As Filed With the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 13, 2003
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM SB-2
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
FOLIX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(Name of Small Business Issuer in its Charter)
Nevada | 7373 | 88-0507007 |
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) | (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number) | (IRS Employer Identification Number) |
205-1072 Davie Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
CANADA, V6E 1M3
(604) 669-9029
(Address and telephone number of principal executive offices and principal place of business)
Agent for Service:
Gregory Corcoran, President Folix Technologies, Inc. 205-1072 Davie Street Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA, V6E 1M3 Telephone: (604) 669-9029 Fax: (309) 406-0305 | With a Copy To:
Christopher J. Moran Jr. 4625 Clary Lakes Drive Roswell, Georgia 30075
Telephone: (770) 518-9542 Fax: (770) 518-9640
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Approximate Date of Proposed Sale to the Public:
As soon as practicable and from time to time after the effective date of this Registration Statement.
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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title of Each Class of Securities To Be Registered | Dollar Amount To Be Registered
| Proposed Maximum Offering Price per Unit
| Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price | Amount of Registration Fee [1] |
Common Stock: Shares $0.001 par value | $200,000 | $0.20 | $200,000 | $16.20 |
[1] Calculated by Modern EDGAR Link v8.4 software program with fee rate as of February 25, 2003 pursuant to Rule 457.The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to section 8(a), may determine.
Information contained herein is subject to completion or amendment. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This registration statement shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.
Subject to Completion
Dated August 13, 2003
PROSPECTUS
FOLIX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
1,000,000 Shares of Common Stock
To be sold by the registrant as issuer.
This is the initial public offering of common stock of Folix Technologies, Inc. and no public market currently exists for these shares. There is no minimum number of shares that are required to be sold or escrow arrangements, no commissions will be paid and the price of the common shares of this offering was arbitrarily set. We are offering for sale up to one million shares of our common stock on a "self-underwritten" best efforts basis at a price of $0.20 per share for a period of one hundred and eighty days following the effective date of this prospectus.
THIS INVESTMENT INVOLVES A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK
SEE "RISK FACTORS" ON PAGE 7
Price to Public | Underwriting | Commissions | Proceeds to Folix |
Per Share: | $0.20 per share | $0 | $0.20 per share |
Total Offering: | $0.20 per share | $0 | $200,000 |
Neither the SEC nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. The SEC has not made any recommendations that you buy or not buy the shares. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
Table of Contents
Folix Technologies, Inc. is a corporation formed under the laws of the State of Nevada on December 13, 2000 whose principal executive offices are located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
We are a high technology development stage company engaged in the development of an initial product. We build our products using a new method of software development called Open Source Software. Open Source Software requires that one understand the concept of source code and software licenses. Source code is the set of commands or "blueprints" required to build a software program. A software license is the agreement one must abide to in order to be able to use the software. Open Source Software is generally accepted to be software that has the properties listed below.
- Freely redistributable in that the software license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
- All software programs come with source code to build the software.
- Derived works are allowed but any derived works must have the same terms of the license of the original software.
- The software license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code.
- The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
- The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor.
- The rights attached to a software program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.
- The rights attached to a software program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution.
- The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with licensed software.
- No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface.
Open Source Software has been a very successful phenomenon since it allows a community of users with a common need to share the cost of developing software and not to be held hostage by a single vendor of computer programs. In short, the use of Open Source Software in our products allows us to dramatically reduce our research and development expenditures.
Our products will contain commodity computer hardware components that run Open Source Software. This will allow us to offer reliable systems to future customers at reasonable prices.
Name, Address, and Telephone Number of Registrant
Folix Technologies, Inc.
205-1072 Davie St.
Vancouver, BC, CANADA
V6E 1M3
(604) 669-9029
The Offering
Price per share offered | $0.20 |
Common stock offered by the Company | 1,000,000 shares |
Common stock to be outstanding after the offering assuming all shares are sold | 7,636,000 shares |
Common stock to be outstanding after the offering assuming 50% of shares are sold | 7,136,000 shares |
Use of proceeds | To fund the development stage |
Balance Sheet Date (Audited) | Mar 31, 2003 | Mar 31, 2002 |
Cash | $87 | $68 |
Total Assets | $183 | $100 |
Total Liabilities | $3,736 | $2,409 |
Total Liabilities and Stockholder's Deficit | $183 | $100 |
Statement of Operations | Year End March 31, 2003 | Year End March 31, 2002 | Inception to March 31, 2003 |
Revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Net Loss | $1,244 | $5,508 | $10,189 |
Please consider the following risk factors together with the other information presented in this prospectus including the financial statements and the notes thereto before investing in our common stock. The trading price of our common stock could decline due to any of the following risks, and you might lose all or part of your investment.
We are a new business with a limited operating history and no revenues to date and are not likely to succeed unless we can overcome the many obstacles we face.
We are a development-stage company with limited prior business operations and no revenues. We are presently engaged in the early stage development of certain computer products and services. Unless we are able to secure adequate funding, we may not be able to successfully develop and market our products and our business will most likely fail. Because of our limited operating history, you may not have adequate information on which you can base an evaluation of our business and prospects. To date, our efforts have been allocated primarily to the following:
- Organizational activities;
- Developing a business plan;
- Obtaining interim funding; and
- Conducting research and working toward the ultimate successful development of our products.
In order to establish ourselves in the computer products and services market, we are dependent upon continued funding and the successful development and marketing of our products. You should be aware of the increased risks, uncertainties, difficulties and expenses we face as a research and development company and that an investment in our common stock may be worthless if our business fails.
We have generated no revenues and if we are unable to generate sufficient revenues in the future, we may not be able to continue our business.
We are still in our formative and development stage. As an investor, you should be aware of the difficulties, delays and expenses normally encountered by an enterprise in its development stage, many of which are beyond our control, including unanticipated research and developmental expenses, consulting costs, and administrative expenses. We cannot assure our investors that our proposed business plans as described in this prospectus will materialize or prove successful, or that we will ever be able to finalize development of our products or operate profitably. If we cannot operate profitably, you could lose your entire investment. As a result of the start-up nature of our business, initially we expect to sustain substantial operating expenses without generating significant revenues.
We have a history of losses and an accumulated deficit and we expect future losses that may cause our stock price to decline.
For the fiscal years ended March 31, 2003 and 2002, we incurred net losses of $1,244 and $5,508 respectively and $10,189 since inception. We expect to lose more money as we spend additional capital to develop and market our technologies and establish our infrastructure and organization to support anticipated operations. We cannot be certain whether we will ever earn a significant amount of revenues or profit, or, if we do, that we will be able to continue earning such revenues or profit. Also, the current economic weakness may limit our ability to develop and ultimately market our technologies. Any of these factors could cause our stock price to decline and result in you losing a portion or all of your investment.
Our inability to retain and attract key personnel could adversely affect our business.
We have no formal employment agreements with our sole president and director and his departure would result in us being non-operational. We believe that our future success will depend on the abilities and continued service of our sole president and consultants involved in the research and development of our products. If we are unable to retain the services of these persons, or if we are unable to attract additional qualified employees, researchers and consultants, we may be unable to successfully finalize and eventually market our computer products being developed, which will have a material adverse effect on our business. Any of these factors could cause our stock price to decline and result in you losing a portion or all of your investment.
Our research and development efforts may not result in commercially viable products.
Our technologies are in the development stage. Further research and development efforts will be required to develop these technologies to the point where they can be incorporated into commercially viable or salable products. We have set forth in this prospectus our proposed research and development program as it is currently conceived. We cannot assure you, however, that this program will be accomplished in the order or in the time frame set forth. We reserve the right to modify the research and development program. We may not succeed in developing commercially viable products from our technologies. If not, our ability to generate revenues from our technologies will be severely limited. This would result in the loss of all or part of your investment.
We may not be able to develop a market for our technology.
The demand and price for our technology and related products will be based upon the existence of markets for the technology and products and the markets for products of others, which may utilize our technology. The extent to which we may gain a share of our intended markets will depend, in part, upon the cost effectiveness and performance of our technology and products when compared to alternative technologies, which may be conventional or heretofore unknown. If the technology or products of other companies provide more cost-effective alternatives or otherwise outperform our technology or products, the demand for our technology or products maybe adversely affected. Our success will be dependent upon market acceptance of our technology and related products. Failure of our technology to achieve and maintain meaningful levels of market acceptance would materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and market penetration. This would likely cause our stock price to decline.
