Stock support and compliance costs are best arguments against going public. You must convert these costs into a strong share price. You must use your strong share price to buy profitable assets for your company. The profitable assets must improve your bottomline. If you don't use your stock as money to build your company, your long term shareholders will lose their investment in your company. You'll fail.

If you believe that your share price reflects merits of your company, don't go public. Your share price will languish for years as you await some Fundamentalist writer to discover value in your company. Meanwhile pragmatic CEO builds value by using their strong share price to buy profitable assets. It can take twenty years to create a hundred million dollar private company. It can take 20 months for a public company to buy for stock a hundred million dollar public company. The option is your company can earn money, pay taxes, reinvest and grow. Or, you can go public, print your own money called stock, and use your strong share price to buy assets and become a hundred million dollar company. Your decision involves your willingness to spend money to ensure a strong share price.

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If cyber-hypsters are working two P&Ds, they can magnify their effectiveness. Let's say, second P&D is about to be pumped (promoted upward). The cyber-hypster will post a notice at first Board saying that P&D #2 is a great buy. They just bought say 10,000 shares of it. Few P&D #1 pigeons will buy P&D#2 stock. However, whatever P&D#2 stock buying results helps P&D#2 stock promotion. The real benefit is that cyber-hypster can report that his P&D#2 stock soared and he made money. This gives him added credibility at P&D#1 website.

The pattern is 1-3 pumps with a rearguard action to keep share from collapsing. Most of these P&D groups have several of these stocks in states of development. For example Teflon Tony and Cyberboys at FantasyLand are doing a rearguard action on TMMI while planning to pump NAPH. They have a half dozen more deals in various stages of development or decomposition. They are lining up more deals.

It's my belief that Net will be primary method of moving share prices within next 15 years. Today, effectiveness of cyber-hype is overrated as are many things involved with Internet. However, when you can SELL stock on Net, cyber-hypsters have developed system to sell it to pigeons.

I think there is a better way to go public and create a strong share price. I think you can walk away with a fortune as an insider. I think everyone can win. It's one reason that I publish EFS. However, I'm currently battling "Dark Side of Force." Thus, focus in this issue on sizzle rather than steak.

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