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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:39:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mark A Bertone 
Reply-To: Mark A Bertone 
To: web-staff@enterprise.interpath.net
Subject: Top 10 reasons the "Wired" IPO ran into trouble
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>From my buds at c|net...

10. Investors discovered it was a publishing company
9.  HotBot: toy car or search engine?
8.  "Wired" too hip for NASDAQ and AMEX, wants to start
    own exchange
7.  Geeks and suits: not a happy mix
6.  Too many of Hotwired's cocktails
5.  A big mix-up: investors kept going to www.howtired.com
    instead
4.  Top investors spent all their money on snowboards;
    none left for stock
3.  Wired's ticker symbol, SUCK, turning people off
2.  Expected investors to pay with e-cash
1.  Nobody could read the prospectus: printed in blue
    ink on red paper

Apologies, and best wishes, to Wired (symbol: WWWW).

 http://www.hotwired.com/



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