Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike Buckley who wrote (35191)	11/22/2000 8:50:33 PM
From: diver913	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Giving thanks to this thread This month marks the one-year anniversary since my husband and I began reading this thread. We've read every post since mid-Nov 99 and many that came before. I'm grateful to Bruce Brown, who told me about this thread when I was taking the first online Rule Maker's course at TMF. He also recommended that I read The Gorilla Game. A simple suggestion that has had life-changing impact on our investment strategy! During the past year, we've come to know and appreciate the posters on the thread. I'd like to thank each of you for the generous sharing of your experience, technical expertise, investing wisdom, and wonderful humor. Someone recently posted that you get more from the thread when you actively participate. In the past, I haven't felt "qualified" to contribute. I've now read all 4 Geoffrey Moore books plus The Innovator's Dilemma, and have spent many hours studying potential G&K candidates as well as certified gorillas, I'm ready to plunge in. It's time to give back to this thread because we've benefited richly from the wide range of discussions that go far beyond just analyzing companies. Even though our portfolio returns look rather pitiful right now, we're confident and unshaken. We KNOW the strength of the companies we've invested in and we're following the rules of the game (MOST of the time!). The people on this thread have provided wonderful encouragement and support to us - and, I'm sure, to many, many others who lurk here. You are truly a unique, special group and we are most thankful to have found you! And Uncle Frank, thank YOU for starting this thread and maintaining the high standards that set it apart from every other thread that I've encountered - anywhere on the Internet.