PUBLIC OFFERINGS
If you're lucky enough to have some highly sophisticated "stock market" types in your bullpen, then by all means, go ahead and laugh, laugh, at the rest of us who have to beg for our money to make movies.
A penny stock offering can generate $500,000 to $5,000,000 within a few months from it's introduction, if the market maker is a substantial player.
If you become a principal player in a public company, you'll have so many business matters occupying you that sometimes you'll wonder if you can ever make a movie with the money that's being laid at your disposal, especially if you're the CEO!
You'll get calls from shareholders, stock brokers, SEC attorneys, accountants, all asking you about the company, "What are your assets, liabilities, are you working on something now" -- when are you going to find the time to make movies? Your whole personality changes! You're no longer a film maker, an artist; your a CEO!
Still, if you can hack it, do it, it's another experience, you can make a movie about it! In fact I wrote a script about it. You want to buy it? "No way!"
Good answer, there's hope for you!