also revise the risk factors in this section to reference your common and preferred stock in the appropriate circumstances. In this regard, we note that your preferred stock is not addressed in certain applicable risk factors and is referenced in other risk factors which are inapplicable. For example and without limitation, refer to the second risk factors on pages 11, 13 and 15. Response: We revised the introductory paragraphs to consistently reference our common and preferred stock as applicable. Risk Factors Relating to Our Financial Condition, page 6 We may not be able to attain profitability without additional funding, page 7 23. We note your response to our prior comment 22 and reissue. Please revise to quantify the