| To: TFF who wrote (130) | 8/24/1999 8:10:00 PM | | From: LTK007 | | | |
<<TOMORROW IS IMAA DAY...YAHOOOO!
by: tunasmellsfunny>>
(message from Yahoo board--is this good news for the longs?max90) << 2972 of 2977
"THE PIGS" put IMAA on their buy list....if their past picks are any indication ....this one should scream!
happy trading all!
check it out
profitpigs.com >> |
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| To: agent99 who wrote (97) | 8/24/1999 8:55:00 PM | | From: TFF | | | |
Q&A with David Wetherell(CMGI CEO) from Forbes
Through either CMGI or its venture arm @Ventures, Wetherell plans to make at least four new investments every month.
Wetherell says that over the next 12 months he plans to take another 12 to 20 companies public. The more companies that go public, the more money CMGI has in its war chest and the more stock it has to make acquisitions with. Among the companies that could go public are Raging Bull, Medical Village, AdSmart, Furniture.com, NaviNet, NaviSite, advoco.com and CarParts.com.
This may be a bit ambitious, though, even for Wetherell. While few would dispute that he is readying a number of CMGI's investments for IPOs, it remains to be seen if he can successfully oversee so many offerings in such a short period. Another concern is that if the market's appetite for Internet stocks continues to dwindle, he may not be able to place them all.
But even if he places only a third of his estimated amount, CMGI could still pull in billions of dollars with which to fund more investments and reward his investors. What is even more intriguing is that Wetherell's grand strategy is to create his version of a keiretsu, a universe of interlocking companies that supply their services not only to other CMGI companies but also to companies outside the CMGI family.
For example, such CMGI properties as Furniture.com or Productopia, among others, will be used to enhance AltaVista's and Planet Direct's e-commerce offerings. AdSmart, an ad management technology provider, and Engage, its Internet profiling company, will be enlisted to target the individual tastes of visitors to his portal sites.
On top of that, he will also apply the various CMGI properties to his newest and most secretive project, called iCast, which he says he wants to grow into the "largest entertainment company in the world."
Hubris? Guts? Is he building the most comprehensive and diverse collection of Internet stocks, or is it a Ponzi scheme? It's hard to say at this early stage whether Wetherell will be able to continue to replicate the phenomenal success he enjoyed in the first half of this year or whether his whole empire will collapse like a house of cards. The accelerated speed at which Wetherell and CMGI are now moving would have been unthinkable a year ago, and he now has more money than he probably once would have thought possible. A lot of people know who he is now. Some are rooting for him to succeed, others to fail. One thing is for certain, as Barry Diller found out, it doesn't pay to underestimate David Wetherell. |
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| To: TFF who wrote (135) | 8/24/1999 11:29:00 PM | | From: Wolff | | | | |
Sounds like a shot gun approach wide spread, hoping something will hit eom |
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| To: TFF who wrote (135) | 8/24/1999 11:37:00 PM | | From: TheLineMan | | | | |
I guess finding 4 new investments a month isn't that easy- sraping the barrel now. Is that why the did the deal with IMAA. As well as getting 29% of IMAA they had to give away a bunch of warrants at $4 and $6.20. I wouldn't say CMGI are confident in this venture - would you? |
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| To: TheLineMan who wrote (137) | 8/25/1999 12:14:00 AM | | From: TheLineMan | | | | |
Sorry about that - I got called at a critical point in that message the 29% I was referring to was buyingedge.com not IMAA. |
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| To: TFF who wrote (135) | 8/25/1999 10:49:00 AM | | From: LTK007 | | | |
TFF you keep forgetting the publihed time frame to bring buyingedge out as a an IPO is 1.5 to 2 years!(by then IMAA may be a Q stock)
Also by making 4 venture capital investments per month they are well aware that only maybe 1 in 4 will be a winner-the rest will become write-offs.
That is the nature of venture investment--if they only have one in 4 winners they still clean-up.
Max90 |
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| To: TFF who wrote (141) | 8/25/1999 12:54:00 PM | | From: LTK007 | | | |
TFF don't me make go on a dig ---if you search it's in one of the
items posted--the NYT article or one of the DJ releases--I will when I have time this evening go re-dig up the source.
But to balance that where do you have a source that says it is a neear term IPO?
BTW,one of my favorite stocks has finally started to run--
I am NOT! in it now,but I am ALWAYS glad to see a stock I
recommended take off--it is a internet related stock Paradyne,PDYN and easily deserves to run with the likes of CMTN and RBAK---may enter now,may not I am sort of taking it easy these days.Max90
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