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Good DD Stoned and thanks for that. And a kudos to all for making the best effort to keep this thread from turning into a typical P&D scheme. Lets try to keep policing ourselves, cause I'll bet the Mods are keeping an eagle eye on us, as well they should.
I second the sentiment Captn'. The web is certainly full of the P&D'ers so I understand the concern of ET. That said, there is "longshot" opportunity on some of these penny plays and there is a place in some portfolios for those with a high risk tolerance. My play (ZROS) was my FIRST EVER penny play and it has returned 400% + in 2 months.
Here is an edited excerpt from ChangeWave on ZROS (dated 2/13/07). I don't know a thing about Change Wave, but they do have some "big" names associated with them, so they appear to be at least somewhat legit as opposed to just a P&D'er. (This is pretty long so it will likely take a couple of posts).
Dear ChangeWave MicroCap Investor,
We're excited about this potential 10- to 50-bagger disruptive technology investment and the time is at hand for this play. We've spent months researching and following this company, and it's time to act now before the story gets out to the rest of the world.
The speed of the growth of High-Definition Video-over-Internet Protocol (HDVIP) revolution is definitely kicking into high gear. You only have to look at Cisco's recent earnings announcement to learn everything you need to know about the upward trajectory of the VIP growth wave.
And if there is one thing that's getting our attention with the same high level of enthusiasm that e-mail did in the '90s, John T. Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco, says it best, "If there is a killer app, it is video."
Remember, when you hear Video-over-Internet, you should really be thinking High-Definition over Internet. And HDVIP literally requires a new way to transfer gigabytes of zeros and ones (the internal binary system used by almost all computers) over the Internet.
And this is where a company aptly named Zeros & Ones (ZROS) comes in. What's elegant about this company is what they do in a logical, simple and incredibly powerful way.
This story could very well be a 10-bagger for us for reasons that will become abundantly clear in a minute. What's important to us is that the stock has started to move as its beta test was announced last week. The rollout comes in early April.
A COMPANY NO ONE HAS HEARD OF, YET
ZROS is an Xtreme (maybe extreme Xtreme) company that gives us real management with billions of dollars in previous breakthrough technology success, real mega-customers at hand, a multibillion dollar market that exists now, no dilutive PIPE financing deals, and a go-to-market plan that starts in months, not years.
Why the excitement? We are talking the next generation of the Internet -- a digital revolution that is on now. Our newest recommendation has a de facto operating system (OS) for the next-generation digital highway -- in fact, it would be more accurate to call it the Internet Autobahn.
Zeros & Ones is a company with an unusual name -- but is also a company with a very "here-and-now" benefit for humans living on the digital highway. We are talking 100 times faster Internet over existing systems, and 800 times faster with an upgrade to fiber optics -- technology that ZROS controls.
And there are reports about TV and film downloads hitting the $6 billion-per-year mark by 2012 -- TiVo and Amazon are joining forces to put Web video on TV sets. And that's only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
So, what's the big problem? An exponential growth of 2 gigabit high-def movies, TV shows and other streaming video, has the world's Internet infrastructure bulging at the seams.
The High-Definition Video-over-Internet Protocol Wave is a trillion-dollar technology shift with two major hurdles: Internet speed and bandwidth.
TO THE RESCUE
Zeros & Ones solves both problems and does not require new devices, new boxes, new wires or new anything. The system is called RocketStream and is software-based. It requires Internet users to do NOTHING different.RocketStream is proven, has patents pending and is in beta-testing release right now! Full worldwide release could come in the next 60 days.With RocketStream's software loaded on your PC or mobile phone, you have the dashboard you need to access the 92.5% of the Internet that stands empty.
RocketStream brings corporations and consumers a powerful, yet user-friendly, method of transferring, retrieving and uploading large files, databases and high-def media faster and more securely than traditional alternatives.
ZERO's technology provides an Internet signal with 100-times-faster data downloading to any device it's connected to over existing infrastructure.The RocketStream suite is capable of delivering synchronized high-fidelity video, audio, text and VOIP over a centralized network to worldwide participants in less than a quarter-second. It enables point-to-point file transfers without the need for an interim server. And this software suite works in all languages, on existing desktop and server platforms. Even better, it requires no additional hardware to install and is priced way below competing solutions.
How?
The current protocol used for data delivery is File Transfer Protocol (FTP). It is insecure, and only uses 7.5% of the available bandwidth. The remaining 92.5% of bandwidth is not being used simply because FTP is not equipped to perform within today's existing TCP/IP protocol.RocketStream provides the real-time encryption and automatic payload verification that FTP delivers -- minus all the competing data packets. It's like an open freeway running alongside a crowded highway -- it's really that simple.What RocketStream software does is give a "handshake" and a security system to the other 92.5% of the Internet pipeline.
SHOW ME THE MONEY
Zeros & Ones has financed itself to this point with management money, and as a consequence it is very frugal with cash -- they're using their own. It's also important to note that management has significant net worth and enough money to get the product out, we believe, with no dilution.
THE BEST PART OF THE ZROS STORY ... THE MANAGEMENT TEAM
In microcap land, just having disruptive technology is not enough. There must be a management team that can deliver. Zeros & Ones has such a team and it reads like a Who's Who of Silicon Valley.
Mark Laisure is the CEO and one of the founders of Inktomi, which was acquired by Yahoo! for almost $2 billion. He managed to bring Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, HotBot and Wal-Mart on as partners. Laisure co-founded iNetNow, created MeshNetworks (a Phase II startup acquired by Motorola) and won the R&D 100 Award for "Most Technologically Significant New Product." Finally, he has won a number of s distinguished awards, including the R&D 100 award for the most technologically significant new product and BusinessWeek magazine's wireless product of the year.
Along with Laisure comes Dana Waldman, a director. He is former director of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Communication System, and CEO and co-founder of CenterPoint BroadBand -- a Lockheed spin-off.
Also on board is Scott Fairbairn, Zeros & Ones CTO. He is founder of Breakthrough Technologies, and since 1985 he has founded, funded and operated four entrepreneurial startups -- facilitating their successful M&As into both private and publicly traded entities.
THE BEST PART OF THE ZROS STORY ... THE MANAGEMENT TEAM
In microcap land, just having disruptive technology is not enough. There must be a management team that can deliver. Zeros & Ones has such a team and it reads like a Who's Who of Silicon Valley.
Mark Laisure is the CEO and one of the founders of Inktomi, which was acquired by Yahoo! for almost $2 billion. He managed to bring Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, HotBot and Wal-Mart on as partners. Laisure co-founded iNetNow, created MeshNetworks (a Phase II startup acquired by Motorola) and won the R&D 100 Award for "Most Technologically Significant New Product." Finally, he has won a number of s distinguished awards, including the R&D 100 award for the most technologically significant new product and BusinessWeek magazine's wireless product of the year.
Along with Laisure comes Dana Waldman, a director. He is former director of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Communication System, and CEO and co-founder of CenterPoint BroadBand -- a Lockheed spin-off.
Also on board is Scott Fairbairn, Zeros & Ones CTO. He is founder of Breakthrough Technologies, and since 1985 he has founded, funded and operated four entrepreneurial startups -- facilitating their successful M&As into both private and publicly traded entities.