We may not be able to compete effectively in the competitive computer products industry.
Our future success depends on our ability to compete effectively with other manufacturers of computer products, including major manufacturers of computer hardware and Linux distributions that may have internal development programs. We are an early-stage research and development company engaged exclusively in developing our initial products. We have not yet completed our first product and have no revenue from operations. As a result, we may have difficulty competing with larger, established computer companies. Most of our potential competitors will be established, well-known companies that have:
- Substantially greater financial, technical and marketing resources;
- Larger customer bases;
- Better name recognition;
- Related product offerings; and
- Larger marketing areas.
Companies such as Sun Microsystems, VA Software and Red Hat are major, international providers of active computer products in the Linux product arena. Because these companies may possibly develop recentralized computing solutions for their own product lines, they may ultimately be in competition with us. These companies represent a wide array of computer products, technologies and approaches. Most of these companies have more resources than we do and, therefore, a greater opportunity to develop comparable products and bring those products to market more efficiently than us. If we do not compete effectively with current and future competitors, our future growth and operating results will be adversely affected.
We may infringe the proprietary rights of others.
As described in or prospectus summary, our business plans call for the use of Open Source Software technology. This technology is generally accepted to be "freely" available in terms of access to the technology and in price. However, it is possible that in the future others may claim ownership rights to portions of this technology. This means that we may infringe on proprietary rights of others. If an entity is deemed to own these rights we may have to pay a royalty or stop shipment of our products all together. If this occurs our future growth and operating results will be adversely affected.
If we fail to adequately finance ourselves we will lose exclusivity to develop our business plan with our sole president and director.
We have an agreement with our sole director Mr. Greg Corcoran to finance the business presented within this registration statement. This agreement provides us with the exclusive right to develop the Linux business plan created by Mr. Corcoran. The agreement requires that we finance the business plan presented within this registration statement. If the Company is unable to sell at least 50% of the offering of 1,000,000 shares within 180 days from the date that the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved this prospectus for resale to the public or by December 31, 2004 (which ever occurs earliest) Mr. Corcoran has reserved the right to pursue the business plan with another Company besides us. This means that if we do not meet our financing responsibility we will lose the exclusive right to develop the business plan with Mr. Corcoran. If we do not meet our financing responsibilities and Mr. Corcoran exercises his right we may have additional competitors and loose the focus of Mr. Corcoran. This would likely cause our stock price to decline.
Our sole president and director owns the majority of our company's stock.
Our president owns 60.28% of our outstanding common stock and serves as our sole director. Investors may find that corporate decisions influenced by Mr. Corcoran are inconsistent with the interests of other stockholders.
There is presently no demand or public market for our common stock.
There is presently no demand or public market for our common stock. Though we intend to apply for a quotation on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board, we cannot guarantee that our application will be approved and our stock listed and quoted for sale. Our common stock has no prior market and resale of your shares may be difficult without considerable delay, if at all.
The so called "penny stock rule" could make it cumbersome for brokers and dealers to trade in our common stock, making the market for our common stock less liquid.
Trading of our common stock on the OTC Bulletin Board may be subject to certain provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, commonly referred to as the "penny stock" rule. A penny stock is generally defined to be any equity security that has a market price less than $5.00 per share, subject to certain exceptions. If our stock is deemed to be a penny stock, trading in our stock will be subject to additional sales practice requirements on broker-dealers. These may require a broker dealer to:
- Make a special suitability determination for purchasers of our shares;
- Receive the purchaser's written consent to the transaction prior to the purchase; and
- Deliver to a prospective purchaser of our stock, prior to the first transaction, a risk disclosure document relating to the penny stock market.
Consequently, penny stock rules may restrict the ability of broker-dealers to trade and/or maintain a market in our common stock. Also, prospective investors may not want to get involved with the additional administrative requirements, which may have a material adverse effect on the trading of our shares.
Forward-Looking Statements
This prospectus contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. We use words such as anticipate, believe, plan, expect, future, intend and similar expressions to identify such forward-looking statements. You should not place too much reliance on these forward-looking statements. Our actual results are most likely to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements for many reasons, including the risks faced by us described in this Risk Factors section and elsewhere in this prospectus.
The following table indicates the use of proceeds based on the percentage of the financing that is successfully sold.
| Sale of 100% | Sale of 50% | Sale of 25% | Sale of 10% |
Gross Proceeds | $200,000 | $100,000 | $50,000 | $20,000 |
Less expenses of offering | | | | |
Legal Fees | $5,000 | $5,000 | $5,000 | $5,000 |
Accounting | $5,000 | $5,000 | $5,000 | $5,000 |
Electronic Filing and Printing | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 | $2,000 |
Net Proceeds | $188,000 | $88,000 | $38,000 | $8,000 |
Use of net proceeds | | | | |
Start Up Costs (computers and networking equipment) | $20,000 | $20,000 | $0 | $0 |
Salaries/Consultants | $100,000 | $68,000 | $0 | $0 |
Working Capital | $68,000 | $0 | $38,000 | $8,000 |
Analysis of Financing Scenarios
As indicated in the table above we will not have sufficient funds to commence operations unless 50% of the 1,000,000 common shares being offered by us are purchased. This has been designed to align with our Business Plan Purchase Agreement (Exhibit 10.1 in this prospectus) with Mr. Corcoran where we are obligated to raise $100,000 to pursue the business plan. If we only sell 500,000 common shares, our funds available for salaries and consultants will be reduced from $100,000 to $68,000 and the pace of development will proceed more slowly. In addition, if we sell only 500,000 of our common shares we would have no working capital with which to deal with unanticipated expenses and contingencies.
In the event that we only sell 250,000 common shares, we will not have fulfilled our obligations of our Business Plan Purchase Agreement with Mr. Corcoran and will not have the ability to buy computers and networking equipment or pay salaries and we would only pay our attorneys, accountants, electronic filing and printing expenses and have $38,000 in working capital and may need to ask Mr. Corcoran for a loan and he may ask us the renegotiate the terms of the Business Plan Purchase Agreement in order to pursue the business. There is no guarantee that Mr. Corcoran would accept a renegotiation or that he will lend us the money to proceed with the business plan in such a case.
In the event that we only sell 100,000 common shares we will not have fulfilled our obligations of our Business Plan Purchase Agreement with Mr. Corcoran and will not have the ability to buy computers and networking equipment or pay salaries and we would only pay our attorneys, accountants, electronic filing and printing expenses and have $8,000 in working capital and may need to ask Mr. Corcoran for a loan and he may ask us the renegotiate the terms of the Business Plan Purchase Agreement in order to pursue the business. There is no guarantee that Mr. Corcoran would accept a renegotiation or that he will lend us the money to proceed with the business plan in such a case.
We have estimated that we will have approximately $68,000 in working capital if all of the 1,000,000 common shares being offered are sold. These funds will be used for contingency and/or unanticipated expenses during the development phase. Theses funds may or may not be enough to operate until we become cash flow positive. If we cannot become cash flow positive before the working capital is consumed we will have to seek additional financing. No arrangements have been made for additional financing.
The offering price of this issue was arbitrarily determined. We determined the amount of money needed to start the business; added a contingency amount; allowed for printing, legal and accounting costs, computer and consulting costs. The final consideration was the perceived market capitalization, the theoretical total worth of the shares of Folix Technologies, Inc. if they were all sold at a specific price at the same time.
Prior to this offering Folix had 6,636,000 shares of stock issued and outstanding. The following table illustrates the difference between prices paid by present shareholders and subscribers to this offering.
The following table illustrates the difference between the price paid by present shareholders and the price to be paid by subscribers to this offering.
Shareholder Type | Price Paid | Percentage of Consideration (50% Subscription) | Percentage of Consideration (100% Subscription) | Percentage of Shares Held (50% Subscription) | Percentage of Shares Held (100% Subscription) |
Present Shareholders | $0.001 | 2.5% | 1.3% | 93.0% | 86.9% |
Investors in this Offering | $0.20 | 97.5% | 98.8% | 7.0% | 13.1% |
"Dilution" means the difference between our public offering price ($0.20 per share) and our proforma net tangible book value per share after giving effect to this offering. Net tangible book value per share is determined by dividing our tangible net worth, consisting of tangible assets less total liabilities, by the number of shares outstanding. The following table will show the net tangible book value of our shares both before and after the completion of this offering.
