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igotthemojo

05/12/11 8:47 PM

#20338 RE: es1 #20333

your personal buys and sells have no bearing on the issue...i have no idea if you are being truthfull in your claims or not..

long is long, short is short but how long is long and how short is short..wtf?

you see the same visions as kim?..you are seeing visions now?..holy cow..

"You are right I have wishful thinking in the long term vision. What would you expect from someone who expects to have made a good investment"

you might want to include a dose of reality in your "visions" of grandeur..
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ZincFinger

05/12/11 9:49 PM

#20346 RE: es1 #20333

There is no way to raise money without something that is equivalent to dilution. (with one exception, noted below)

If you get the money from selling royalties, for example, then money comes out your future profits which will have about the same effects as dilution over the long term

It's just a matter of how you prefer to do it. One of the biggest differences is that when you get money by selling royalties, the buyer extracts a premium because he is sharing part of the risk (of course anyone buying stock in a secondary is also sharing the risk).

So the alternatives may not be nearly as different as you think.

The critical point is not how you get the money but how it is spent:

Is it spent in some way that increases the value of the company more than the cost of the money (which, IMHO, using it to complete Gen2 (pure spider silk producing worms) certainly would be) or is it wasted on useless things like executive bonuses etc.

The only exception I know of is grants from either private or government sources. (SGMO is quite good at that and it's one reason why their cash position is so remarkably good).