NeoMedia Technologies, Inc (NEOM)

[jonesieatl]

Wouldn't that be great?

I'm going to bet 'no'.

But here's what I hope happened/happens:

-- WHY CH WAS HIRED: CH was the only logical choice as he
could utilize all of his contacts along with his background at
mBlox in 'bringing SMS to the U.S. masses' to put together an
incredibly complex deal with Apple/AT&T/NEOM which will
culminate in NeoReader being preinstalled on the new iPhone.

-- THE DEAL: This megadeal includes all necessary aspects of
the perfect frictionless ecosystem , including the mechanisms
for ensuring that all participants
(carriers/brand-managers/etc) in mobile-based
marketing/advertising are properly compensated.

-- THE RESULT: The fact that the deal does involve the
iPhone instantly makes usage of the NeoReader a defacto
standard worldwide and immediately hundreds of pent-up mobile
marketing campaigns are rolled out at nearly machine-gun speed
, resulting in enormous revenues to NeoMedia from the get-go.
Within weeks a check is written to Yorkville including
prepayment premiums and NeoMedia moves from being 96% buried by
Yorkville to being 100% debt-free. NEOM's PPS gaps up to
$1.00 per share , making instant millionaires out of many
faithful shareholders.

-- WHY FP WAS HIRED: The ecosystem's financial complexity turns
out to be why FP was brought on board as only someone with
that horsepower and Tatum-support could pull it off. (as
opposed to him simply being there to keep everything legit
SEC-filings-wise while an appropriate
statute-of-limitations-relevant amount of time was elapsing
between regimes and prior to completing a BK or other
shareholder-killing actions).

-- THE CONTEXT: CH managed to put all of this 'into play'
under the strictest of NDA's between all parties (that poor
excited DSMedialabs guy is the only one who blew it and got
yelled at. That's seriously not much leakage compared to the
magnitude of the impending coup , especially when considering
how many people had to be involved. And it was all done amidst
the sternest of admonitions to all that any purchasing of
NeoMedia stock would almost certainly result in "Go Directly to
Jail , Do Not Pass Go" cards from the SEC , which explains why
the stock price drifted so low.

-- WHY CH LEFT AND IM CAME ABOARD: Once all of the contracts
were inked and everything was in place , congratulations were
made all around. CH , the prime orchestrator of the entire
megadeal , was asked what he felt would be an appropriate bonus
, to which he answered "You know , my work here is done and I
need to move on and find another challenging situation to
conquer. I could use a little break after working around the
clock for most of a year , so maybe just trigger my exit
package , that will give me a year and a half to recuperate and
seek out a suitable situation. That along with your gratitude
and my options will be payment enough. It was fun working with
all of you guys and Iain can certainly handle what comes
next."

I'm still going to bet "no" , but hold onto my shares , and
hope I'm wrong and my fairy-tale ending is correct.

JMO

jonesie