boy, Edwin, you and high.hopes are a real trip. giving shares out to posters? c'mon, IPO shares are serious currency, you can't just hand 'em out like candy.
if you're interested in the idea, you can email DVIN. Better yet, this is the kind of thing to email SI about. Why? Because SI is a dying and mismanaged community (don't get me started), so they have much more at stake here with such a proposition.
funny idea, kinda like throwing bloody meat into a pool of sharks. though personally, i would be quick to resign my job before even considering accepting shares as an incentive to post, no way. it would be an incentive for me to stop posting. though i can see why you guys are enthusiastic about the idea. i don't know about divine, but this is the kind of thing I can imagine idealab! doing for their IPO, knowing that bill gross character.
by the way, this is a fun board. as many of you know (some of you seem to be transient board members like me) i like to post a lot to a community of maybe 10 or less posters about a stock that i believe will rock the world. then it goes public, the boards are swamped with daytraders who are flipping IPO allocations and posting with lack of insight, and then i move on. good to see glenn petersen has cleared a path for me on the sequoia software board, my nomad self will squat a homestead for myself there soon...
- Netconductor.com, charter member of the IPO-disenfranchised
>>edwin fujinaka wrote: (and high.hopes supported)
I think someone ought to mention this SI Board to the Company and suggest that they earmark some shares to be directed to the people who post to a topic before the IPO. This would create a buzz on these boards and you would see all sorts of pre IPO boards with a lot of commentary very early. That would be a PR bombshell. George, how about that as a suggestion to Filipowski? How about 100 shares for each nontrivial post? |
