GoChip Inc. $20,000,000 Class B Common Stock Offering Circular
(conforms to Regulation A+ Tier 1 rules)
THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION DOES NOT PASS UPON THE MERITS OF OR GIVE ITS APPROVAL TO ANY SECURITIES OFFERED OR THE TERMS OF THE OFFERING, NOR DOES IT PASS UPON THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY OFFERING CIRCULAR OR OTHER SELLING LITERATURE. THESE SECURITIES ARE OFFERED PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION WITH THE COMMISSION; HOWEVER, THE COMMISSION HAS NOT MADE AN INDEPENDENT DETERMINATION THAT THE SECURITIES OFFERED HEREUNDER ARE EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION.
Offered directly by the issuer:
GoChip Inc. $20,000,000 Class B Common Stock Offering | ||||||||||||||
Price to public | Underwriting discount and commissions | Proceeds to Issuer | Proceeds to other persons | |||||||||||
Per share: | $ | 4.00 | 5 | % | $ | 3.80 | N/A | |||||||
Total Minimum: | $ | 4.00 | 5 | % | $ | 3.80 | N/A | |||||||
Total Maximum: | $ | 20,000,000 | 5 | % | $ | 19,000,000 | N/A |
GoChip Inc.
275 Airpark Blvd Ste 100
Chico, CA 95973
(530) 591-5991
www.GoChip.com
Risk Factors are listed on page 3
Date of sale to the public - October 1, 2015
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Table of Contents
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Management believes the most significant risk to potential shareholders is the company’s inability to drive consumer adoption. Significant consumer adoption will be required in order for the company to meet its goals. Customer acquisition costs are not yet known or predictable. If customer acquisition costs are greater than the potential profit per customer the company will not be sustainable, which will result in the loss of some or all of the value of the company’s shares.
The company will need adequate capital to create consumer awareness necessary to achieve critical mass required for success. As customer acquisition costs are not known, nor are the specific metrics of digital media to introduce customers to the company’s products and services known, capital requirements could exceed available capital causing a detrimental impact on the value of the company’s shares.
Ultimate enterprise value is directly related to consumer adoption which in turn will drive additional segments of targeted industries to develop products and services based on the Company’s media format and infrastructure. If consumer adoption is not adequate to drive these additional segments, the company will not reach its intended potential and this will result in the loss of value or inability to create targeted value for shareholders.
The company plans to ultimately provide customer access to nearly all forms of digital entertainment content via its Mobile Entertainment Network. This will include short form, movie and TV content including DVR content from cable and satellite operators (Comcast, TWC, DirecTV, Dish and others), user generated content (GoPro, YouTube, Vimeo and others) and content from streaming subscription services (Amazon, Netflix, Vessel, Hulu and others). All of these sources of content have differing strategic imperatives, policies and licensing arrangements with content owners. The company’s plan to create this Mobile Entertainment Network faces numerous difficult challenges that could result in higher costs, longer implementation times or complete failure to produce the intended result, all of which would have a negative impact on shareholder value.
Internet access could become globally available, with reliable, cost effective and fast enough data access to make the company’s products and services less valuable to consumers. This would have a serious negative impact on the value of the company’s shares.
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Use of Proceeds to GoChip Inc.
Net funds raised (after commissions = $19,000,000) will be used to execute the company’s business plan. The Company reserves the right to employ commissioned sales agents to sell some or all of the shares in this offering. The Company will pay approximately 5% commission to sales agents for shares sold by them.
The funds will be applied as follows:
● | $9,000,000 - Consumer awareness/marketing: |
● | Tech, entertainment, family and business travel reviewers will cause early adoption | |
● | Social media advertising campaigns on all major platforms (Facebook, Twitter and others) | |
● | Targeted, performance-based, digital and traditional advertising | |
● | Celebrity endorsements | |
● | Other |
● | $4,750,000 - General expenses including sales, administration and operating capital |
● | $2,000,000 - Signing bonuses for company executives, management and consultants in startup team including the founder/CEO |
● | $1,500,000 - Technology development: |
● | Hardware and software development to enhance current and future products |
● | $1,500,000 - Debt repayment including payments to company founder/CEO and related party enterprises as more fully defined below |
The founder, CEO, chairman of the board of directors and majority owner of the company, along with entities he owns or has majority interest in, have provided capital loans to the business over the past several years. These loans will be partially or fully repaid upon receipt of funds from this offering. Additionally, the founder, CEO, chairman of the board of directors and majority owner of the company has worked full-time for the past several years with no compensation. In recognition of these contributions, he will receive a significant bonus, paid by the company in part or full, upon receipt of funds from this offering.
If the company does not sell all of the shares and therefore does not raise the full amount intended, the company will revise its use of proceeds accordingly. Management will always use its best judgment in the allocation of funds even if less than the full offering amount is received by the company.
THE COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE USE OF PROCEEDS WITHOUT NOTICE
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Over the past three years, GoChip Inc. (formerly FlixChip Corp.) has formed a world class team of experienced and well connected industry veterans. The GoChip team researched, designed, patented, prototyped, tested, refined, developed and evangelized the infrastructure and product line that forms the GoChip ecosystem. The principle products and services are:
● | GoChip - our solid-state memory, collectible, core product, first production GoChips are available for sale now |
● | GoChip Micro-USB - an adapter that works with our free GoChip Android Player app (available on Google Play store) to play content on GoChip media using Android smartphones and tablets, first production units are available for sale now |
● | GoChip USB (first production units are available for sale now) - an adapter that works with our free: |
● | GoChip OS X Player app (available on GoChip.com) to play content on GoChip media using Apple tower, desktop and notebook computers | |
● | GoChip Windows Player app (available on GoChip.com) to play content on GoChip media using Windows tower, desktop and notebook computers | |
● | GoChip Android Player app (available on Google Play store) to play content on GoChip media using Android TVs |
● | GoChip Wi-Fi (second generation units are being developed for sale in 60 days) - an adapter that plays GoChip media content with: |
● | iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod) with our free GoChip iOS Player app (available now on Apple iTunes app store) | |
● | Android devices (smartphones, tablets & TVs) with our free GoChip Android Player app (available now on Google Play store) | |
● | OS X devices (Apple tower, desktop and notebook computers) with our free GoChip OS X Player app (v1.0 available now) | |
● | Windows devices (tower, desktop and notebook computers) with our free GoChip Windows Player app (will be available on GoChip.com circa September 2015) |
● | GoChip SecurePlay - our cloud-based infrastructure that supports all of our apps on all platforms including the content ingestion, encoding, encryption, user management authentication and rental/sales of content to refresh blank GoChips (operational today, being continually improved to support greatly functionality and scalability for product launch circa September 2015) |
● | GoChip TV 4K (in development for planned deployment mid 2016) - a Roku-like or Apple TV-like set-top-box that allows users to play any content on GoChip media (prepackaged movies, TV series or refreshed content on blank GoChips) using any TV that has HDMI inputs and importantly, can support the upcoming ultra-high definition (UHD) resolutions found increasingly on new TVs |
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The entire product line (except GoChip TV) and supporting infrastructure is market-ready. Over the next two years, substantial continued new product development will happen concurrently with myriad product and service enhancements to support an ever growing number of distribution channels, content sources and use cases. The initial product launch late in 2015 will include first versions of all products/services mentioned above except GoChip TV 4K that may not be ready until mid 2016. The launch assortment of GoChips will include about a dozen recently released major studio blockbuster films and TV series expected to be available to GoChip. After the initial launch, GoChip will regularly add additional new release blockbuster movie and TV series titles (on or before the availability date of the same content titles on DVD/Blu-ray) for sale to consumers. GoChip products will initially be sold on our GoChip.com website store and our Amazon.com marketplace store.
The company will develop numerous additional sales channels through partners and directly over the next two years. As an example, the company executed a multi-year, multi-million dollar, exclusive international contract with a leading global distributor of entertainment products to a specific niche. Another example is the recent completion of a paid contract with a major US automaker to integrate GoChip technology into future model year cars. Similar contracts and opportunities in the consumer electronics, satellite and cable distribution and transportation industries are already being pursued.
GoChip has been developed by an enthusiastic, ambitious group of individuals who have contributed greatly of their time and talent. Some have received some cash compensation, some have received some equity compensation and others have not. Thus far, there are no actual employees of the company, full or part time. Upon receipt of sufficient funds from this offering, the company will gradually hire about 30 individuals permanent full time, some of whom have been significant contributors to date.
