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To: nealm who wrote (5194)	11/16/1998 6:03:00 PM
From: Tmoore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

Isn't COMDEX held in Vegas every year? Tmoore

To: nealm who wrote (5194)	11/16/1998 6:10:00 PM
From: lws	Respond to of 27311

Everyone, Vis Comdex and releasing a press release: Suppose one were a small company with a product to introduce at Comdex (like Valence?). What would be your estimates of the optimal time within the general uproar of Comdex to make a press release announcing what you had, where it was in town, and so on? My own sense of when would be perhaps Tuesday late or Wednesday early -- well enough after the opening so that the elephants like MSFT, HWP, SUNW and INTC are thoroughly reported, and the reporters are free to look elsewhere. Especially if I had a good, sexy product, I'd try to catch the news media just when it was ready for something else at this show -- some other great new product they can report. It seems to me that would be later Tuesday. Of course this is just musing about the problems of being a small vendor at Comdex. How do you get out the word in this sea of people spread all over the city? Whether Valence is in this situation right now, only time can tell (but not much time!). Who knows. But regardless, the general problem is one of those things that makes Comdex interesting. Any thoughts, anyone, on how these things are done at Comdex? How they could be done or ought to be done? lws

To: nealm who wrote (5194)	11/16/1998 6:13:00 PM
From: jean1057	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 27311

well to speculate a bit more...maybe they have already a contract and there is no need to show up at the Comdex, as they have sold out the production already...(please do not take this post too seriously, it is just imagination, wild speculation on my part)...but to comfort you a bit more...I did not find ULBI on the list of exibitors either...and last but not least, maybe Lev just wants to save us, the shareholders, some money..he,he,, NO HYPING INTENDED , it is just a bit blablabla...until we get the contract announcement..........and ZEEV I still believe if we get a contract announcement the next 6 weeks, we will end the year with Valence at $ 20$........but this is the big IF....

To: nealm who wrote (5194)	11/16/1998 8:43:00 PM
From: mooter775	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27311

Valence need not rent a booth space at Comdex to meet OEMs. It can do it at a suite in one of the nearby hotels, which I expect is the case.

To: nealm who wrote (5194)	11/16/1998 9:45:00 PM
From: William F. Bentley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27311

COMDEX is a CONSUMER electronics show, and a VERY expensive show to attend. VLNC's critical target market isn't consumers (you aren't going to be buying their batteries off of J-hooks at Walmart) or the distributors of consumer electronics (the other big attendee group), its the OEMs trying to sell the products shown at COMDEX. Those OEMs don't want to spend their time at the show talking to suppliers, they want to talk to their customers. It is a target poor environment for OEM suppliers. Some do go just for the presence and name recognition, but it is poor bang for the trade show buck. There are other much smaller and cheaper tradeshows that concentrate OEM design engineers - who, along with their marketeers, are the people VLNC really needs to sell on a new technology.