The strategy is fine, except if you're a public company. ESPECIALLY if insiders or others happen to know the true numbers, which can attract all sorts of investor law suits for not telling the truth and artificially depressing the stock price.
Once you become public, everything changes. On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > blaze spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh yeah, brilliant strategy. Let's appear incompetent. That won't >> encourage competitors... > > > Actually, that was Patterson's strategy, as I have often mentioned. He > wanted potential competitors to think there was nothing to see. Cold fusion > does not exist. Don't bother doing any research. I think it may be getting > a little late for that strategy now that Rossi is making a splash. > > It was a terrible strategy. But it did accomplish the main goal. No one > took interest in Patterson. No investor believed him enough to fund the > company. > > I realize this is a joke, but I doubt Defkalion is trying to appear > incompetent. I think they could easily fix their demo and their PR > problems. The demo as they did it was interesting and promising. Practice a > few more times, tighten up the script, make some good accompanying graphics > and you would have a superb demonstration. It just needs tweaking. > > - Jed > >
