X-Message-Number: 12481 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:27:10 -0700 (PDT) From: diana singh <> Subject: IPO/Money Hi everyone, I concur with John about making an IPO for a company like 21CM. I urge the directors of these companies who are in the forefront of cryonics research to try and list their shares on the stock exchanges. Investors are known these days to lap up hitech stock and some of the companies have market cap 10 to 20 times their entire turnover. Here in India in the last few days three IT companies have gone public and were over subscribed to the tune of upto 65 times! One company Huges software systems ltd got $1.3 billion when it wanted to collect only $60 million in its IPO. If this is the scene here in India I can imagine what possibilities exist for any hitech venture in the US. Mike Darwin wrote; <Money is all well and good. It is precious, damn hard to come by, and absolutely essential. But it CANNOT, IT ABSOLUTELY CANNOT buy the kind of effort that has been going on here for the past few years.> Why should you let go of an opportunity to collect a few million dollars from people who are willing to give it to you? It will help you get the benefit of more employees , equipment, experiments, and exposure all of which are required to succeed in any endeavour. Ayn Rand has said; " Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain not their loss - the recognition that they are not beasts of burden , born to carry the weight of your misery - that you must offer them values , not wounds- that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods". Death is a suffering which probably can be overcome by cryonics and the products of new Biotech firms like 21CM... Gurvinder ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12481