Public offering price per share | $0.2000 |
Net tangible book value per share before offering | $0.0000 |
Increase per share attributable to public investors | $0.0262 |
Proforma net tangible book value per share after offering | $0.0262 |
Dilution per share to public investors | $0.1738 |
This is a self-underwritten offering. This prospectus is part of a registration statement that permits our officers and directors, pursuant Rule 3a4-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, to sell directly to the public with no commission or other remuneration payable. The sole officer and director will mail this prospectus directly to former investors, family, friends and business associates. The prospectus will also be shown to other persons that the officers and directors think may have an interest in investing in us. In addition, we plan on asking for further references from each new subscriber.
General
We will attempt to sell a maximum of 1,000,000 shares of our common stock to the public on a "self underwritten" basis. There can be no assurance that any of these shares will be sold. Our gross proceeds will be $200,000 if all the shares offered are sold. Neither we nor our sole officer and director, nor any other person, will pay commissions or other fees, directly or indirectly, to any person or firm in connection with solicitation of the sales of the shares.
The following discussion addresses the material terms of the plan of distribution.
We are offering up to 1,000,000 shares of our common stock at a price of $0.20 per share to be sold by our sole executive officer, Mr. Greg Corcoran. Since this offering is conducted as a self-underwritten offering, there can be no assurance that any of the shares will be sold. If we fail to sell all the shares we are trying to sell, our ability to implement our business plan will be materially affected, and you may lose all or substantially all of your investment.
There is currently no market for any of our shares and little likelihood that a public market for such securities will develop after the closing of this offering or be sustained if developed. As such, investors may not be able to readily dispose of any shares purchased in this offering.
Our sole executive officer shall conduct the offering. Although Mr. Corcoran is an associated person of us as that term is defined in Rule 3a4-1 under the Exchange Act, our counsel has orally advised us that Mr. Corcoran will not be deemed to be a broker or dealer in the sale of our securities.
He will restrict his participation to the following activities:
- Preparing any written communication or delivering any communication through the mails or other means that does not involve oral solicitation by him of a potential purchaser;
- Responding to inquiries of potential purchasers in a communication initiated by the potential purchasers, provided however, that the contents of responses are limited to information contained in a registration statement filed under the Securities Act or other offering document;
- Performing ministerial and clerical work involved in effecting any transaction.
Mr. Corcoran is fully aware of the provisions of Rule 3a4-1 under the Exchange Act and will conduct this offering in accordance with Rule 3a4-1, and will rely upon this rule. Should he conduct this offering in any way that violates Rule 3a4-1, both Mr. Corcoran and we could be subjected to enforcement proceedings, fines and sanctions by the Securities and Exchange Commission and by the regulatory authorities of any state or province in which our securities are offered.
Mr. Corcoran, as well as all current shareholders, may purchase securities in this offering upon the same terms and conditions as public investors.
No broker or dealer is participating in this offering. If, for some reason, our directors and shareholders were to determine that the participation of a broker or dealer is necessary, this offering will be promptly amended by a post effective amendment to disclose the details of this arrangement, including the fact that the broker or dealer is acting as an underwriter of this offering. This amendment would also detail the proposed compensation to be paid to any such broker or dealer. The post effective amendment would also extend an offer of rescission to any investors who subscribed to this offering before the broker or dealer was named. In addition to the foregoing requirements; we would be required to file any such amendment with the Corporate Finance Department of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. and to obtain from them a "no objection" position from that organization on the fairness of the underwriting compensation. We would have to amend our filings at the state and provincial level.
The offering will remain open for a period until December 31, 2004 or 180 days from the date of this prospectus, unless the entire gross proceeds are earlier received or we decide, in our sole discretion, to cease selling efforts.
This prospectus is also part of a registration statement that enables selling shareholders to sell their shares on a continuous or delayed basis in the future.
Rule 144 Shares
A total of 4,000,000 shares of our common stock are available for resale to the public in accordance with the volume and trading limitations of Rule 144 of the Act. In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, a person who has beneficially owned shares of a company's common stock for at least one year is entitled to sell within any three month period a number of shares that does not exceed the greater of:
- 1% of the number of shares of the company's common stock then outstanding which, in our case, will equal approximately 66,360 shares as of the date of this prospectus; or
- The average weekly trading volume of the company's common stock during the four calendar weeks preceding the filing of a notice on form 144 with respect to the sale.
Sales under Rule 144 are also subject to manner of sale provisions and notice requirements and to the availability of current public information about the company.
Under Rule 144(k), a person who is not one of the company's affiliates at any time during the three months preceding a sale, and who has beneficially owned the shares proposed to be sold for at least two years, is entitled to sell shares without complying with the manner of sale, public information, volume limitation or notice provisions of Rule 144.
As of the date of this prospectus, persons who are our affiliates hold 4,000,000 of the common shares that may be eligible for Rule 144 sales. These persons would, however, be subject to the volume limitations discussed above and would not become eligible to use Rule 144(k) until at least three months after resigning as an officer and director, and then only if they retained less than 10% of the aggregate amount of common shares then outstanding.
The selling shareholders may also sell their shares directly to market makers acting as principals or brokers or dealers, who may act as agent or acquire the common stock as a principal. Any broker or dealer participating in such transactions as agent may receive a commission from the selling shareholders, or, if they act as agent for the purchaser of such common stock, from such purchaser. The selling shareholders will likely pay the usual and customary brokerage fees for such services. Brokers or dealers may agree with the selling shareholders to sell a specified number of shares at a stipulated price per share and, to the extent such broker or dealer is unable to do so acting as agent for the selling shareholders, to purchase, as principal, any unsold shares at the price required to fulfill the respective broker's or dealer's commitment to the selling shareholders. Brokers or dealers who acquire shares as principals may thereafter resell such shares from time to time in transactions in a market or on an exchange, in negotiated transactions or otherwise, at market prices prevailing at the time of sale or at negotiated prices, and in connection with such re-sales may pay or receive commissions to or from the purchasers of such shares. These transactions may involve cross and block transactions that may involve sales to and through other brokers or dealers. If applicable, the selling shareholders may distribute shares to one or more of their partners who are unaffiliated with us. Such partners may, in turn, distribute such shares as described above. We can provide no assurance that all or any of the common stock offered will be sold by the selling shareholders.
The selling shareholders must comply with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Act in the offer and sale of the common stock. In particular, during such times as the selling shareholders may be deemed to be engaged in a distribution of the common stock, and therefore be considered to be an underwriter, they must comply with applicable law and may, among other things:
- Not engage in any stabilization activities in connection with our common stock;
- Furnish each broker or dealer through which common stock may be offered, such copies of this prospectus, as amended from time to time, as may be required by such broker or dealer; and
- Not bid for or purchase any of our securities or attempt to induce any person to purchase any of our securities other than as permitted under the Securities Exchange Act.
No public market currently exists for our shares of common stock. We intend to apply to have our shares traded on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board ("OTCBB"). The OTCBB, is a securities market but should not beconfused with the NASDAQ market. OTCBB companies are subject to far less restrictions and regulations than are companies traded on the NASDAQ market However there is no assurance that we can be traded on the OTCBB and the NASD, which regulates the OTCBB, has applied to the SEC to allow additional restrictions and requirements upon the part of OTCBB securities. We currently do not meet either the existing requirements or the proposed additional restrictions and requirements of the OTCBB, and we cannot assure you that we will ever meet these requirements.
We are not aware of any legal proceedings that have been or are currently being undertaken for or against it nor are any contemplated.
The sole director and executive officer currently serving the Company is as follows:
Name | Age | Positions Held and Tenure |
Gregory Corcoran | 39 | Director, President and Secretary since December 18, 2000 |
The sole director named above will serve until the next annual meeting of the stockholders. Thereafter, directors will be elected for one-year terms at the annual stockholders' meeting. Officers will hold their positions at the pleasure of the board of directors, absent any employment agreement, of which none currently exists or is contemplated. There is no arrangement or understanding between the directors and officers and any other person pursuant to which any director or officer was to be selected as a Director or Officer.
