DNAprint Genomics (DNAG)

[stakddek]

ITSONLYMUNI: I think your being shortsighted in underestimating the value of personal contact at these "conferences" and expositions. There is a certain value to having the Key player make the presentation and take feedback from the peers in the audience. These conferences are not all "give". Others will have some comment or input that will benefit the science. Contacts are made, and when people ask questions, the "Man" is there to answer. This personal contact is necessary, and it does go both ways.

As far as losing Doctor Frudakis from lab chores for a few days, I'm sure there is much more value in what is being done in his head and on his laptop while traveling than just having him locked up in the lab prepping samples. Unless of course you expect him to make coffee, order pizza and sweep the floor too.

Now as to the vacation aspect, I never considered the travel and effort involved in business travel to be a vacation. Oh sure there are pleasant diversions created amidst the turmoil, but the business is why the trip. Not the pleasure.

But as you say, at this point as we are struggling towards respectable revenues (Lift that beaker, tote that tray), and suffering the horrors of having to accept dubious financing (does that mean counterfeit money or perhaps, worse yet, money acquired by nefarious activities?); Well anyway as we struggle forward and get those devoted customers and firmly emplace them, we can all look back and appreciate how those frequent flier miles made it all possible.

Just my humble disagreement with your humble opinion.

Stakddek