Tom Taulli
Tom Taulli
bit takes test waters
Sometimes it takes a McDonald's or a Wendy's to test the waters a little bit and see where it goes.
critical potential stop
This is a critical IPO. If it doesn't do well it will probably put a stop to a potential nanotech IPO trend,
confidence information management road says whether
A lot of times with road shows, it's not what's being said, but how management says it. Will you get information that's not in the prospectus? Probably not, but you'll get a better idea of who the management is and whether you have confidence in them.
There is no way to look at it as anything but frothy, to say the least.
easy volatile
This is a volatile area. For long-term investors, it's never an easy place to make money.
demand fast sell strength
They probably want to sell into strength. If there's enough demand to get it done, they'll want to get it done as fast as possible,
appetite chains experiment huge types
This is something that the huge chains are going to experiment with, just to see if ... there is an appetite for these types of deals.
dice domain good hopefully name raised
Back in 1998 and 1999, you got a domain name that sounded cool, raised a lot of money, rolled the dice and hopefully something good would come out of it.
company couple crippled public seen
As a public investor, if you've seen a company do a couple of dividend recapitalizations, be on warning. You may be getting a company that's crippled with debt.
amount encourages gets hand invest marketing order search start stay tremendous whenever
In order for them to stay competitive, they'll have to invest a tremendous amount in marketing because we have on one hand Yahoo! getting into it, and whenever Yahoo! gets into a market it encourages everyone else to get into it. All other search engines, in my opinion, will start to come into this space.
If she were gone, I don't think it would be a big deal.
exchange markets raising seats seen trouble
I don't think (the NYSE will) have any trouble raising money. The markets are anticipating this already. We've seen the seats on the exchange skyrocket.
options possible themselves
They want to give themselves as many options as possible for liquidity.
business might seems
It seems to me this is a big business that might do well