Biographical information
Gregory Corcoran received a B.Sc. Degree majoring in Physics from the University of British Columbia in 1986 and a Diploma of Technology in Robotics from the British Columbia Institute of Technology in 1989. From 1989 to 1998 he was employed by the following technology companies in software development capacities: Dorigo Systems Ltd, Andronic Devices Ltd, Q-Media Software Inc, Kalman Technologies Inc., Jenosys Technologies Inc. and Intrinsyc Software, Inc.
In 1996, Mr. Corcoran founded Spidex Technologies, which successfully developed and sold web server technology for the Microsoft Windows CE operating system to Intrinsyc Software. This web server technology allowed Intrinsyc to become a leader within the Windows CE industry and establish Intrinsyc as a leader in the Windows CE market space. The web server product won industry recognition and Mr. Corcoran has been published in trade journals including the CE Tech Journal a Microsoft sponsored trade journal.
During the last five years from 1998 to 2003 Mr. Corcoran has been self-employed as a technology consultant through his firm Spidex Technologies. From December 1999 to September 2001 he served as director and CEO of AudioMonster Online, Inc. a company working in the MP3 music market area. In December 2000, Mr. Corcoran founded Folix Technologies, Inc.
Mr. Corcoran intends to devote 10 hours per week to our business while we are processing this prospectus. After we have fulfilled out obligations to raise a minimum of $100,000 towards our business Mr. Corcoran intends to devote 30 hours per week to our business.
Significant Employees
We have no significant employees other than Greg Corcoran.
The following table sets forth, as of the date of this registration statement, the number of shares of Common Stock owned of record and beneficially by executive officers, directors and persons who hold 5.0% or more of the outstanding Common Stock of Folix Technologies, Inc. Also included are the shares held by all executive officers and directors as a group.
Name and Address | Number of Shares Owned Beneficially | Percent of Class Owned Prior To This Offering |
Gregory Corcoran Director, President and Secretary 205-1072 Davie St. Vancouver, BC V6E 1M3 | 4,000,000 | 60.28% |
All directors and executive officers as a group (1 person) | 4,000,000 | 60.28% |
The percent of class is based on 6,636,000 of common stock issued and outstanding as of March 31, 2003.
The person listed is the sole officer and director of our company and has full voting and investment power with respect to the shares indicated. Under the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a person (or a group of persons) is deemed to be a "beneficial owner" of a security if he or she, directly or indirectly, has or shares power to vote or to direct the voting of such security. Accordingly, more than one person may be deemed to be a beneficial owner of the same security. A person is also deemed to be a beneficial owner of any security, which that person has the right to acquire within 60 days, such as options or warrants to purchase our common stock.
Common Stock
The Articles of Incorporation of Folix Technologies, Inc. authorize the issuance of 50,000,000 shares of common stock. Each holder of record of common stock is entitled to 1 vote for each share held on all matters properly submitted to the stockholders for their vote. The Articles of Incorporation do not permit cumulative voting for the election of directors.
Holders of common stock are entitled to such dividends as may be declared from time to time by the Board of Directors out of legally available funds. In the event of liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our affairs, holders are entitled to receive, ratably, the net assets available to stockholders after distribution is made to the preferred shareholders, if any.
Holders of common stock have no preemptive, conversion or redemptive rights. All of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock are, and all unissued shares when issued will be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid, and non-assessable. If additional shares of our common stock are issued, the relative interests of then existing stockholders may be diluted.
Transfer Agent
We are currently serving as our own transfer agent, and plan to continue to serve in that capacity until such time as management believes it is necessary or appropriate to employ an independent transfer agent in order to facilitate the creation of a public trading market for its securities. Should our securities be quoted on any exchange or OTC quotation system or application is made to have the securities quoted, an independent transfer agent will be appointed.
No expert or counsel named in this prospectus as having prepared or certified any part of this prospectus or having given an opinion upon the validity of the securities being registered or upon other legal matters in connection with the registration or offering of the common stock was employed on a contingency basis, or had, or is to receive, in connection with the offering, a substantial interest exceeding $50,000, direct or indirect, in the registrant or any of its parents or subsidiaries. Nor was any such person connected with the registrant or any of its parents or subsidiaries as a promoter, managing or principal underwriter, voting trustee, director, officer, or employee.
Christopher J. Moran, our independent legal counsel, has provided an opinion on the validity of our common stock.
The financial statements included in this prospectus have been audited by Lancaster & David, Chartered Accountants, to the extent and for the periods set forth in their report appearing elsewhere herein, and are included in reliance upon such report given upon the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Company pursuant to provisions of the State of Nevada, the Company has been informed that, in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in that Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
We were incorporated in the State of Nevada, USA on December 13, 2000 and are based in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. On December 18, 2000 following the resignation of the incorporator Greg Corcoran was appointed as our sole director, president and secretary.
On March 9, 2001, we entered into an asset purchase agreement with Charles Heather to acquire certain hair loss prevention and hair loss regrowth intellectual property. We were to pay CDN$25,000 in monthly instalments and issue 100,000 shares of common stock to Heather. We paid CDN$2,000 (US $1,280) and issued 100,000 shares of common stock before terminating the agreement on May 1, 2001. We are no longer involved in the hair loss business.
On May 1, 2001, we acquired our current business plan from our director. We remained idle for nearly two years due to poor market conditions until some of our investors took action to help us raise money to proceed with current developments.
To date, we have developed some test integrations of Open Source Software that we have used in house to prepare this registration statement as well as prepare our basic financial statements for our consulting accountants. Additionally, we use Open Source Software email programs and web browsers for communications and research. This gives us confidence that we can integrate and package these components in a manner that can be useful for other businesses that wish to migrate from Microsoft based environments.
We have also revised and extended our business plan to reflect the latest developments occurring in our market space.
Summary
We were incorporated in the State of Nevada, USA on December 13, 2000 with a view of developing hair loss prevention products using methods and know how to be acquired from Charles Heather an expert in this area. However, after review of the methods and know how we decided against moving into the hair loss prevention business due to the fact that it involved the growth of special plants that we believed to be difficult to grow. In May 2001, we reorganized ourselves and became a high technology development stage company.
We are now a high technology development stage company and we are engaged in the development of an initial computer product which we describe below.
Open Source Software Concept
There is a new method of software development called Open Source Software. Open Source Software requires that one understand the concept of source code and software licenses. Source code is the set of commands or "blueprints" required to build a software program. A software license is the agreement one must abide to in order to be able to use the software. Open Source Software is generally accepted to be software that has the properties listed below.
- Freely redistributable in that the software license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.
- All software programs come with source code to build the software.
- Derived works are allowed but any derived works must have the same terms of the license of the original software.
- The software license must explicitly permit distribution of software built from modified source code.
- The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.
- The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor.
- The rights attached to a software program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.
- The rights attached to a software program must not depend on the program's being part of a particular software distribution.
- The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with licensed software.
- No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or style of interface.
Open Source Software has been a very successful phenomenon since it allows a community of users with a common need to share the cost of developing software and not to be held hostage by a single vendor of computer programs. In short, the use of Open Source Software in our products allows us to dramatically reduce our research and development expenditures.
Our products will contain commodity computer hardware components that run Open Source Software. This will allow us to offer reliable systems to future customers at reasonable prices.
Recentralization Concept
In the 1960s and early 1970s there were relatively a small number of computers in the world as compared to today. Typically these types of computers were called Mainframe computers. The term "Mainframe computer" was originally used for almost any computer system and then later to describe only large computer systems. These systems were mainly used by large corporations, academic and government communities. A Mainframe computer was highly centralized with the main or primary computer being responsible for all functions.
In the mid 1970s through to today the personal computer took center stage. Computer resources became decentralized with many smaller computers doing the work of a larger one. Companies such as Microsoft and Intel became household words during this era. But the Achilles heel of this decentralization was that in many cases thousands of computers had to be individually managed and maintained. The maintenance cost of a single personal computer is often greater than the purchase cost of the personal computer itself over its useful lifetime.
