Jeff wrote
> So what does CMGI take out of the ground?
Itself judging by this extract from [1]
Steven Frankel, an analyst at Adams Harkness & Hill, said Wetherell's only
choice is to roll up his sleeves and rebuild the company from the ground up
with the help of a seasoned chief operating officer, which the company
doesn't have yet. "CMGI originally came out of a venture capital
environment," he said. "It's more focused on building and selling rather
than operating."
> So what does CMGI put back into the ground? Besides the discarded shards
of my
> soul which Dave Wetherell has buried in his backyard? Those don't count.
Itself ? On or around Jun 27 2001 according to
http://www.downside.com/deathwatch.html
Maybe I should have said Caterpillar the equiv of our JCB ;-)
[1] http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/INV20010109S0005
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Bone" <jbone@jump.net>
To: "peterjkilby" <peterjkilby@email.msn.com>
Cc: "Gregory Alan Bolcer" <gbolcer@endeavors.com>; "FoRK" <fork@xent.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: GAB Picks
>
>
> peterjkilby wrote:
>
> > Jeff wrote
> >
> > > If the company doesn't take something out of the ground
> >
> > Well that narrows it down to every company in the world ;-)
>
> So what does CMGI take out of the ground?
>
> > >put something in the ground
> >
> > Reduces it by a few
>
> So what does CMGI put back into the ground? Besides the discarded shards
of my
> soul which Dave Wetherell has buried in his backyard? Those don't count.
>
> ;-)
>
> > >make stuff that facilitates either putting stuff in or taking stuff out
> > > of the ground
> >
> > But surely everything ends up in or taken back out of the ground ? Or
are
> > you recommending JCB ;-)
>
> Closest thing I can find to JCB is JCBS - Jacobson Stores Inc., market cap
> $15.56M, *no earnings.* Looks like a winner to me. ;-)
>
> jb
>
>
>
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