The company has dedicated manufacturing space at its contract manufacturing facility in Taiwan. The company has paid for and owns its printed circuit board designs, injection molds for cases and GoChips, special proprietary memory chip components, Wi-Fi firmware, software, apps and supporting infrastructure. The company currently leases one 6,000 square foot facility, in Chico, CA, where administration, creative, printing, assembly, testing, product design and technical development are being performed. The company does not own any real estate or plants. Upon receipt of sufficient funds from this offering, the company will establish a San Francisco bay area office facility to support our technology development team. Additionally, the company will open an office in the Los Angeles area to support business development, sales, marketing, advertising and other functions where the proximity to the power center of the entertainment industry is advantageous.
The company has not filed bankruptcy, receivership or has been a party in any similar proceeding. The company has no actual or threatened material legal proceedings against it. The company has had no recent material reclassification, merger, consolidation, purchase or sale of a significant amount of assets not in the ordinary course of business.
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Management’s Discussion and Analysis
of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The company has been largely “stealth-developed” using funds primarily borrowed from its founder/CEO and related enterprises. The company was prelaunch, pre-revenue until early 2015. The financial statements for 2013 and 2014 reflect little insight except that relatively few dollars were spent on research and development compared with peer companies. The company has developed an entire ecosystem with the input and feedback from high level industry executives representing every area of its business landscape. On a traction per dollar basis the company has performed very admirably according to numerous people developing businesses in similar spaces. Therefore, the 2013 and 2014 financial statements show costs associated with developing the technology while working with numerous parties in companies based in several different countries. There are no significant changes in any particular category or area of the financial statements that would be useful in evaluating future business outcomes as these statements reflect developmental company time periods. As a developmental stage company funded by its founder, it has had almost no liquidity. The specific reason to raise the funds using this offering is to increase capitalization to allow for rapid product rollout, growth and market penetration.
The company garnered its first real revenue in the first half of 2015. The type of business the company is engaged in is highly scalable and should produce faster growing revenue than expenses (percentage) resulting in increased operating margin percent over time.
There is far too little operating experience to use historical financial statements to ascertain the likelihood of attaining any particular future goals.
The company’s plan of operation for the 12 month period following receipt of funds from this offering is well thought out and can easily be accomplished with adequate capital reserves provided by funds raised from this offering. In the event that less than $20,000,000 is raised from this offering, the company will grow correspondingly slower with fewer and smaller expenditures in advance of revenue recognition.
The 12 month operating plan following completion of this offering is summarized below:
● | Hire executives and key personnel as full time permanent employees |
● | Establish bases of operation in SF and LA areas for technology development and business development respectively |
● | Launch products to consumers using online sales (GoChip and Amazon) |
● | Start public relations and consumer awareness campaign with approximately 200 high profile product reviewers and thought leading journalists (already contracted) that cover tech, entertainment, family and travel (our first four targeted demographics) |
● | Use all major social platforms for pay-for-performance targeted consumer awareness and sales |
● | Celebrity endorsements and cross-marketing opportunities through talent agencies |
● | Co-marketing opportunities with brands, automakers and consumer electronics manufacturers |
● | Co-marketing opportunities with content owners and distributors including studios, networks and OTT service providers |
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Directors, Executive Officers and Significant Employees
The table below summarizes key full time contributors during the startup phase of the company. All of these individuals, and several more, are key to the growth phase of the company. Directors are elected for three (3) year terms except the Chairman who is elected for six (6) year terms.
Name | Position | Age | ||||
Executive Officers: | ||||||
John Strisower | Founder/CEO, Secretary, Treasurer, President | 53 | ||||
Dennis Hupp | SVP Sales, Marketing & Operations | 43 | ||||
Paul Wolfe | VP Sales | 53 | ||||
Han Cho | VP Supply Chain | 41 | ||||
Directors: | ||||||
John Strisower | Chairman | 53 | ||||
Paul Wolfe | Director | 53 | ||||
Significant Employees: | ||||||
Hampton Maxwell | Technology Lead | 36 | ||||
David Kuehne | Creative Director | 60 |
John Strisower has served full time continuously since the inception of the company through the present time. Mr. Strisower’s term as Chairman of the Board of Directors runs from 12-1-2011 to 11-30-2017. All of the above personnel have been contributing members of the team since January 1, 2013 or before through the present time
Additionally, the following individuals have agreed to full time permanent executive and/or board positions:
● | Kevin Corbett - President Deluxe Digital, Intel Capital |
● | Stacy Jolna - CPO TiVo, SVP TV Guide Digital, SVP CNN |
● | David Cook - President Rovi Entertainment |
● | Mitch Lowe - Cofounder Netflix, cofounder/President Redbox |
● | Mariana Danilovic - KPMG, Mandalay, Sony Ventures |
Brief backgrounds of key individuals follow:
John Strisower
● | GoChip Inc. - Founding CEO | |
● | FlixChip Corp. - Founding CEO | |
Was renamed GoChip Inc. in June 2015 |
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● | PathoLase, Inc. - Founding CEO | |
Medical device maker with patented market leading technology, first cleared by the FDA, first cleared in Japan and South Korea | ||
● | Travidia, Inc. - Founding CEO | |
Internet advertising company (still operating) sold to a consortium of newspaper companies in 2011 | ||
● | PRC Gamings Systems Inc. - Founding CEO | |
Patented casino table game player tracking system company (still operating) sold to Harrah’s Entertainment | ||
● | Precision Resource Company, LLC - Founding CEO | |
Computer networking company (still operating), sold in a management buyout | ||
● | BS Computer Science, California State University Chico | |
● | Certified Network Engineer |
Kevin Corbett
● | Deluxe Digital Distribution Company 2011-2015 - President and Chief Executive | |
● | MacAndrews & Forbes 2009-2011 - Executive Vice President Corporate Development | |
● | Intel Corporation 1992-2009 |
● | Intel Capital Media Entertainment 2007-2009 - Vice President and Managing Director | ||
● | Intel Digital Home Content Group 2005-2007 - Vice President and General Manager | ||
● | Intel Digital Platforms Group 2003-2005 - Vice President and Chief Technology Officer | ||
● | Intel Desktop Platforms Group 2001-2003 - Vice President Marketing and Strategy | ||
● | Intel Desktop Platforms Group 1997-2001 - Director Strategic Planning | ||
● | 1992-1997 - Worldwide Regional Sales Manager, Compaq Account |
● | BS Computer Science and Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, University of Texas |
Stacy Jolna
● | MemeTV - Chief Marketing Officer/Cofounder | |
● | Newscorp./TV Guide - Senior Vice President | |
● | Fallon Worldwide - Business Lead | |
● | TiVo - Chief Programming Officer/Strategic Partnerships | |
● | Time Warner/CNN - SVP/Senior Executive Producer | |
● | MS Journalism, Boston College |
David Cook
● | Rovi - Senior Vice President and General Manager Entertainment Store | |
● | CinemaNow - President and COO | |
● | Loudeye - Vice President of Media | |
● | Widevine - advisory board member | |
● | Entertainment Merchant Association - board member |
Mitch Lowe
● | Redbox 2003-2011 - Cofounder, Chief Operating Officer and President | |
● | Netflix 1998-2003 - Cofounder, Vice President Business Development and Strategic Alliances |
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Mariana Danilovic
● | Hollywood Portfolio - Founder and Managing Director | |
● | Infiom - CEO and Director | |
● | Ultralivetv - President, CEO and Director | |
● | NTN Buzztime, Inc. (AMEX:NTN) - EVP Business Development | |
● | MediaZone - VP Business Development, Content Aggregation and Programming | |
● | KPMG LLP Digital Media Incubator - founder and director | |
● | Mandalay Entertainment - Head Business Development | |
● | Sony Pictures Entertainment Venture Fund - board member | |
● | Producers Guild of America - Board of Directors | |
● | Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - member | |
● | Tim Draper’s Zone Club - Board of Directors member | |
● | Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan’s Digital Coast Roundtable - board member | |
● | MBA - Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA | |
● | BA Mathematics, Minor in Biomedical Engineering, UCSD |
Dennis Hupp
● | Universal Music Group - Vivendi Entertainment / Genius Products 2006–2012 - Senior Vice President, Sales | |
● | The Walt Disney Company - Buena Vista Home Entertainment 1997–2006 - Director & Walmart Team Leader | |
● | BA Speech Communication - Sales and Marketing concentration - Miami University |
Han Cho
● | Barnes & Noble, Inc. 2010-2011 - Senior Manager, Supply Chain Sourcing | |
● | Apple, Inc. 2005-2009 - Manager, Global Supply Chain Management | |
● | Motorola, Inc. 1999-2005 - Strategic Supply Chain Team Lead | |
● | Caterpillar, Inc. 1997-1999 - Design Engineer |
Notes:
● | There are no family relationships between any two members of the current or planned staff of the company |
● | No members of the team have disqualifying criminal records or have filed bankruptcy in the past 5 years |
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Compensation of Directors and Executive Officers
As mentioned earlier in this offering circular, the GoChip team has been enthusiastically operating with little or no compensation since its inception over three years ago. As a result, the three highest paid executives were cumulatively paid $97,465 by consulting contract in 2014, our last complete fiscal year. The company currently has only one director (of a three member board with two vacancies) who is also our founder, CEO and chairman. The company’s total board compensation during its last complete fiscal year, 2014, is zero.