Folix sees an opportunity to recentralize computing by centralizing resources in the style of Mainframe of the 1960s. These may seem backwards to some but considering today's maintenance costs in the decentralized world are significant centralization makes a good deal of sense since maintenance costs can be drastically reduced. Additionally, we will use Open Source Software to implement our vision. There is an Open Source Software project called the Linux Terminal Server Project that we can leverage to build a Recentralized system in less than one year.
Business Model
The basic business model is to sell both products and services. However, we must start with building our product first and if we are able to establish it into the market place we will be able to service our product. Our business model relies on us being successful in making a product that function as specified. This is the primary goal of our development stage, to make a recentralized computer system that we can sell to future customers.
Definition of Our Development Stage
We are defining the development stage as the period of time it takes us to develop our product. We are currently scheduling that our development stage will last approximately 12 months. This means that the funds to be raised by this prospectus cover only the development of our initial product that we can sell and support. The reason why the prospectus does not cover a longer-range plan beyond the development stage is because it is possible that we may be able to fund ourselves through initial sales of our product. However, if initial sales are slow we will require additional funds and no plans have been made to obtain these funds.
Market Analysis
To better understand our plan it will help you to see our analysis of the corporate software market. We believe that there is new opportunity for companies like us to compete against Microsoft. The mass migration to non-Microsoft technologies has yet to start in earnest. There are a small but growing number of businesses that are converting over to using Open Source Software systems. For example, according to the firm International Data Corp. the number of systems shipped with the Open Source Software Linux system is expected to grow 25% through 2003. Additionally, Microsoft itself has identified Open Source Software as a "Challenge to the Company's Business Model" in its 10-Q filling of March 31, 2003. In summary, Open Source Software is a significant opportunity for is to gain a foothold in computer industry. However, Microsoft is a formidable competitor and the outcome is far from decided.
Competition
We fully expect to have competition in the recentralized market space from both large and small companies. However, we think the market will be very big and that even a small percentage of this market will be more than enough for a company like us to be a going concern. We expect tactical moves by Microsoft to try to slow our market space down. In terms of direct competition today, we mainly see some small companies like us but we are mainly concerned with Sun Microsystems Inc., VA Software Corp. and Red Hat Inc. as the larger companies that see the market as we do. We are a much smaller company than these firms. You are encouraged to search Google with the term "Recentralized Computing" to see other possible competition. We believe competition only validates that we have identified a good market niche and, this competition will drive us to make better products for our potential customers. We intend to identify and focus on vertical markets as they become apparent to mitigate competition risks. A vertical market is a specialized market like systems for call centers or medical lab information systems.
Our Initial Product
The development of our initial product is the primary focus of the development stage. This means money raised by this prospectus will be used for the development of our initial product.
Our initial product is composed of two main components. The first component is called the Central Server, which hosts all applications and provides storage, print and other facilities depending on customer requirements. The second component is called the Thin Client, which is a medium power diskless computer with a monitor, mouse, keyboard and optional speakers. A full description of these two components is defined below.
Central Server
A Central Server is typically the main computer that a business uses in its computing environment. This main computer is typically used to store data files and to communicate with other computers and also other devices such as printers and scanners. For example, Microsoft makes a product called Windows 2003 Server to fulfill this need in the market place. This main computer that we call a Central Server has large hard drive capacity, has large amounts of memory and a fast CPU usually made by companies like Intel or AMD.
Our Central Server design will be based on integration of one or more computers running Open Source Software that is customized by us. Our Central Server will be remotely accessible via the Internet so that we don't have to visit customer sites to make adjustments, install additional software or install software upgrades.
Thin Client
A Thin Client is the computer that people will use on their desks at work that will connect to our Central Server. The Central Server does most of the work leaving the Thin Client only needing to draw the display and send mouse and keyboard clicks back to the Central Server for processing. Because the Central Server does most of the work, the Thin Client does not need to be a powerful computer and is typically smaller and cheaper to build which is where the name Thin Client is derived from.
Customers will also have an option to brand their Thin Client screens with their own corporate logos, on start up and login screens as well as the corporate desktop screen.
Technical Development
Funds raised through this offering will be used to develop our initial product. Once the offering is complete, our director, along with a number of consultants, will provide the services necessary to accomplish our product development objectives. We anticipate that this phase of our business will last for 12 months following our receipt of the proceeds of this offering.
Central Server Technical Development
Of the two components, we expect that Central Server will be the more difficult component to develop, as it will contain the more hardware and software than the Thin Client. We will design the Central Server to be easily expandable in terms of adding processing power, storage, backup facilities and network bandwidth. Our director has already completed substantial work in the implementation of the software on a prototype system running on his own hardware.
Thin Client Technical Development
We expect that the Thin Client development to be less complex than the Central Server. We aim to keep the Thin Client hardware simple, low cost and easy to use, install and maintain. No work has been done on the implementation of the Thin Client to date.
Strategic Technical Partnerships
We will seek to partner with some computer hardware companies and Open Source Software projects in software, hardware and network component areas. We will not be developing our own hardware but will be buying it from a series of suppliers. These computer hardware suppliers may need to support us with technical support if we run into issues in the development stage. To data we have no contracts with any computer hardware suppliers or Open Source Software projects.
Open Source Software
As discussed earlier, we will make use of Open Source Software technologies wherever possible to completely eliminate software-licensing costs and to have access to source code so solutions can be easily customized for specialized vertical markets. The primary benefit to using Open Source Software is that our research and development budget can be reduced substantially when compared to propriety technical development processes. Open Source Software gives us the means to develop our products very inexpensively.
Development Facilities
We will locate our development office in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This office will be opened during the development stage and this office will be supplied at no cost to us by our director. The lower value of the Canadian dollar makes Canada an ideal place to recruit development consultants at lower costs than in the US.
Development Consultants
We will use a small number of technically talented development consultants where needed to help us through the development stage. We will seek to reduce our development costs by hiring Canadian development consultants.
Services
The implementation of our service offerings is not included in the development stage. This means money raised by this prospectus will not be used for service development. We discuss it here so that you can assess our longer-range plan.
We will supply services to deploy our products and build customer solutions. By supplying computing solutions to our future customers we will be in an excellent position to learn about additional customer requirements and have an opportunity to extend business opportunities with our customers. These services will be training, consulting and network management which are described below. These services can only be provided only after we have developed our initial product.
Training
We will supply training services. We believe that some large corporations and small to medium enterprises with sensitive data will not want to have a vendor like us to have remote access into its private corporate network.Also, some corporations will want to have its own information technology staff trained to operate the entire system including both the Central Server and Thin Clients. We intend to be in a position to provide training programs to fulfill this demand once we have finished developing our initial product.
Consulting
We will supply general consulting services including but not limited to network design and development services required to integrate our systems into our future customers' computing environments. Some customers will have special requirements and perhaps will need the development of custom application programs to run their businesses. We intend to be in a position to provide these consulting services once we have finished developing our initial product.
Our business plan is to proceed with the development of our initial product so it can be sold. Development of our initial product is expected to cost us $20,000 for computer hardware plus an additional $68,000 in consulting fees. We had $87 in cash reserves as at March 31, 2003. This means we must wait for the completion of all or part of the sale of shares contained in this offering in order to proceed with development of our initial product.
While we are waiting the completion of this offering, our president will only be devoting approximately 10 hours per week of his time to our business. We do not foresee this limited involvement as negatively impacting our company while the offering process is being worked on. After we have completed this offering, Mr. Corcoran will devote 30 hours per week to develop our products and manage consultants. If however, the demands of our business require more time from Mr. Corcoran, he is prepared to adjust his timetable to devote more time to our business. However, Mr. Corcoran may not be able to devote sufficient time to the management of our business, as and when needed.
In the event we shall require additional funding beyond what we are offering in this prospectus, we anticipate that such funding will be in the form of equity financing from sale of our common stock. However, we cannot provide you with any assurance that we will be able to raise sufficient funding from the sale of our common stock to fund any unanticipated expenses. The risky nature of this business and the lack of tangible assets places debt financing beyond the credit-worthiness required by most banks or typical investors of corporate debt until such time as our products are available for sale. We do not have any arrangements in place for any future equity financing.
We anticipate that we will make an asset purchase of computer hardware worth $20,000 in the next twelve months. These assets are easily available for purchase through a number of vendors.
