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August 4, 2006
You Can't Spend BusinessWeek Covers
Lots of people having fun with BusinessWeek's unbelievably silly cover story on Digg. Cmon guys, Kevin's a good guy, and Digg is nifty, but he hasn't made $60mm from Digg, or $6m, or $600k, for that matter.
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George, that was PRICELESS. Well done.
Paul, this is the kind of hype you'd expect out of some '"pump and dump" e-mail stock spam that would go something like this:
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BW Stock Profile Of the Day - HOT HOT HOT
HOT STOCK NOW - "$200 MILLION" ACCORDING TO PEOPLE IN THE KNOW!
Digg.com (stock symbol DIGG) is going to take off this morning because people in the know are valuing it at $200 MILLION!
Don't wait, this stock is going to take off and you are going to miss out on the next Google. Just look at these numbers!
Revenues - $3,000,000!
Profits - Now Breakeven and able to pay the rent!
Current Value - $3,000,000
Projected Value Next Week - $200,000,000!!!!!!
You Make - 66,000% !!!
Buy it now. This is a freebie just for readers of BW stock promotions e-mail list.
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Best,
George