Valuation of the "intellectual property" that the company presently has will play the key role for a buyout offer of VOIS IMO. What that's worth would be all over the map if you talked to 100 people just as it is here on the board. The company has no history of sales numbers, percentage of market penetration. Hell, no one even knows how many market applications are possible other then "a lot". When Joe sold his 2 companies for a billion dollars in the middle 90's to middle 2000's the price of a gallon of gas averaged under $2 and the cost of a dozen eggs was barely a buck. Fifteen years ago...and boy has the cost of goods, services and purchasing whole companies gone up since then.
If the new earpiece works as well as advertised and is a product that is perceived as one that will turn the tech world "on it's ear" (sorry, just has to) and change the way we live in the future, how many tens of billions in potential revenue would that create worldwide? If it works as well as advertised I would think that a progressive and aggressive company that just "has to be the leader in this space" is not going to hang around to see if it can be marketed (hello Joe), to see if it can be massed produced (who wouldn't want this contract) and to see if it will sell before I stepped up to the pay window. If you feel from your research that all of these conditions will undoubtedly be met and if you absolutely HAVE to be first in line, then you have to act first, have a pretty healthy pocketbook and be willing to part with nice chunk of it as you sit across the table from Joe discussing the value of the intellectual property. Valuation based on share price may provide some financial yardstick in conventional analysis of a company's' worth, but I don't see it taking anything other than a minor role with VOIS. Joe has a $$$ number if a significant party were to step up tomorrow, and he probably has a good idea of Vois' worth in 6 months if sales projections and user satisfaction ratings are achieved. If I want to be first to the table I'm in Joes' office before the holidays banking on the fact that all of the above conditions will be met....and growth numbers will be completely blown away as new markets are discovered. For me, acceptance of an offer of 500M would be a giveaway for the pioneer in a multi, multi, multi billion dollar industry that has technology that is presently years ahead of the competition. I could be as far off as the other 99 people you might ask this question, but one thing is for sure...someone want's to be first in this arena and Joes' going to make sure they pay every last cent of what he and the board feels the company is worth.
Obviously this is only my opinion.....love to more from others. (sorry for the length).
