Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[Watts Watt]

There certainly have been ample enough responses to your post, and, reluctantly, I am tempted not to make any additions. However, a few points were overlooked:

1) The reason you will never see LQMT make a razor blade of liquidmetal is simple: No matter whether it is single edged, double edged, single blade or multi-blade, the key to the marketing success of this product is planned obsolescence and repeat sales. It is not the cost of liquidmetal which makes razor blades prohibitive, It is the cost to a mass marketeer of their longevity. Turn-over, not superior life is what the marketer wants

2) You state:

My thoughts are when you manufacture products for other companies you are at the mercy of their ability to sell their products as well as competing with other possible manufacturers. But if LQMT come up with it's own product that almost all consumers can use like Kleenx, Alteria Group and DuPont etc., then LQMT will rocket up to the moon and beyond.

The reality is that LQMT does need other companies to work their own markets and to make products which they have been successful at doing and to grow their own markets with new products. Other companies marketing their own ideas and products will far exceed anything that Liquidmetal could ever do on its own. Let's make that perfectly clear.
We are not offering a material, but rather a material and a process which will be an essential combination for other companies to prosper with LQMT. Who makes a product is not really the essential issue here:
It is who can manufacture and commercialize most effectively and profitably.

3)

Until LQMT or someone can think outside of the box

This cliche is not realistic and does not achieve its aim. While, it is true, no thinking should be ultimately confined to a box, neither should it be confined to thinking outside of the box. For no limitations should ever be applied to thinking. If you are thinking only outside of the box then you are denying what may be, in reality, in the box, or a continuum which is both inside and outside the box.

NO BOX THINKING is what is required to adequate search for possibilities.

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4) Now the one point on patience is what I totally agree with. The patience of waiting eleven years after joining this board to write a post is indeed very commendable. For myself, I rather wish I had not been posting at all since 2003. Posting has not made me wealthy at all.