Additionally, we anticipate that we will incur expenses of $80,000 in the next twelve months for operating expenses. Of this amount we plan to spend $12,000 on legal, accounting and printing expenses associated with this offering and our reporting obligations and approximately $68,000 in consulting fees to develop our products. We expect to engage software development consultants known by our director as we require them.
At the end of the twelve-month period we expect to complete the development of our initial product so that it can be sold.
Results of Operations
We have not earned any revenue since inception at December 13, 2000 to March 31, 2003 and we do not expect to do so until our initial product has been developed. We are presently in the development stage of our business and we can provide no assurance that our product development efforts will be successful. If our product development efforts are successful we will commence with a sales program to sell our initial product.
We had $87 in cash reserves as at March 31, 2003, an amount due from our director's management company of $64 and a deposit of $32 held with a meeting room rental service company.
We have incurred expenses of $10,189 for the period from inception at December 13, 2000 to March 31, 2003. These expenses included:
- Payments of $4,000 to our director for our business plan;
- Accounting fees of $3,000;
- Write-offs of $1,380 for payments made to Charles Heather as a result of abandoning the hair loss prevention business and;
- General operating expenses which included incorporation fees, bank charges, foreign exchange losses, office and telephone charges, and travel and promotion of $1,809.
Since inception at December 13, 2000 to March 31, 2003 we have settled $5,070 worth of expenses with issuances of our common stock. We have accrued liabilities of $3,000 owed to our accountants, $636 to our director and $100 to a shareholder. We have received $1,566 for purchase of our common stock.
We maintain a mailing address at the office of our director and he supplies us with office space at no cost to us. We pay no monthly rent nor own real estate.
Prior to the date of this Registration statement we issued 4,000,000 shares to Greg Corcoran on May 1, 2001 pursuant to a Business Plan Purchase Agreement dated May 1, 2001 for our current business plan. Additionally, a deposit of $64 is being held with Mr. Corcoran's management company 591519 BC Ltd.
None of the following parties has, since our date of incorporation, had any material interest, direct or indirect, in any transaction with us or in any presently proposed transaction that has or will materially affect us, other than noted in this section:
- Any or our directors or officers;
- Any person proposed as a nominee for election as a director;
- Any person who beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, shares carrying more than 10% of the voting rights attached to our outstanding shares of common stock;
- Any of our promoters;
- Any relative or spouse of any of the foregoing persons who has the same house as such persons
No Public Market for our Common Stock
There is presently no public market for our common stock. We anticipate making an application for trading of our common stock on the NASD Over the Counter Bulletin Board upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. However, we can provide no assurance that our shares will be traded on the bulletin board or, if traded, that a public market will materialize.
The Securities Exchange Commission has adopted rules that regulate broker-dealer practices in connection with transactions in penny stocks. Penny stocks are generally equity securities with a price of less than $5.00, other than securities registered on certain national securities exchanges or quoted on the NASDAQ system, provided that current price and volume information with respect to transactions in such securities is provided by the exchange or system. The penny stock rules require a broker-dealer, prior to a transaction in a penny stock, to deliver a standardized risk disclosure document prepared by the Commission, that:
- Contains a description of the nature and level of risk in the market for penny stocks in both public offerings and secondary trading;
- Contains a description of the broker's or dealer's duties to the customer and of the rights and remedies available to the customer with respect to a violation to such duties or other requirements of Securities' laws;
- Contains a brief, clear, narrative description of a dealer market, including bid and ask prices for penny stocks and the significance of the spread between the bid and ask price;
- Contains a toll-free telephone number for inquiries on disciplinary actions;
- Defines significant terms in the disclosure document or in the conduct of trading in penny stocks; and
- Contains such other information and is in such form, including language, type, size and format, as the Commission shall require by rule or regulation. The broker-dealer also must provide, prior to effecting any transaction in a penny stock, the customer with:
- Bid and offer quotations for the penny stock;
- The compensation of the broker-dealer and its salesperson in the transaction;
- The number of shares to which such bid and ask prices apply, or other comparable information relating to the depth and liquidity of the market for such stock; and
- A monthly account statements showing the market value of each penny stock held in the customer's account. In addition, the penny stock rules require that prior to a transaction in a penny stock not otherwise exempt from those rules; the broker-dealer must make a special written determination that the penny stock is a suitable investment for the purchaser and receive the purchaser's written acknowledgment of the receipt of a risk disclosure statement, written agreement to transactions involving penny stocks, and a signed and dated copy of a written suitably statement.
These disclosure requirements may have the effect of reducing the trading activity in the secondary market for our stock if it becomes subject to these penny stock rules. Therefore, if our common stock becomes subject to the penny stock rules, stockholders may have difficulty selling those securities.
Holders of Our Common Stock
As of the March 31, 2003 we had thirteen (13) registered shareholders.
Stock Option Grants
To date, we have not granted any stock options.
Registration Rights
We have not granted registration rights to the selling shareholders or to any other person.
We are paying the expenses of the offering because we seek to:
- Become a reporting company with the Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
- Enable our common stock to be traded on the NASD over-the-counter bulletin board. We plan to file a Form 8-A registration statement with the Commission prior to the effectiveness of the Form SB-2 registration statement. The filing of the Form 8-A registration statement will cause us to become a reporting company with the Commission under the 1934 Act concurrently with the effectiveness of the Form SB-2 registration statement. We must be a reporting company under the 1934 Act in order that our common stock is eligible for trading on the NASD over-the-counter bulletin board. We believe that the registration of the resale of shares on behalf of existing shareholders may facilitate the development of a public market in our common stock if our common stock is approved for trading on the NASD over-the-counter bulletin board.
We consider that the development of a public market for our common stock will make an investment in our common stock more attractive to future investors. In the near future, in order for us to continue with sales and marketing programs, we will need to raise additional capital. We believe that obtaining reporting company status under the 1934 Act and trading on the OTCBB should increase our ability to raise these additional funds from investors.
Dividends
There are no restrictions in our articles of incorporation or bylaws that restrict us from declaring dividends. The Nevada Revised Statues, however, do prohibit us from declaring dividends where, after giving effect to the distribution of the dividend:
- We would not be able to pay our debts as they become due in the usual course of business; or
- Our total assets would be less than the sum of our total liabilities, plus the amount the would be needed to satisfy the rights of the shareholders who have preferential rights superior to those receiving the distribution.
Summary Compensation Table
The table below summarizes all compensation awarded to, earned by, or paid to our sole executive officer for all services rendered in all capacities to us for the fiscal period ended March 31, 2003.
Annual Compensation | Long Term Compensation |
Name | Title | Year | Salary | Bonus | Other Annual Compensation | Restricted Stock Awarded | Options/* SARs (#) | LTIP Payout ($) | All Other Compensation |
Greg Corcoran | Director, President, Secretary | 2002 2001 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 0 | $ 0 $ 4,000 |
Stock Option Grants
We did not grant any stock options to the sole executive officer during our most recent fiscal year ended March 31, 2003. We have also not granted any stock options to the sole executive officer since inception.
Folix Technologies, Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Index to Financial Statements
Auditors' Report | F-1 |
Balance Sheets | F-2 |
Statements of Operations | F-3 |
Statements of Cash Flows | F-4 |
Statements of Stockholders' Equity | F-5 |
Notes to the Financial Statements | F-6 |
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT AUDITORS
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Folix Technologies, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Folix Technologies, Inc. as at March 31, 2003 and 2002, and the related statements of operations, cash flows and stockholders' equity for the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards used in the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Folix Technologies, Inc., as at March 31, 2003 and 2002, and the related statements of operations, cash flows and stockholders' equity for the years then ended, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles used in the United States.
