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To: Cameron Lang who wrote (38560)	1/25/1999 12:36:00 AM
From: Bob Strickland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Carnac, since we were on the David Letterman theme... Top ten conference call blunders that the C-Cube management team may want to avoid in the future... 10. Drop "market saturation" from the vocabulary of anyone attending a confernce call with analysts. 9. Never surprise analysts with an acquistion and try to avoid the details unless it's a knock-out deal. 8. Get the Semiconductor president to stop mumbling things about greater acceptance of software decoding. 7. Let the CFO do more than read from a piece of paper and pretend he's not the whipping boy of the CEO. 6. Having secret conferences with Andy Chen weeks before the call to reveal the true state of affairs. 5. Stop calling Dow Jones with stories of "being confused" after the stock TANKS. Shows bad character for the next conference call. 4. Not opening fast food joints in China with the $200 million in the bank. A fast food meal will produce more revenue and better margins per unit than those VCD chips that are selling for "a dime a dozen." 3. Avoid being one of the top two biggest losers on the NASDAQ if at all possible. Shows bad character for the next conference call. 2. If stating a product is a "homerun," provide more detail on when and how many. 1. Not considering Andy Chen for a spot on the Board of Directors. "And so much more..."