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Technology Stocks : George Gilder - Forbes ASAP -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MikeM54321 who wrote (5072)	10/21/2000 12:16:09 AM
From: Gmoney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5853

"advertises that his subscribers should leave the arduous task of understanding technology to him?"" Here is the link from the Gilder website and the text where he tells readers to let his staff figure out the "complex world of advanced technologies". Pay particular attention to the last paragraph. gildertech.com >>>> It's enough to make you sick. Ordinary investors just like you—and today, their $20,000 investments in Microsoft and Intel are worth $10 million and $15 million, respectively. What set these people apart from everyone else? Very simply, they knew that a revolution was at hand. Missed out? Well, here's another chance... and it's even BIGGER! Hello, I'm George Gilder. Ten years ago I wrote a book called Microcosm in which I predicted the coming computer revolution. This technological miracle, driven by the microchip, has since succeeded beyond even my wildest dreams. But today I'm writing to alert you of the new technology revolution already on your doorstep—a revolution so big that it will reduce the previous era's $400 billion computer revolution to a historical footnote! As is always the case during revolutionary change, fortunes will be made and fortunes will be lost. Some companies you never heard of before will soar to meteoric heights, while many of today's greatest names will fall into decline. Do you know which company will be the next Intel?... the next Microsoft? The difficulty with most investors is identifying tomorrow's winning companies in their infancy, when their shares are cheap. Take Microsoft, for instance. Even IBM was clueless about how big it would become (otherwise it would have grabbed this multibillion dollar business for itself). When you get your hands on a company like this, you can literally multiply your wealth 10 to 100 times. Get a half dozen companies like this, and you'll never look back. But how can you recognize them early enough to make your fortune? There is a way. And I can help. I am a scientist, an engineer, a journalist, and a passionate follower of technology. I am also a founder of and contributor to FORBES ASAP. As editor of the Gilder Technology Report, my focus is the future and the companies whose ascendant technologies will bring it about. By now you must be wondering: What is this emerging technology? Why will it supplant the old one? How can it make me rich? To answer those questions, I have prepared 6 SPECIAL reports. In them I explain in simple terms the coming bandwidth revolution and the steps to safely pursue fortune-making profits in tomorrow's biggest technology winners! And hereÕs a nice bonus: I also explain my choices for the next "Intel" and "Microsoft." But before you read these reports, I'd like to talk to you about being in the right place at the right time. You didn't buy Microsoft because you didn't know Few investors ever understand that they are in the right place at the right time. For example, you were probably investing in 1986 when Microsoft went public. So, why didn't you buy the stock? Every dollar invested back then is worth $500 today. You didn't buy Microsoft because you didn't know. And here's my point: it is not enough to be in the right place at the right time, unless you also understand that you are there! Don't worry about it. It's not your job to understand the significance of "place and time" in the complex world of advanced technologies. This is highly specialized work, and my staff and I are trained and practiced in it. And that's why I want you to read my special reports, and also to subscribe to the Gilder Technology Report. <<<< I am a former 2 year subscriber and I think it is indisputable that Gilder's stock picks and endorsements of technologies has gotten more and more bizarre and strained. I ended my subscription after reading the magazine article where Gilder revealed that he wrote about XLA after a chance meeting with the CEO in an airport I believe. Also his recent email asking readers to "help him" pick the next telecosm companies for only $500 with limited seating insulted anyone with any degree of intelligence. George Gilder wants to have it both ways. He constantly advertises that he can make his reader rich but then hides behind the disclaimer that he is picking paradigm technologies and not touting stocks. Also Gilder seemingly promotes and overstates the prospects of companies such as Global Crossing because of personal friendships, in this instance Gary Winnick. He has repeated this pattern with National Semiconductor and others. I happen to think these are good companies but the reporting was far from unbiased in my opinion. Finally during my membership I wrote several times to the Gilder Group asking them to make a full disclosure of the various equities they write about and when they make either make a buy or sell as many others do, such as Jim Jubak etc.. I never received an answer. Gary