As mentioned elsewhere in this offering circular, the company intends to compensate its team with appropriate signing bonuses and industry competitive compensation going forward following receipt of funds from this offering. As such, the top three executives of the company will be paid cumulatively approximately $750,000 per year with a cumulative total bonus pool of about $350,000 for a combined cash compensation pool of about $1,100,000 for the company’s top three executives on an annual basis.
The company will provide senior level executives with bonus incentive plans that will pay up to approximately 50% of their respective base salary upon attainment of 3-5 very specific objective goals agreed to in writing at the beginning of each fiscal year. The company will have three broad categories of employees: executive level, management level and staff level. Benefits will be consistently applied in each of these three levels with comparable benefits offered at similar levels for other firms with similar personnel and mission in similar geographic range.
The company plans to offer no more than $5,000 cash per quarter for total board of directors compensation. The company will also pay its board of directors members some equity or equity equivalent commensurate with other comparable firms. The company reserves the right to change board of directors compensation at any time, without notice. This will allow management to accommodate possible changes in strategy, competitive compensation and desired additions to the board of directors.
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Security Ownership of Management and Certain Securityholders
John Strisower, the company’s founder, CEO, chairman and primary funding source since inception, whose mailing address is 275 Airpark Boulevard, Suite 100, Chico, CA 95973, is the only beneficial owner of more than 10% of any class of the company’s stock. John Strisower owns approximately 65% of the currently outstanding Class A common stock of the company. There is no other class of stock currently outstanding.
The company’s Class A common stock currently outstanding has 100 votes per share.
The company’s Class B common stock being offered for sale with this offering circular has one vote per share. This is being done specifically so that the current management team will retain tight control of the business even after this current offering is completely sold.
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Interest of Management and Others in Certain Transactions
Other than loans provided by the founder and/or from the founder’s entities (described previously) to the company on the same basis as other lenders, there are no transactions where management has a direct or indirect personal interest.
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The company is hereby offering for sale to the public, 5,000,000 shares of its newly created Class B common stock at a price of $4.00 per share, with a one (1) share minimum and no maximum number of shares, per buyer, up to the remaining amount available for sale without exceeding $20,000,000.
The Class B common stock being offered for sale herein:
I. | has no dividend rights | |
II. | has one vote per share which is subordinate to the Class A common currently outstanding and majority held by the company’s founder/CEO which has 100 votes per share | |
III. | has no liquidation rights | |
IV. | has no preemptive rights | |
V. | has no conversion rights | |
VI. | has no redemption provisions | |
VII. | has no sinking fund provisions | |
VIII. | has no liability to further calls or to assessment by the issuer | |
IX. | has limited control since the company’s Class A common shares have super-voting rights (100 votes per share) vs. the one vote per share of the Class B common and the Class A common is majority owned by the founder/CEO giving him majority control of the company even after the Class B common shares herein are sold out | |
X. | has no restrictions on alienability of the securities being offered | |
XI. | does not have any provision discriminating against any existing or prospective holder of such securities as a result of such securityholder owning a substantial amount of securities | |
XII. | does not have any rights of holders that may be modified otherwise than by a vote of a majority or more of the shares outstanding, voting as a class, and the class has a very small minority voting interest as described above |
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Balance Sheet - Unaudited
As of December 31, 2013
Total | ||||
ASSETS | ||||
Current Assets | ||||
Bank Accounts | 431.38 | |||
Total Current Assets | $ | 431.38 | ||
Fixed Assets | ||||
1410 Computer Equipment and Software | 11,263.58 | |||
1510 Accum Depr - Computer Eq&sftwr | -898.75 | |||
Total Fixed Assets | $ | 10,364.83 | ||
TOTAL ASSETS | $ | 10,796.21 | ||
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY | ||||
Liabilities | ||||
Accounts Payable | ||||
2000 Accounts Payable | 1,507,067.24 | |||
Total Accounts Payable | $ | 1,507,067.24 | ||
Other Current Liabilities | ||||
2210 Notes Payable | 1,782,964.45 | |||
2211 Interest Payable | 211,623.00 | |||
2250 Stockholder Advances | 50,000.00 | |||
25500 Sales Tax Payable | 145.00 | |||
Total Other Current Liabilities | $ | 2,044,732.45 | ||
Total Liabilities | $ | 3,551,799.69 | ||
Equity | ||||
3600 Retained Earnings | -2,063,676.59 | |||
Net Loss | -1,477,326.89 | |||
Total Equity | $ | -3,541,003.48 | ||
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY | $ | 10,796.21 |
2013 Balance Sheet - Unaudited
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Statement of Comprehensive Income - Unaudited
January - December 2013
Total | ||||
Income | ||||
4010 Sales | -5,252.38 | |||
Total Income | $ | -5,252.38 | ||
Cost of Goods Sold | 39,638.46 | |||
Gross Profit | $ | -44,890.84 | ||
Expenses | ||||
6015 Payroll Charge | 112,329.00 | |||
622 Office Expenses | 125,548.98 | |||
6310 Prof Fees - Accounting | 5,000.00 | |||
6320 Prof Fees - Consulting | 772,592.50 | |||
6325 Prof Fees - Legal (IP/Patents) | 13,851.56 | |||
6330 Prof Fees - Legal(Corporate) | 170,955.50 | |||
636 Research & Development | 10,649.57 | |||
645 Telephone | 9,673.60 | |||
648 Travel & Entertainment | 71,913.80 | |||
Total Expenses | $ | 1,292,514.51 | ||
Net Operating Loss | $ | -1,337,405.35 | ||
Other Expenses | ||||
8025 Income Tax - State | 1,050.00 | |||
8029 Interest Expense | 138,871.54 | |||
Total Other Expenses | $ | 139,921.54 | ||
Net Other Income | $ | -139,921.54 | ||
Net Loss | $ | -1,477,326.89 |
2013 Statement of Comprehensive Income - Unaudited
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Statement of Cash Flows - Unaudited
January - December 2013
Total | ||||
OPERATING ACTIVITIES | ||||
Net Loss | -1,477,326.89 | |||
Adjustments to reconcile Net Income to Net Cash provided by operations: | ||||
Accounts Receivable | 7,220.00 | |||
Inventory Asset | 32,000.28 | |||
Accounts Payable | 773,821.44 | |||
Notes Payable | 517,707.44 | |||
Interest Payable - Notes Payable | 138,871.54 | |||
Net Cash provided by operating activities | $ | -7,706.19 | ||
INVESTING ACTIVITIES | ||||
Computer Equipment and Software | 1,683.25 | |||
Net cash provided by investing activities | $ | 1,683.25 | ||
Net cash increase for period | $ | -6,022.94 | ||
Cash at beginning of period | 6,454.32 | |||
Cash at end of period | $ | 431.38 |
2013 Statement of Cash Flows - Unaudited
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Change in Stockholders’ Equity - Unaudited
January - December 2013
Class
A Common Stock ($1 Par) | Retained Earnings | Total
Stockholders’ Equity | ||||||||||
Balance of January 1 | $ | -2,063,676.59 | $ | -2,063,676.59 | ||||||||
Net Income | $ | -1,477,326.89 | $ | -1,477,326.89 | ||||||||
Balance on December 31 | $ | - | $ | -3,541,003.48 | $ | -3,541,003.48 |
2013 Change in Stockholders’ Equity - Unaudited
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2013 Notes to Financial Statements - Unaudited
1. | Statement of Comprehensive Income is reported using accrual method |
2. | The Company’s fiscal year is the calendar year |
3. | Revenue is recognized upon invoicing customer or upon sale if sold online |
4. | Inventory is counted at actual cost on a first-in, first-out basis |
5. | Straight line depreciation is used for property, plant and equipment with five year useful life for current equipment |
6. | Research and development (“R&D”) costs are expensed as incurred. Development costs of computer software to be sold, leased, or otherwise marketed are subject to capitalization beginning when a product’s technological feasibility has been established and ending when a product is available for general release to customers. In most instances, the Company’s products are released soon after technological feasibility has been established. Costs incurred subsequent to achievement of technological feasibility were not significant, and software development costs were expensed as incurred during 2014 and 2013. |
7. | For all periods presented, amounts billed to customers related to shipping and handling are classified as revenue, and the Company’s shipping and handling costs are included in cost of sales. |
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Balance Sheet - Unaudited
As of December 31, 2014
Total | ||||
ASSETS | ||||
Current Assets | ||||
Bank Accounts | 1,332.94 | |||
Total Bank Accounts | $ | 1,332.94 | ||
Total Current Assets | $ | 1,332.94 | ||
Fixed Assets | ||||
1410 Computer Equipment and Software | 5,128.96 | |||
1510 Accum Depreciation | 2,508.70 | |||
Total Fixed Assets | $ | 7,637.66 | ||
TOTAL ASSETS | $ | 8,970.60 | ||