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company is in the development stage of operations, has losses from operations since inception, no source of revenues and insufficient working capital available to meet ongoing financial obligations over the next fiscal year. These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. Management's plans in regard to these matters are also discussed in Note 1. These financial statements do not include any adjustments which might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
"Lancaster & David" signed
Chartered Accountants
Vancouver, Canada
May 5, 2003
Folix Technologies, Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Balance Sheets
(expressed in U.S. Dollars)
| March 31, 2003 $ | March 31, 2002 $ |
Assets | | |
Current Assets | | |
Cash | 87 | 68 |
Amount due from affiliate (Note 4(d)) | 64 | - |
Deposits | 32 | 32 |
Total Assets | 183 | 100 |
| | |
Liabilities and Stockholders' Deficit | | |
Current Liabilities | | |
Accrued Liablities | 3,000 | 2,000 |
Due to director (Note4(a)) | 636 | 409 |
Due to a shareholder | 100 | - |
Total Liabilities | 3,736 | 2,409 |
Commitments (Note 1) | | |
Stockholders' Deficit | | |
Common Stock, 50,000,000 common shares authorized with a par value of $0.001, 6,636,000 common shares issued and outstanding | 6,636 | 6,636 |
Deficit Accumulated During the Development Stage | (10,189) | (8,945) |
Total Stockholders' Deficit | (3,553) | (2,309) |
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Deficit | 183 | 100 |
Folix Technologies, Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Statements of Operations
(expressed in U.S. Dollars)
| Year Ended March 31, 2003 $ | Year Ended March 31, 2002 $ | From December 13, 2000 (Date of Inception) to March 31, 2003 $ |
Revenue | - | - | - |
| | | |
Expenses | | | |
| | | |
Accounting and audit | 1,000 | 1,000 | 3,000 |
Bank Charges | 23 | 42 | 72 |
Consulting (Note 4(c)) | - | 4,000 | 4,000 |
Foreign Exchange | 21 | 4 | 75 |
Office and telephone | 200 | 295 | 525 |
Organizational | - | - | 970 |
Travel and promotion | - | 167 | 167 |
Write-off of assets | - | - | 1,380 |
| 1,244 | 5,508 | 10,189 |
Net Loss for the Period | (1,244) | (5,508) | (10,189) |
Net Loss Per Share | (0.000) | (0,001) | |
Weighted Average Shares Outstanding | 6,636,000 | 6,636,000 | |
(Diluted loss per share has not been presented as the result is anti-dilutive)
Folix Technolgies, Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Statement of Cash Flows
(expressed in U.S. Dollars)
| Year Ended March 31, 2003 $ | Year Ended March 31, 2002 $ | From December 13, 2000 (Date of Inception) to March 31, 2003 $ |
Cash Flows to Operating Activities | | | |
Net loss for the period | (1,244) | (5,508) | (10,189) |
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to cash | | | |
Expenses settled with issuance of stock | - | 4,000 | 5,070 |
Change in operating assets and liabilities | | | |
(Increase) in amount owing from related party | (64) | - | (64) |
(Increase) in deposit | - | (32) | (32) |
Increase in accrued liablities | 1,000 | 1,000 | 3,000 |
Increase in amounts due to director | 227 | 252 | 636 |
Increase in amouts due to shareholder | 100 | - | 100 |
Net Cash Provided by (Used In) Operating Activities | 19 | (288) | (1,479) |
Cash Flows from Financing Activities | | | |
Issuance of common stock for cash | - | - | 1,566 |
Net Cash Provided by Financing Activities | - | - | 1,566 |
Increase (deacrease) in cash | 19 | (288) | 87 |
Cash - beginning of period | 68 | 356 | - |
Cash - end of period | 87 | 68 | 87 |
Non-Cash Financing Activities | | | |
Common stock issued for asset purchase | - | - | 100 |
Common stock issued for payment of expenses | - | 4,000 | 4,970 |
Supplemental Disclosures | | | |
Interest Paid | - | - | - |
Income Tax Paid | - | - | - |
Folix Technologies, Inc.
(A Development Stage Company)
Statement of Stockholders' Equity
From December 13, 2000 (Date of Inception) to March 31, 2003
(expressed in U.S. Dollars)
| Shares # | Amount $ | Deficit Accumulated During the Development Stage $ | Total $ |
Balance December 13, 2000 (Date of Inception) | - | - | - | - |
Common stock issued for cash | 1,566,000 | 1,566 | - | 1,566 |
Common stock issued for organizational expenses | 970,000 | 970 | - | 970 |
Common stock issued for asset purchase | 100,000 | 100 | - | 100 |
Net loss for the period | - | - | (3,437) | (3,437) |
Balancee March 31, 2001 | 2,636,000 | 2,636 | (3,437) | (801) |
Common Stock Issued for services | 4,000,000 | 4,000 | - | 4,000 |
Net Loss for the year | - | - | (5,508) | (5,508) |
Balance March 31, 2002 | 6,636,000 | 6,636 | (8,945) | (2,309) |
Net Loss for the year | - | - | (1,244) | (1,244) |
Balance March 31, 2003 | 6,636,000 | 6,636 | (10,189) | (3,553) |
Development Stage Company
Folix Technologies Inc. (the "Company") was incorporated in the State of Nevada, U.S.A. on December 13, 2000 and is based in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
The Company's principal business is the development of a Linux based application server and thin client computing systems.
On March 9, 2001, the Company entered into an asset purchase agreement with Charles Heather to acquire certain hair loss prevention and hair loss regrowth intellectual property. The Company was to pay CDN$25,000 in monthly instalments and issue 100,000 shares of common stock. The Company paid CDN$2,000 (US $1,280) and issued 100,000 shares of common stock before terminating the agreement on May 1, 2001. The Company is no longer involved in the hair loss business.
The Company is in the early development stage. In a development stage company, management devotes most of its activities in developing a market for its products and services. Planned principal activities have not yet begun. The ability of the Company to emerge from the development stage with respect to any planned principal business activity is dependent upon its successful efforts to raise additional equity financing and/or attain profitable operations. There is no guarantee that the Company will be able to raise any equity financing or sell any of its products and services at a profit. During the period since inception on December 13, 2000 to March 31, 2003, the Company has incurred operating losses aggregating $10,189. At March 31, 2003 the Company has a working capital deficiency of $3,553 and a stockholders' deficit of $3,553. There is substantial doubt regarding the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
(a)Basis of Presentation
The Company has not produced any revenues from its principal business and is a development stage company as defined by Statement of Financial Accounting Standard ("SFAS") No. 7.
(b)Use of Estimates
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
(c)Year End
The Company's fiscal year end is March 31.
(d)Cash and Cash Equivalents
The Company considers all highly liquid instruments with a maturity of three months or less at the time of issuance to be cash equivalents.
(e)Foreign Currency Translation
The Company's functional and reporting currency is the United States dollar. The financial statements of the Company are translated to United States dollars in accordance with SFAS No. 52 "Foreign Currency Translation". Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated using the exchange rate prevailing at the balance sheet date. Gains and losses arising on translation or settlement of foreign currency denominated transactions or balances are included in the determination of income. Foreign currency transactions are primarily undertaken in Canadian dollars. The Company has not, to the date of these financials statements, entered into derivative instruments to offset the impact of foreign currency fluctuations.
(f)Stock-Based Compensation
The Company has adopted SFAS No. 123 "Accounting for Stock Based Compensation" which requires that stock awards granted to employees and non-employees are recognized as compensation expense based on the fair market value of the goods or services received whichever is more reliably measurable. The Company does not have a stock option plan and has not issued stock options since its inception.
(g)Basic and Diluted Net Income (Loss) Per Share
The Company computes net income (loss) per share in accordance with SFAS No. 128, "Earnings per Share" (SFAS 128). SFAS 128 requires presentation of both basic and diluted earnings per share (EPS) on the face of the income statement. Basic EPS is computed by dividing net income (loss) available to common shareholders (numerator) by the weighted average number of shares outstanding (denominator) during the period. Diluted EPS gives effect to all dilutive potential common shares outstanding during the period including stock options, using the treasury stock method, and convertible preferred stock, using the if-converted method. In computing Diluted EPS, the average stock price for the period is used in determining the number of shares assumed to be purchased from the exercise of stock options or warrants. Diluted EPS excludes all dilutive potential shares if their effect is anti dilutive.
(h)Financial Instruments
Financial instruments which include cash and equivalents, accrued liabilities, and due to a related party were estimated to approximate their carrying values due to the immediate or short-term maturity of these financial instruments. The Company's operations are in Canada and virtually all of its assets and liabilities are giving rise to significant exposure to market risks from changes in foreign currency rates. The financial risk is the risk to the Company's operations that arise from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and the degree of volatility of these rates. Currently, the Company does not use derivative instruments to reduce its exposure to foreign currency risk.
