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Subject:RE: Change is inevitable, but the timing sucks From:Maggie Secara <MSecara -at- bizbuyer -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 11 Dec 2000 10:00:18 -0800
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From: puff -at- guild -dot- net [mailto:puff -at- guild -dot- net]
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 5:21 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: Maggie Secara; bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com
Subject: Re: Change is inevitable, but the timing sucks
> puff -at- guild -dot- net wrote:
> > As far as what the issues may have been, the most likely thing is
> > that the company plans they made were predicated on a sequence of
> > funding rounds which were likely (at the time) but which have become a
> > lot trickier since the market tanked.
Bruce Byfield wrote:
> That's a strong possibility, and your summary of how venture capital
> funding and the stock market works is a very accurate one. But,
> another reason may simply be that the dot.com mania saw a lot of
> ideas being marketed that ordinarily wouldn't be taken seriously.
Well, sure, but I'm assuming based on Maggie's "Most of the dire
warnings I was given did not apply in this case" that this company was
not one of those silly ideas.
The company name is in my sig line. Check out their web site (which is is
still up and running since our exac t future is not certain) and see what
you think.
> And job security is a myth, no matter where you go. When you end in
> the wrong place, all you can really do is curse and move on.
Ain't it the truth.
Maggie
Maggie Secara
The Technical Writer
www.BizBuyer.com
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