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY | ||||
Liabilities | ||||
Accounts Payable | ||||
2000 Accounts Payable | 1,991,685.71 | |||
Total Accounts Payable | $ | 1,991,685.71 | ||
Other Current Liabilities | ||||
2210 Convertible Notes Payable | 1,197,748.09 | |||
2211 Interest Payable | 152,710.65 | |||
2250 Stockholder Advances | 50,000.00 | |||
25500 Sales Tax Payable | 0.00 | |||
Total Other Current Liabilities | $ | 1,400,458.74 | ||
Total Liabilities | $ | 3,392,144.45 | ||
Equity | ||||
3100 Common Stock | 1,032,600.00 | |||
3600 Retained Earnings | -3,541,003.48 | |||
Net Loss | -874,770.37 | |||
Total Equity | $ | -3,383,173.85 | ||
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY | $ | 8,970.60 |
2014 Balance Sheet - Unaudited
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Statement of Comprehensive Income - Unaudited
January - December 2014
Total | ||||
Income | ||||
4010 Sales | 1,304.90 | |||
Total Income | $ | 1,304.90 | ||
Cost of Goods Sold | 10,545.53 | |||
Gross Profit | $ | -9,240.63 | ||
Expenses | ||||
6035 Advertising & Marketing | 10,026.00 | |||
6090 Depreciation | 1,950.06 | |||
6130 Does and Subscriptions | 1,236.06 | |||
6135 Equipment & Software | 1,857.17 | |||
6200 Licenses and Permits | 8,425.00 | |||
6220 Office Expenses | 103,475.43 | |||
6320 Prof fees - Consulting | 530,866.60 | |||
6325 Prof Fees - Legal (Ip/Patents) | 1,321 00 | |||
6330 Prof Fees - Legal (Corporate) | 9,743.61 | |||
6395 R&D - Product Development | 2,236.51 | |||
6450 Telephone | 7,930.53 | |||
6480 Travel & Entertainment | 54,602.54 | |||
Total Expenses | $ | 733,660.50 | ||
Net Operating Loss | $ | -742,910.22 | ||
Other Income | ||||
7065 Gain/Loss on Disposal of Asset | -1,857.50 | |||
Total Other Income | $ | -1,857.50 | ||
Other Expense | ||||
8025 Income Tax - State | 800.00 | |||
8029 Interest Expense | 129,202.65 | |||
Total Other Expense | $ | 130,002.65 | ||
Net Other Income | $ | -131,860.15 | ||
Net Loss | $ | -874,770.37 |
2014 Statement of Comprehensive Income - Unaudited
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Statement of Cash Flows - Unaudited
January - December 2014
Total | ||||
OPERATING ACTIVITIES | ||||
Net Loss | $ | -874,770.37 | ||
Adjustments to reconcile Net Income to Net Cash provided by operations: | ||||
Accounts Payable | $ | 484,473.47 | ||
Notes Payable | $ | 388,471.29 | ||
Net cash used by operating activities | $ | -1,825.61 | ||
INVESTING ACTIVITIES | ||||
Computer Equipment and Software | $ | 6,134.62 | ||
Accum Depr - Computer Eq&sftwr | $ | -3,407.45 | ||
Net cash provided by investing activities | $ | 2,727.17 | ||
Net cash increase for period | $ | 901.56 | ||
Cash at beginning of period | $ | 431.38 | ||
Cash at end of period | $ | 1,332.94 |
2014 Statement of Cash Flows - Unaudited
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Change in Stockholders’ Equity - Unaudited
January - December 2014
Class
A Common Stock ($1 Par) | Retained Earnings | Total
Stockholders’ Equity | ||||||||||
Balance of January 1 | $ | -3,541,003.48 | $ | -3,541,003.48 | ||||||||
Issued Shares for Converted Notes (Principal + Interest) | $ | 1,032,600.00 | $ | 1,032,600.00 | ||||||||
Net Income | $ | -874,770.37 | $ | -874,770.37 | ||||||||
Balance on December 31 | $ | 1,032,600.00 | $ | -4,415,773.85 | $ | -3,383,173.85 |
2014 Change in Stockholders’ Equity - Unaudited
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2014 Notes to Financial Statements - Unaudited
1. | Statement of Comprehensive Income is reported using accrual method |
2. | The Company’s fiscal year is the calendar year |
3. | Revenue is recognized upon invoicing customer or upon sale if sold online |
4. | Inventory is counted at actual cost on a first-in, first-out basis |
5. | Straight line depreciation is used for property, plant and equipment with five year useful life for current equipment |
6. | Research and development (“R&D”) costs are expensed as incurred. Development costs of computer software to be sold, leased, or otherwise marketed are subject to capitalization beginning when a product’s technological feasibility has been established and ending when a product is available for general release to customers. In most instances, the Company’s products are released soon after technological feasibility has been established. Costs incurred subsequent to achievement of technological feasibility were not significant, and software development costs were expensed as incurred during 2014 and 2013. |
7. | For all periods presented, amounts billed to customers related to shipping and handling are classified as revenue, and the Company’s shipping and handling costs are included in cost of sales. |
8. | All class A common stock sold during the reporting period was due to convertible note holders’ elections to convert from debt to equity, converting all outstanding principal and interest due to class A common shares at $1.00/share |
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Pursuant to the requirements of Regulation A, the issuer certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 1-A and has duly caused this offering statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Chico, State of California, on September 9, 2015.
GoChip Inc. | ||
By: | /s/ John Strisower | |
Name: | John Strisower | |
Title: | Founder, CEO, President, Secretary, Treasurer and Chairman of the Board of Directors |
As the only current Board of Directors member, the only current executive officer and as the sole corporate officer signatory, John Strisower is the only signatory necessary for this offering circular.
A hand signed version of this document will be retained by GoChip Inc. for a period of 5 years pursuant to the Form 1-A process instructions.
Signature | Title | Date | ||
/s/ John Strisower | Founder, CEO, President, Secretary, | September 9, 2015 | ||
John Strisower | Treasurer and Chairman of the Board of Directors |
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3428532 | ||
ENDORSED - FILED | ||
in the office of the Secretary of State | ||
of the State of California | ||
DEC 07 2011 |
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF
FLIXCHIP CORP.
The undersigned incorporator, for the purpose of forming a corporation under the General Corporation Law of the State of California, hereby certifies:
ARTICLE I
The name of the corporation is FlixChip Corp.
ARTICLE II
The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of California other than the banking business, the trust company business or the practice of a profession permitted to be incorporated by the California Corporations Code.
ARTICLE III
The name and address of the Corporation’s initial agent for service of process in the State of California, in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 1502 of the General Corporation Law, is: Corporation Service Company Which Will Do Business In California As CSC-Lawyers Incorporating Service.
ARTICLE IV
The Corporation is authorized to issue common stock. The total number of shares which the corporation is authorized to issue is Thirty Million (30,000,000) shares of common stock.
ARTICLE V
Section 1. The personal liability of the directors of this Corporation for monetary damages shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permissible under California law.
Section 2. This Corporation is authorized to provide indemnification of agents (as defined in Section 317 of the California Corporations Code) through bylaw provisions, agreements with the agents, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise, in excess of the indemnification otherwise permitted by Section 317 of the California Corporations Code, subject only to the limits set forth in Section 204 of the California Corporations Code with respect to actions for breach of duty to this Corporation or its shareholders. This Corporation is further authorized to provide insurance for agents as set forth in Section 317 of the California Corporations Code, provided that, in cases where this Corporation owns all or a portion of the shares of the company issuing the insurance policy, the company and/or the policy must meet one of the two sets of conditions set forth in Section 317, as amended.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed these Articles of Incorporation.
/s/ SaabraJade | |
SaabraJade | |
Sole Incorporator |
I declare that I am the person who executed the foregoing Articles of Incorporation and said instrument is my act and deed.
Executed this 7th day of December, 2011, at Palo Alto, California.
/s/ SaabraJade | |
SaabraJade, Sole Incorporator |
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3428532 | A0772848 | FILED | |
Secretary of State | |||
State of California | |||
JUL 17 2015 |
Certificate of Amendment of Articles of Incorporation
The undersigned certify that:
1. | They are the president and the secretary, respectively, of FLIXCHIP CORP., a California corporation. |
2. | ARTICLE I of the Articles of incorporation of this corporation is amended to read as follows: |
The name of the corporation is GoChip Inc. | |
3. | The foregoing amendment of Articles of Incorporation has been duly approved by the board of directors. |
4. | The foregoing amendment of Articles of Incorporation has been duly approved by the required vote of shareholders in accordance with Section 902, California Corporations Code. The total number of outstanding shares of the corporation is 28,800,801. The number of shares voting in favor of the amendment equaled or exceeded the vote required. The percentage vote required was more than 50%. |
We further declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the matters set forth in this certificate are true and correct of our own knowledge.