(i)Comprehensive Loss
SFAS No. 130, "Reporting Comprehensive Income," establishes standards for the reporting and display of comprehensive loss and its components in the financial statements. As of March 31, 2003 the Company has no items that represent comprehensive loss and, therefore, has not included a schedule of comprehensive loss in the financial statements.
(j)Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In December 2003, the FASB issued SFAS No. 148, "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation - Transition and Disclosure," which amends SFAS No. 123 to provide alternative methods of transition for a voluntary change to the fair value based method of accounting for stock-based employee compensation. In addition, SFAS No. 148 expands the disclosure requirements of SFAS No. 123 to require more prominent disclosures in both annual and interim financial statements about the method of accounting for stock-based employee compensation and the effect of the method used on reported results. The transition provisions of SFAS No. 148 are effective for fiscal years ended after December 15, 2002. The transition provisions do not currently have an impact on the Company's financial position and results of operations as the Company has not elected to adopt SFAS No. 123's fair value based method of accounting for stock based employee compensation. The disclosure provisions of SFAS No. 148 are effective for financial statements for interim periods beginning after December 15, 2002. The Company will adopt the disclosure requirements of SFAS No. 148 in the first quarter of fiscal 2004.
In June, 2003, FASB issued SFAS No. 146, "Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities". The provisions of this Statement are effective for exit or disposal activities that are initiated after March 31, 2003, with early application encouraged. This Statement addresses financial accounting and reporting for costs associated with exit or disposal activities and nullifies Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF) Issue No. 94-3, "Liability Recognition for Certain Employee Termination Benefits and Other Costs to Exit an Activity (including Certain Costs Incurred in a Restructuring)". This Statement requires that a liability for a cost associated with an exit or disposal activity be recognized when the liability is incurred. The Company will adopt SFAS No. 146 on April 1, 2003. The effect of adoption of this standard on the Company's results of operations and financial position is not expected to be material.
FASB has also issued SFAS No. 145 and 147 but they will not have any relationship to the operations of the Company therefore a description of each and their respective impact on the Company's operations have not been disclosed.
Common shares
Non-cash consideration
Shares issued for non-cash consideration were valued based on the fair market value of the services provided.
(a) During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002, on May 1, 2001, the Company issued 4,000,000 shares of its common stock at par value of $0.001 to its sole director for consulting services related to development of a business plan in the area of Linux application servers. The Company charged $4,000 to operations for the year ended March 31, 2002.
(b) During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001, the Company issued a total of 2,536,000 shares of its common stock at par value for payment of operating expenses. Of this amount a total of 970,000 shares were issued to the Company's sole director for payment of incorporation fees.
(c) For the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001, the Company charged to operations consulting fees in the amount of $1,380 that were paid in cash and 100,000 shares of common stock issued at par value.
Related Party Transactions/Balances
(a) Due to director
The amount due to a director represents expenses paid on behalf of the Company. The amount due is non-interest bearing, unsecured and has no specific terms of repayment.
(b) Due to stockholder
The amount due to a stockholder represents monies loaned to the Company. The amount due is non-interest bearing, unsecured and has no specific terms of repayment.
(c) Transactions with director
During 2002, the Company was charged a total of $4,000 for consulting services performed by the sole director of the Company.
(d) Due from affiliated company
In June 2002, the Company advanced $64 to a related company controlled by the sole director. The amount is non-interest bearing with no specific terms of repayment.
Income Tax
Potential benefits of income tax losses are not recognized in the accounts until realization is more likely than not. The Company has adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 109 ("SFAS 109") as of its inception. The Company has incurred net operating losses of $10,189, which expire starting in 2015. Pursuant to SFAS 109 the Company is required to compute tax asset benefits for net operating losses carried forward. Potential benefit of net operating losses have not been recognized in these financial statements because the Company cannot be assured it is more likely than not it will utilize the net operating losses carried forward in future years.
The components of the net deferred tax asset at March 31, 2003 and 2002, and the statutory tax rate, the effective tax rate and the elected amount of the valuation allowance are scheduled below:
| 2003 $ | 2002 $ |
Net Operating Loss | 1,244 | 5,508 |
Statutory Tax Rate | 34% | 34% |
Effective Tax Rate | - | - |
Deferred Tax Asset | 423 | 1,873 |
Valuation Allowance | (423) | (1,873) |
Net Deferred Tax Asset | - | - |
Subsequent Event
On April 7, 2003 the Company issued 25,000 shares of its common stock at $0.20 per share for total proceeds of $5,000 under Regulation S.
During our two most recent fiscal years and any subsequent interim period, there were no disagreements with our accountants on any matter of accounting principle or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedure. In addition, there were no reportable events as described in Item 304(a)(1)(iv)(B)1 through 3 of Regulation S-B that occurred within our two most recent fiscal years and the subsequent interim periods.
PART II - INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
Indemnification of Directors and Officers
As permitted by Nevada law, our Articles of Incorporation provide that we will indemnify our directors and officers against expenses and liabilities they incur to defend, settle or satisfy any civil or criminal action brought against them on account of their being or having been directors or officers of us, unless, in any such action, they are adjudged to have acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct.
Exclusion of Liabilities
Pursuant to the laws of the State of Nevada, our Articles of Incorporation exclude personal liability for its directors for monetary damages based upon any violation of their fiduciary duties as directors, except as to liability for any breach of the duty of loyalty, acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, acts in violation of Section 7-106-401 of the Nevada Business Corporation Act, or any transaction from which a director receives an improper personal benefit. This exclusion of liability does not limit any right, which a director may have to be indemnified, and does not affect any director's liability under federal or applicable state securities laws.
Disclosure of Commission position on Indemnification for Securities Act Liabilities
As previously indicated in Part I of this registration statement, insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Company pursuant to provisions of the State of Nevada, the Company has been informed that, in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in that Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.
Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution
The estimated costs of this offering are as follows:
SEC Registration fee | $16 |
Accounting fees and expenses | $5,000 |
Legal fees and expenses | $5,000 |
EDGAR filing fees | $1,800 |
Printing | $200 |
Total | $12,016 |
Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
We completed an offering of 2,536,000 shares of our common stock at a price of $0.001 per share to a total of three purchasers during January 2001 and March 2001. We issued 100,000 shares of its common stock on March 15, 2001 to Charles Heather shares as part of a payment to have an option on his hair loss prevention business.
The initial offering of 2,536,000 shares and 100,000 shares were issued pursuant to Regulation S and Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. Each purchaser represented to us that he or she was a non-U.S. person as defined in Regulation S. Additionally, when shares were transferred on May 1, 2001 we had each transferee represent to us that he or she was a non-U.S. person as defined in Regulation S. We have not engaged in a distribution of any offering in the United States. Appropriate legends were affixed to each stock certificate issued to each shareholder in accordance with Regulation S.
Prior to the date of this Registration statement we issued 4,000,000 shares to our sole director on May 1, 2001 pursuant to a Business Plan Purchase Agreement dated May 1, 2001.
Exhibits
Exhibit Number | Description |
3.1 | Articles of Incorporation |
3.2 | By-Laws |
4.1 | Instrument Defining the Rights of Security Holders |
5.1 | Opinion of Lawyer Christopher J. Moran |
10.1 | Business Plan Purchase Agreement |
23.1 | Consent of Independent Auditor |
Undertakings
The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement to:
a)Include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;
b)Reflect in our prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this registration statement, or most recent post-effective amendment, which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this registration statement. Not withstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease if the securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) (230.424(b) of this chapter if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration statement.
That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered hereby which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under that Securities Act may be permitted to our directors, officers and controlling persons pursuant to the provisions above, or otherwise, we have been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act, and is, therefore, unenforceable.
In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities, other than the payment by us of expenses incurred or paid by one of our directors, officers or controlling persons in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding, is asserted by one of our directors, officers or controlling persons in connection with the securities being registered, we will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification is against the public policy as expressed in the Securities Act, and a will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form SB-2 and authorized this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, in the City of Vancouver, Province of British Columbia on August 13, 2003.
Folix Technologies, Inc.
By:
/S/ G L Corcoran
Greg Corcoran, President,
Principal Financial Officer,
Principal Accounting Officer,
Sole Director