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Technology Stocks : InfoSpace (INSP): Where GNET went! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Technologyguy who wrote (2441)	3/25/1999 1:31:00 PM
From: Offshore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28311

Re: it has to do with intellectual property (like Metacrawler, brand and customer loyalty, all of which are far more difficult to build than you are saying and require far more than PCs and press releases. You just proved my point. Adding 100 PC's costs $ 1,000,000 at most, and each press release costs about $ 5K for a national release. At 500 press releases, it would cost a whopping 3.5 million total. There is a book I read that is not on my shelf right now, but it was written by a guy who had his web company, burned though a ton of cash, and ended up with nothing. It came out about 1 year ago. Excellent read for anyone who invests in net stocks. In fact, it was caled Burn Rate I think.