DATE: July 15, 2015
/s/ John Strisower | |
(Signature of President) | |
John Strisower | |
President |
/s/ John Strisower | |
(Signature of Secretary) | |
John Strisower | |
Secretary |
Amendment to Articles of Incorporation for Name Change to GoChip Inc.
AMENDED AND RESTATED
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
OF GOCHIP INC.
The undersigned hereby certifies that:
1. He is the Chief Executive Officer, President, Treasurer and Secretary of GoChip Inc., a California corporation (the “Corporation”).
2. The Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation shall be amended and restated to read as follows:
ARTICLE I
The name of the Corporation is GoChip Inc.
ARTICLE II
The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of California other than the banking business, the trust company business or the practice of a profession permitted to be incorporated by the California Corporations Code.
ARTICLE III
The street and mailing address of the Corporation is 275 Airpark Boulevard, Suite 100, Chico, California 95973.
The name and address of the Corporation’s agent for service of process in the State of California, in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 1502 of the General Corporation Law, is: Corporation Service Company, which will do business in California as CSC - Lawyers Incorporating Service.
ARTICLE IV
A. Class and Series of Stock. The total number of shares of capital stock that the Corporation is authorized to issue is forty-five million (45,000,000) shares. The Corporation is authorized to issue only one class of shares to be designated as Common Slock (the “Common Stock”).
The Common Stock shall be divided into two series. The first series shall consist of thirty-five million (35,000,000) shares and is designated Class A Common Stock. The second series shall consist of ten million (10.000,000) shares and is designated Class B Common Stock. Shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding as of the date of filing of these Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation shall be automatically converted into shares of Class A Common Stock on a one-to-one basis, effective as of the date hereof.
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B. Voting. Each holder of shares of Class A Common Stock shall be entitled to one hundred (100) votes for each share of Class A Common Stock held as of the applicable date on any matter that is submitted to a vote or for the consent of the shareholders of the Corporation. Each holder of shares of Class B Common Stock shall be entitled to one (1) vote for each share of Class B Common Stock held as of the applicable date on any matter that is submitted to a vote or for the consent of the shareholders of the Corporation.
ARTICLE V
A. The liability of directors of the Corporation for monetary damages shall be eliminated to the fullest extent permissible under California law.
B. The Corporation is authorized to provide indemnification of agents (as defined in Section 317 of the California Corporations Code) through bylaw provisions, agreements with agents, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise, in excess of the indemnification otherwise permitted by Section 317 of the California Corporations Code, subject only to the applicable limits set forth in Sections 204 and 317 of the California Corporations Code with respect to actions for breach of duty to the Corporation or its shareholders. The Corporation is further authorized to provide insurance for agents as set forth in Section 317 of the California Corporations Code, provided that, in cases where the Corporation owns all or a portion of the shares of the company issuing the insurance policy, the company and/or the policy must meet one of the two sets of conditions set forth in Section 317, as amended.
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3. The foregoing amendment and restatement of the Articles of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended (the “Amendment”), has been duly approved by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.
4. The Amendment has been duly approved by the required vote of the shareholders of the Corporation in accordance with Sections 902 and 903 of the California Corporations Code. The total number of outstanding shares of the Corporation entitled to vote with respect to the Amendment is [24,893,191] shares of Common Stock. The number of shares voting in favor of the Amendment equaled or exceeded the vote required, such required vote being a majority of the total number of outstanding shares of Common Stock.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned declares under penalty of perjury under laws of the State of California that the matters set forth herein are true and correct.
DATE: August 31, 2015 | /s/ John Strisower |
John Strisower | |
Chief Executive Officer, President, | |
Treasurer and Secretary |
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BYLAWS
OF
FLIXCHIP CORP.
ARTICLE I - OFFICES
Section 1. The principal executive office of FlixChip Corp., a California corporation (the “Corporation”) shall be at such place inside or outside the State of California as the Board (the “Board”) may determine from time to time.
Section 2. The Corporation may also have offices at such other places as the Board may from time to time designate, or as the business of the Corporation may require.
ARTICLE II - SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETINGS
Section 1. Annual Meetings. The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Corporation for the election of directors to succeed those whose terms expire and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting shall be held at such place and at such time as may be fixed from time to time by the Board and stated in the notice of the meeting. If the annual meeting of the shareholders be not held as herein prescribed, the election of directors may be held at any meeting thereafter called pursuant to these Bylaws.
Section 2. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the shareholders, for any purpose whatsoever, unless otherwise prescribed by statute, may be called at any time by the Chairman of the Board, the President, or by the Board, or by one or more shareholders holding not less than ten percent of the voting power of the Corporation.
Section 3. Place. All meetings of the shareholders shall be at any place within or without the State of California designated by the Board or by written consent of all the persons entitled to vote thereat, given either before or after the meeting. In the absence of any such designation, shareholders’ meetings shall be held at the principal executive office of the Corporation.
Section 4. Notice. Notice of meetings of the shareholders of the Corporation shall be given in writing to each shareholder entitled to vote, either personally, by electronic transmission by the Corporation, or by first-class mail unless the Corporation has 500 or more shareholders determined as provided by the California Corporations Code (the “Code”) on the record date for the meeting, in which case notice may be sent by third-class mail or other means of written communication, charges prepaid, addressed to the shareholder at his address appearing on the books of the Corporation or given by the shareholder to the Corporation for the purpose of notice. Notice of any such meeting of shareholders shall be sent to each shareholder entitled thereto not less than ten or, if sent by third-class mail, thirty nor more than sixty days before the meeting. Said notice shall state the place, date and hour of the meeting, the means of electronic transmission by and to the Corporation, as defined in Sections 20 and 21 of the Code, or electronic video screen communication, if any, by which shareholders may participate in that meeting, subject to the provisions of Section 600(e) of the Code, and, (1) in the case of special meetings, the general nature of the business to be transacted, and no other business may be transacted, or (2) in the case of annual meetings, those matters which the Board, at the time of the mailing of the notice, intends to present for action by the shareholders, but subject to Section 60l(f) of the Code any proper matter may be presented at the meeting for shareholder action, and (3) in the case of any meeting at which directors are to be elected, the names of the nominees intended at the time of the mailing of the notice to be presented by management for election.
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Section 5. Adjourned Meetings. Any shareholders’ meeting may be adjourned from time to time by the vote of the holders of a majority of the voting shares present at the meeting either in person or by proxy. Notice of any adjourned meeting need not be given unless a meeting is adjourned for forty-five days or more from the date set for the original meeting or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting.
Section 6. Quorum. A majority of the shares entitled to vote, represented in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of the shareholders for the transaction of business. The shareholders present at a duly called or held meeting at which a quorum is present may continue to do business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough shareholders to leave less than a quorum, if any action taken (other than adjournment) is approved by at least a majority of the shares required to constitute a quorum.
In the absence of a quorum, any meeting of shareholders may be adjourned from time to time by the vote of a majority of the shares, the holders of which are either present in person or represented by proxy thereat, but no other business may be transacted, except as provided above.
Section 7. Shareholder Action by Written Consent. Any action which may be taken at any meeting of shareholders may be taken without a meeting and without prior notice, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding shares having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted; provided, however, that (1) unless the consents of all shareholders entitled to vote have been solicited in writing, notice of any shareholder approval without a meeting by less than unanimous written consent shall be given as required by the Code, and (2) directors may not be elected by written consent except by unanimous written consent of all shares entitled to vote for the election of directors or as allowed by the Code.
Any written consent may be revoked by a writing received by the Secretary of the Corporation prior to the time that written consents of the number of shares required to authorize the proposed action have been filed with the Secretary.
Section 8. Waiver of Notice. The transactions of any meeting of shareholders, however called and noticed, and whenever held, shall be as valid as though had at a meeting duly held after regular call and notice, if a quorum be present either in person or by proxy, and if, either before or after the meeting, each of the persons entitled to vote, not present in person or by proxy, signs a written waiver of notice, or a consent to the holding of the meeting, or an approval of the minutes thereof. All such waivers, consents, or approvals shall be filed with the corporate records or made a part of the minutes of the meeting.
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Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting except when the person objects, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened, and except that attendance at a meeting is not a waiver of any right to object to the consideration of matters required by the Code to be included in the notice but not so included, if the objection is expressly made at the meeting.
