From:	The Wyrm Ouroboros <oroboros@******.COM>
Subject:	Re: Industrial Sound and Magic
Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 1995 01:46:49 -0700

> I dont think (but I admit to not knowing how this all works) that I will
> be a threat to the BIG 10 (yeah, right, me??) but I dont know what something
> like this would stir up. As I see it, I need more money (Jason, that is) to
> finance my new security company and dropping 3.5M shares on the
> market should be a good way of producing the type of money I need to purchase
> the equipment I want. Sure, I could get a team together to steal it but
> sooner or later Ares or Maxim Arms will definitely find out I have it and
> want it back (and, well, I dont want to be on the run).

Um, what is IS&M worth, right now? Even if they don't sell actual stock on
the exchange, it's still considered to be worth X amount of nuyen per
share or percentage point of ownership in the company. To be honest, doing
what you're suggesting is a _really_ bad idea, unless those that currently
own major amounts of stock have a lot of money to dump into the corp.
If they don't, they're running a _serious_ risk of losing control of the
corporation.

A much better idea is to sell bonds instead. Sell, say, up to 1/2 the net
worth of the company in bonds. Doing so lets the board keep their position
of power, yet get the cash with which to do business.


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Ouroboros
The (Dead) Wyrm of the .Net