The onus is not on Apple to resurrect Liquidmetal.
Regardless if he is the guy who said he had two friends at Apple at a shareholders meeting (first one he conducted after being named CEO), the onus is on Tom Steipp, to get off his ass and land contracts with NON-CE accounts.
It is precisely THREE YEARS since he took charge at LQMT,
It is precisely THREE and one-half years since he first was a consultant to LQMT.
Believe me, I have been a VP of Sales and Marketing for both low tech and mid-tech industries. I cannot fathom the thought of reporting to my board of directors after three years that I have not initiated any contracts from my own efforts as CEO. And this after piggy backing on TEN YEARS PLUS of developing the technology.
All Steipp can say today is that he has cleaned up the books, a creditable accomplishment, but which belongs to Tony Chung.
All other facets of business development and saavy are disastrous.
As many have said, the web-site is for scientific gurus, BUT NOT FOR PURCHASING AGENTS and MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS.
Go to any website, like MATERION, like Allegheny Ludlum, like Carpenter Technology, like Precisioncast Parts, etc. (you get the idea) and THESE PEOPLE TALK BUSINESS.
It is time to take off the flight-training wheels and get this Company AIRBORNE. We are in combat. This is not a peacetime training exercise. We are fighting for SURVIVAL.
(Now, ask me if I subscribe to Richard Simmons, kissy-feely approach to business and investments, Sandy)
GET SOME SENSE OF URGENCY and start treating the shareholders with some respect.
Stop behaving like debutantes on the Website, when you are making LQMT look like a wallflower. Get on the dance floor and ACTION!
There is NO WAY the current approach by the Psychologist wannabe business developer and staff under Ogawa is going to be taken seriously in the business community.
There is not one BULL DOG in the whole company. Most are intellectual effete ineffectual at business types. NICE GUYS, if you will. Time for a hard ass leader to be hired to run the company.
Someone who can make a PERT DIAGRAM and EXECUTE IT instead of hide it after the first year orgasm.
ASK ME HOW I REALLY FEEL.
Kickin ASS and getting rid of dead wood is the only way to redemption.