Section 9. Voting. The voting at all meetings of shareholders need not be by ballot, but any qualified shareholder before the voting begins may demand a stock vote whereupon such stock vote shall be taken by ballot, each of which shall state the name of the shareholder voting and the number of shares voted by such shareholder, and if such ballot be cast by a proxy, it shall also state the name of such proxy.
At any meeting of the shareholders, every shareholder having the right to vote shall be entitled to vote in person, or by proxy appointed in a writing subscribed by such shareholder and bearing a date not more than eleven months prior to said meeting, unless the writing states that it is irrevocable and satisfies Section 705(e) of the Code, in which event it is irrevocable for the period specified in said writing and said Section 705(e).
Section 10. Record Dates. In the event the Board fixes a day for the determination of shareholders of record entitled to vote as provided in Section 1 of Article V of these Bylaws, then, subject to the provisions of the Code, only persons in whose name shares entitled to vote stand on the stock records of the Corporation at the close of business on such day shall be entitled to vote.
If no record date is fixed:
The record date for determining shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders shall be at the close of business on the business day next preceding the day on which notice is given or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the business day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held;
The record date for determining shareholders entitled to give consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board is necessary, shall be the day on which the first written consent is given; and
The record date for determining shareholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto, or the 60th day prior to the date of such other action, whichever is later.
A determination of shareholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of shareholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting unless the Board fixes a new record date for the adjourned meeting, but the Board shall fix a new record date if the meeting is adjourned for more than 45 days from the date set for the original meeting.
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Section 11. Cumulative Voting for Election of Directors. Provided the candidate’s name has been placed in nomination prior to the voting and one or more shareholders has given notice at the meeting prior to the voting of the shareholder’s intent to cumulate the shareholder’s votes, every shareholder entitled to vote at any election for directors shall have the right to cumulate such shareholder’s votes and give one candidate a number of votes equal to the number of directors to be elected multiplied by the number of votes to which the shareholder’s shares are normally entitled, or distribute the shareholder’s votes on the same principle among as many candidates as the shareholder shall think fit. The candidates receiving the highest number of votes of the shares entitled to be voted for them up to the number of directors to be elected by such shares are elected.
ARTICLE III - BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 1. Powers. Subject to any limitations in the Articles of Incorporation or these Bylaws and to any provision of the Code requiring shareholder authorization or approval for a particular action, the business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed and all corporate powers shall be exercised by, or under the direction of, the Board. The Board may delegate the management of the day-to-day operation of the business of the Corporation to a management company or other person provided that the business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed and all corporate powers shall be exercised under the ultimate direction of the Board.
Section 2. Number, Tenure and Qualifications. The number of directors that shall constitute the whole board shall be not more than three nor less than one. The exact number of directors may be fixed from time to time within such limit by a duly adopted resolution of the Board or shareholders. The exact number of directors presently authorized shall. be three until changed within the limits specified above by a duly adopted resolution of the Board or shareholders. Directors need not be shareholders.
Directors shall hold office until the next annual meeting of shareholders and until their respective successors are elected. If any such annual meeting is not held, or the directors are not elected thereat, the directors may be elected at any special meeting of shareholders held for that purpose.
Section 3. Regular Meetings. A regular annual meeting of the Board shall be held without other notice than this Bylaw immediately after, and at the same place as, the annual meeting of shareholders. The Board may provide for other regular meetings from time to time by resolution.
Section 4. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board may be called at any time by the Chairman of the Board, or the President or any Vice President, or the Secretary or any two directors. Written notice of the time and place of all special meetings of the Board shall be delivered personally or by telephone, including a voice messaging system or by electronic transmission by the Corporation to each director at least 48 hours before the meeting, or sent to each director by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at least four days before the meeting. Such notice need not specify the purpose of the meeting. Notice of any meeting of the Board need not be given to any director who signs a waiver of notice, whether before or after the meeting, or who attends the meeting without protesting prior thereto or at its commencement, the lack of notice to such director.
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Section 5. Place of Meetings. Meetings of the Board may be held at any place within or without the State of California, which has been designated in the notice, or if not stated in the notice or there is no notice, the principal executive office of the Corporation or as designated by the resolution duly adopted by the Board.
Section 6. Participation by Telephone. Members of the Board may participate in a meeting through use of conference telephone, electronic video screen communication, or electronic transmission by and to the corporation as permitted by Sections 20 and 21 of the Code. Participation in a meeting through use of conference telephone or electronic video screen communication constitutes presence in person at the meeting as long as all members participating in such meeting can hear one another. Participation in a meeting through electronic transmission by and to the corporation (other than conference telephone and electronic video screen communication) constitutes presence in person at that meeting if both of the following apply: (a) each member participating in the meeting can communicate with all of the other members concurrently, and (b) each member is provided the means of participating in all matters before the Board, including, without limitation, the capacity to propose, or to interpose an objection to, a specific action to be taken by the Corporation.
Section 7. Quorum. A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum at all meetings. In the absence of a quorum a majority of the directors present may adjourn any meeting to another time and place. If a meeting is adjourned for more than 24 hours, notice of any adjournment to another time or place shall be given prior to the time of the reconvened meeting to the directors who were not present at the time of adjournment.
Section 8. Action at Meeting. Every act or decision done or made by a majority of the directors present at a meeting duly held at which a quorum is present is the act of the Board. A meeting at which a quorum is initially present may continue to transact business notwithstanding the withdrawal of directors, if any action taken is approved by at least a majority of the required quorum for such meeting.
Section 9. Waiver of Notice. The transactions of any meeting of the Board, however called and noticed or wherever held, are as valid as though had at a meeting duly held after regular call and notice if a quorum is present and if, either before or after the meeting, each of the directors not present signs a written waiver of notice, a consent to holding the meeting, or an approval of the minutes thereof. All such waivers, consents and approvals shall be filed with the corporate records or made a part of the minutes of the meeting.
Section 10. Action Without Meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken by the Board may be taken without a meeting, if all members of the Board individually or collectively consent in writing to such action. Such written consent or consents shall be filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Board. Such action by written consent shall have the same force and effect as a unanimous vote of such directors.
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Section 11. Removal. The entire Board or any individual director may be removed from office without cause by a vote of shareholders holding a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote at an election of directors; provided, however, that unless the entire Board is removed, no individual director may be removed when the votes cast against removal, or not consenting in writing to such removal, would be sufficient to elect such director if voted cumulatively at an election at which the same total number of votes cast were cast (or, if such action is taken by written consent, all shares entitled to vote were voted) and the entire number of directors authorized at the time of the director’s most recent election were then being elected.
In the event an office of a director is so declared vacant or in case the Board or any one or more directors be so removed, new directors may be elected at the same meeting.
Section 12. Resignations. Any director may resign effective upon giving written notice to the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Secretary or the Board of the Corporation, unless the notice specifies a later time for the effectiveness of such resignation. If the resignation is effective at a future time, a successor may be elected to take office when the resignation becomes effective.
Section 13. Vacancies. Except for a vacancy created by the removal of a director, all vacancies in the Board, whether caused by resignation, death or otherwise, may be filled by a majority of the remaining directors or, if the number of directors then in office is less than a quorum, by (a) the unanimous written consent of the directors then in office, (b) the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office at a meeting held pursuant to notice or waivers of notice complying with Section 307 of the Code, or (c) a sole remaining director, and each director so elected shall hold office until his successor is elected at an annual, regular or special meeting of the shareholders. Vacancies created by the removal of a director may be filled only by approval of the shareholders. The shareholders may elect a director at any time to fill any vacancy not filled by the directors. Any such election by written consent requires the consent of a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote.
Section 14. Compensation. No stated salary shall be paid directors, as such, for their services, but, by resolution of the Board, a fixed sum and expenses of attendance, if any, may be allowed for attendance at each regular or special meeting of such Board; provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor. Members of special or standing committees may be allowed like compensation for attending committee meetings.
Section 15. Committees. The Board may, by resolution adopted by a majority of the authorized number of directors, designate one or more committees, each consisting of two or more directors, to serve at the pleasure of the Board. The Board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent member at any meeting of the committee. The appointment of members or alternate members of a committee requires the vote of a majority of the authorized number of directors. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board, shall have all the authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, except with respect to (a) the approval of any action requiring shareholders’ approval or approval of the outstanding shares; (b) the filling of vacancies on the Board or any committee; (c) the fixing of compensation of directors for serving on the Board or in any committee; (d) the amendment or repeal of Bylaws or adoption of new bylaws; (e) the amendment or repeal of any resolution of the Board which by its express terms is not so amendable or repeatable; (f) a distribution to shareholders, except at a rate or in a periodic amount or within a price range determined by the Board; and (g) the appointment of other committees of the Board or the members thereof.
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ARTICLE IV - OFFICERS
Section 1. Number and Term. The officers of the Corporation shall be a Chairman of the Board, a President, one or more Vice Presidents, a Secretary and a Chief Financial Officer, all of which shall be chosen by the Board. In addition, the Board may appoint such other officers as may be deemed expedient for the proper conduct of the business of the Corporation, each of whom shall have such authority and perform such duties as the Board may from time to time determine. The officers to be appointed by the Board shall be chosen annually at the regular meeting of the Board held after the annual meeting of shareholders and shall serve at the pleasure of the Board. If officers are not chosen at such meeting of the Board, they shall be chosen as soon thereafter as shall be convenient. Each officer shall hold office until his successor shall have been duly chosen or until his removal or resignation.
Section 2. Inability to Act. In the case of absence or inability to act of any officer of the Corporation and of any person herein authorized to act in his place, the Board may from time to time delegate the powers or duties of such officer to any other officer, or any director or other person whom it may select.
Section 3. Removal and Resignation. Any officer chosen by the Board may be removed at any time, with or without cause, by the affirmative vote of a majority of all the members of the Board.
Any officer chosen by the Board may resign at any time by giving written notice of said resignation to the Corporation. Unless a different time is specified therein, such resignation shall be effective upon its receipt by the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Secretary or the Board.
Section 4. Vacancies. A vacancy in any office because of any cause may be filled by the Board for the unexpired portion of the term.
Section 5. Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board shall preside at all meetings of the Board.
Section 6. President. The President shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation unless such title is assigned to another officer of the Corporation; in the absence of a Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board, the President shall preside as the chairman of meetings of the shareholders and the Board; and the President shall have general and active management of the business of the Corporation and shall see that all orders and resolutions of the Board are carried into effect. The President or any Vice President shall execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts requiring a seal, under the seal of the Corporation (if the Corporation has adopted a seal), except where required or permitted by law to be otherwise signed and executed and except where the signing and execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the Board to some other officer or agent of the Corporation.
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Section 7. Vice President. In the absence of the President, or in the event of such officer’s death, disability or refusal to act, the Vice President, or in the event there be more than one Vice President, the Vice Presidents in the order designated at the time of their selection, or in the absence of such designation, then in the order of their selection, shall perform the duties of President, and when so acting, shall have all the powers and be subject to all restrictions upon the President. Each Vice President shall have such powers and discharge such duties as may be assigned from time to time by the President or by the Board.
Section 8. Secretary. The Secretary shall see that notices for all meetings are given in accordance with the provisions of these Bylaws and as required by law, shall keep minutes of all meetings, shall have charge of the seal and the corporate books, and shall make such reports and perform such other duties as are incident to such office, or as are properly required by the President or by the Board.
The Assistant Secretary or the Assistant Secretaries, in the order of their seniority, shall, in the absence or disability of the Secretary, or in the event of such officer’s refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers and discharge such duties as may be assigned from time to time by the President or by the Board.
Section 9. Chief Financial Officer. The Chief Financial Officer may also be designated by the alternate title of “Treasurer.” The Chief Financial Officer shall have the custody of all moneys and securities of the Corporation and shall keep regular books of account. Such officer shall disburse funds of the Corporation in payment of the just demands against the Corporation, or as may be ordered by the Board, taking proper vouchers for such disbursements, and shall render to the Board from time to time as may be required of such officer, an account of all transactions as Chief Financial Officer and of the financial condition of the Corporation. Such officer shall perform all duties incident to such office or that are properly required by the President or by the Board. If required by the Board, the Chief Financial Officer shall give the corporation a bond (which shall be renewed every six years) in such sum and with such surety or sureties as shall be satisfactory to the Board for the faithful performance of the duties of such officer’s office and for the restoration to the corporation, in case of such officer’s death, resignation, retirement or removal from office, of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever kind in such officer’s possession or control belonging to the corporation.
The Assistant Treasurer or the Assistant Treasurers, in the order of their seniority, shall, in the absence or disability of the Chief Financial Officer, or in the event of such officer’s refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Chief Financial Officer, and shall have such powers and discharge such duties as may be assigned from time to time by the President or by the Board.
Section 10. Salaries. The salaries of the officers shall be fixed from time to time by the Board and no officer shall be prevented from receiving such salary by reason of the fact that such officer is also a director of the Corporation.
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Section 11. Officers Holding More Than One Office. Any two or more offices may be held by the same person, but no officer shall execute, acknowledge or verify any instrument in more than one capacity.
Section 12. Approval of Loan to Officers. The Corporation may, upon the approval of the Board alone, make loans or money or property to, or guarantee the obligations of, any officer of the Corporation or its parent or subsidiary, whether or not a director, or adopt an employee benefit plan or plans authorizing such loans or guaranties provided that (i) the Board determines that such a loan or guaranty or plan may reasonably be expected to benefit the Corporation, (ii) the Corporation has outstanding shares held of record by 100 or more persons (determined as provided in Section 605 of the California Corporations Code) on the date of approval by the Board, and (iii) the approval of the Board is by a vote sufficient without counting the vote of any interested director or directors.
ARTICLE V - MISCELLANEOUS
Section 1. Record Date and Closing of Stock Books. The Board may fix a time in the future as a record date for the determination of the shareholders entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting of shareholders or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or distribution, or any allotment of rights, or to exercise rights in respect to any other lawful action. The record date so fixed shall not be more than sixty nor less than ten days prior to the date of the meeting or event for the purposes of which it is fixed. When a record date is so fixed, only shareholders of record at the close of business on that date are entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting or to receive the dividend, distribution, or allotment of rights, or to exercise the rights, as the case may be, notwithstanding any transfer of any shares on the books of the Corporation after the record date.
The Board may close the books of the Corporation against transfers of shares during the whole or any part of a period of not more than sixty days prior to the date of a shareholders’ meeting, the date when the right to any dividend, distribution, or allotment of rights vests, or the effective date of any change, conversion or exchange of shares.
Section 2. Certificates. Certificates of stock shall be issued in numerical order and each shareholder shall be entitled to a certificate signed in the name of the Corporation by the Chairman of the Board or the President or a Vice President, and the Chief Financial Officer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, certifying to the number of shares owned by such shareholder. Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be facsimile. Prior to the due presentment for registration of transfer in the stock transfer book of the Corporation, the registered owner shall be treated as the person exclusively entitled to vote, to receive notifications and otherwise to exercise all the rights and powers of an owner, except as expressly provided otherwise by the laws of the State of California.
Section 3. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall end on December 31 of each year.
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Section 4. Annual Reports. The Annual Report to shareholders, described in the Code, is expressly waived and dispensed with until such time as the Corporation has more than I 00 shareholders.
Section 5. Amendments. Bylaws may be adopted, amended, or repealed by the vote or the written consent of shareholders entitled to exercise a majority of the voting power of the Corporation. Subject to the right of shareholders to adopt, amend, or repeal Bylaws, Bylaws may be adopted, amended, or repealed by the Board.
Section 6. Indemnification of Corporate Agents. The Corporation shall indemnify each of its agents against expenses, judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts, actually and reasonably incurred by such person by reason of such person’s having been made or having been threatened to be made a party to a proceeding to the fullest extent permissible under the Code and the Corporation shall advance the expenses reasonably expected to be incurred by such agent in defending any such proceeding upon receipt of the undertaking required by subdivision (f) of Section 317 of the Code. The terms “agent,” “proceeding” and “expenses” made in this section shall have the same meaning as such terms in said Section 317.
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CERTIFICATE OF SECRETARY OF
FLIXCIDP CORP.
The undersigned, John Strisower, Secretary of FlixChip Corp. (the “Corporation”), a California corporation, hereby certifies that the attached document is a true and complete copy of the Bylaws of the Corporation as in effect on the date hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this certificate as of this day of February 2012.
/s/ John Strisower | |
John Strisower, Secretary |
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UNANIMOUS WRITTEN CONSENT
OF
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF
GOCHIP INC.
August 31, 2015
The undersigned, constituting the entire Board of Directors (the “Board”) of GoChip Inc.. a California corporation (the “Company”), in accordance with Section 307(b) of the California Corporations Code. without the formality of convening a meeting, do hereby consent to and adopt the following resolutions. It is the intent of the undersigned that this Unanimous Written Consent of the Board of Directors (this “Written Consent”) be executed in lieu of a special meeting of the Board, which consent shall be filed by the Secretary of the Company with the minutes of the meetings of the Board.
Approval of Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation
WHEREAS, the Board has determined it to be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders to amend and restate the Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as amended, pursuant to the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Amended Articles”), in order to. among other things, (i) increase the number of authorized shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Common Stock”) to forty-five million (45,000,000) shares and (ii) designate thirty-five million (35,000,000) shares of Common Stock as “Class A Common Stock” and ten million (10,000,000) shares of Common Stock as “Class B Common Stock,” each with voting rights as set forth in the Amended Articles.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Amended Articles be, and hereby are, authorized and approved, together with such changes thereto as may be approved by the officers of the Company, the execution thereof by such officers to be conclusive evidence of approval of any such changes.
RESOLVED FURTHER, that (i) the Board hereby recommends that the shareholders of the Company (the “Shareholders”) approve the Amended Articles, (ii) the officers of the Company be. and each of them hereby is, authorized and directed, for and on behalf of the Company, to submit the Amended Articles to the Shareholders and solicit their approval thereof and (iii) upon obtaining such approval of the Shareholders, the officers of the Company, be, and each of them hereby is, authorized and directed, for and on behalf of the Company, to take any and all such action as any such officer may deem necessary or appropriate in order to cause the effectiveness of the Amended Articles including, without limitation, the filing thereof with the Secretary of State of the State of California.
Issuance of Class B Shares under Regulation A
WHEREAS, the Board has determined it to be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders to offer and sell up to 5,000,000 shares of the Class B Common Stock (the “Offering”) pursuant to the Regulation A Offering Statement on Form 1-A (File No. 024-10463), as amended, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Offering Statement”).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Offering Statement, together with any and all exhibits, schedules, documents and agreements attached or ancillary thereto and any and all transactions contemplated by any of the same, including, without limitation, the Offering, be, and hereby are, approved and adopted, and that the officers of the Company be, and each of them hereby is, authorized and directed, for and on behalf of the Company, to execute the Offering Statement and file it with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, together with such modifications thereto as any of such officers may approve (such approval to be evidenced by the execution of the Offering Statement on behalf of the Company), and to execute, deliver and file any and all documents and instruments related to or contemplated by the Offering Statement, and to take any and all such other actions in connection therewith as any of them shall deem necessary or advisable to effect the Offering.
RESOLVED FURTHER, that the officers of the Company be, and each of them hereby is. authorized and directed, for and on behalf of the Company, to take any and all other actions as may be necessary or appropriate, in the judgment of the officers, to consummate any and all of the transactions contemplated by the Offering Statement.
Omnibus Resolutions
RESOLVED, that any and all actions heretofore or hereafter taken by the officers or directors of the Company within the terms of any of the foregoing resolutions are hereby ratified and confirmed as the acts and deeds of the Company.
RESOLVED FURTHER, that each of the officers and directors of the Company is hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver any and all documents and to take such other action as he or she deems necessary, advisable, or appropriate to carry out the purposes and intent, but within the limitations, of the foregoing resolutions, including all filings required to be made with the Secretary of State of the State of California, the execution, delivery or taking of such actions to be conclusive evidence that the same have been authorized by these resolutions.
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This Written. Consent may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Executed as of the date first written above.
/s/ John Strisower | |
John Strisower | |
/s/ Paul Wolfe | |
Paul Wolfe |
EXHIBIT A
AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
EXHIBIT B
OFFERING STATEMENT
WRITTEN CONSENT
OF
THE SOLE DIRECTOR
OF
GOCHIP INC.
August 31, 2015
The undersigned, constituting the sole member (the “Director”) of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of GoChip Inc., a California corporation (the “Company”), in accordance with Section 307(b) of the California Corporations Code (as amended, the “CCC”) and the Bylaws of the Company (the “Bylaws”), without the formality of convening a meeting, does hereby consent to and adopt the following resolutions. It is the intent of the undersigned that this Written Consent of the Sole Director be executed in lieu of a special meeting of the Board, which consent shall be filed by the Secretary of the Company with the minutes of the meetings of the Board.
Appointment of Director
WHEREAS, pursuant to Article III, Section 2 of the Bylaws, the number of authorized directors on the Board is three (3);
WHEREAS, two (2) vacancies currently exist on the Board;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 305(a) of the CCC and Article III, Section 13 of the Bylaws, if the number of directors is less than a quorum, and except for a vacancy created by the removal of a director, vacancies on the Board may be filled a sole remaining director; and
WHEREAS, the Director has determined it to be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders to appoint Paul Wolfe to the Board.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Paul Wolfe is hereby appointed to serve as a director on the Board until his resignation or his successor is duly elected and qualified.
Omnibus Resolutions
RESOLVED, that any and all actions heretofore or hereafter taken by the officers or directors of the Company within the terms of any of the foregoing resolutions are hereby ratified and confirmed as the acts and deeds of the Company.
RESOLVED FURTHER, that each of the officers and directors of the Company is hereby authorized and directed to execute and deliver any and all documents and to take such other action as he or she deems necessary, advisable, or appropriate to carry out the purposes and intent, but within the limitations, of the foregoing resolutions, the execution, delivery or taking of such actions to be conclusive evidence that the same have been authorized by these resolutions.
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Executed as of the date first written above.
/s/ John Strisower | |
John Strisower |
WRITTEN CONSENT
OF
THE SHAREHOLDERS
OF
GOCHIP INC.
The undersigned shareholders of GoChip Inc., a California corporation (the “Company”), pursuant to Section 603 of the California Corporations Code, do, by this writing, consent to the following actions and adopt the following, resolutions without a meeting in respect of all of shares of capital stock of the Company owned by each such shareholder:
Approval of Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company has determined it to be in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders to amend and restate the Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as amended, pursuant to the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Amended Articles”), in order to, among other things, (i) increase the number of authorized shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Common Stock”) to forty-five million (45,000,000) shares and (ii) designate thirty-five million (35,000,000) shares of Common Stock as “Class A Common Stock” and ten million (10,000,000) shares of Common Stock as “Class B Common Stock,” each with voting rights as set forth in the Amended Articles.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Amended Articles be, and hereby are, authorized and approved, together with such changes thereto as may be approved by the officers of the Company, the execution thereof by such officers to be conclusive evidence of approval of any such changes.
RESOLVED FURTHER, that the officers of the Company be. and each of them hereby is, authorized and empowered, for and on behalf of the Company, to take any and all such action as any such officer may deem necessary or appropriate in order to cause the effectiveness of the Amended Articles including, without limitation, the filing thereof with the Secretary of State of the State of California.
Omnibus Resolution
RESOLVED, that each officer and any director of the Company, each with the full power to act alone, be, and each hereby is, authorized, directed and empowered, in the name and on behalf of the Company, to carry out and fully perform the terms and provisions of the foregoing resolutions, and to execute, deliver and, where called for, affix the seal of the Company to any required consents, agreements, certificates, instruments and other documents and to make all such payments to carry into effect the foregoing resolutions, ail such action heretofore taken being hereby ratified, confirmed and approved as the acts and deeds of the Company.
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The undersigned shareholder is signing this consent with respect to all shares of the Company’s capital stock held by such shareholder.
This consent shall have the same force and effect as the vote of the undersigned shareholder, shall be filed in the minute book of the Company and shall become a part of the records of the Company.
SHAREHOLDER: | ||
By: | /s/ John Strisower | |
Name: | John Strisower | |
Title: | Founder/CEO | |
Dated: | August 31, 2015 |
EXHIBIT A
AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
DLA Piper llp (us) | |
2000 University Avenue | |
East Palo Alto, California 94303-2214 | |
www.dlapiper.com | |
T 650.833.2000 | |
F 650.833.2001 |
September 8, 2015
GoChip Inc.
275 Airpark Boulevard, Suite 100
Chico, California 95973
Re: Regulation A Offering Statement on Form 1-A (Offering File No. 024-10463)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as counsel to GoChip Inc., a California corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the proposed issuance and sale of those certain shares (the “Offering”) of the Company’s newly issued Class B Common Stock (the “Shares”), as set forth in the Company’s Regulation A offering statement (Offering File No. 024-10463) on Form 1-A (as amended and supplemented from time to time, the “Offering Statement”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”). Our representation of the Company in connection with the Offering has been limited solely to the rendering of this legal opinion.
This opinion is being furnished in accordance with the requirements of Item 17, Section 12 of Form 1-A.
As the basis for the opinions hereinafter expressed, we have examined: (i) originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified, of (a) the Offering Statement; (b) the Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as amended to date; (c) the Bylaws of the Company; (d) certain resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Company; (e) certain resolutions of the shareholders of the Company; and (f) such other instruments and documents as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purposes of this opinion; and (ii) such statutes, including the California General Corporation Law, and regulations as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purposes of this opinion. We have not independently verified any factual matter relating to this opinion.
We express no opinion other than as to the federal laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of California.
On the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares, when issued, sold and delivered in accordance with pursuant to the terms of the Offering Statement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
We consent to the use of this opinion as an exhibit to the Offering Statement.
Very truly yours, | |
/s/ DLA Piper LLP (US) | |
DLA Piper LLP (US) |
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