Kara Rhane
Gallente
Rhane's Research and Development Labs.
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Posted - 2008.01.21 12:28:00 -
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Nyphur,
Your one of a handful of people on here that I've just constantly seen post good reports, have happy investors and lead by a great example. The way your choosing to 'wrap things up' makes me have a deeper respect for how you've handled this entire situation.
In my own 'Private IPO' we have 3 real life friends that know each other. One has problems the other two step up and help, sorry to say that I wish you had the same support system that I have been lucky enough to be blessed with.
As for leaving for a while, i think we all need it. I barely register under the radar on these forums (if anything I lurk like crazy) but I took a good 2 months of time off, just signing on to throw BPO's into the labs and cut and make a reply on the forums if needed. But after those two months my god what a difference, real life was caught up on. All the projects and junk that had been neglected for literally a year+ I was able to tackle and I actually yearned to come back, take on new challenges and try new stuff (I still missed the post patch roaring market tho, boo!) If anything I think a few months of having time for anything else will be a good breath of fresh air and you'll even find yourself doing something else and thinking of what could be accomplished in EVE. You'll be back 
Finally, this is just a (maybe considered knee jerk reaction) but it appears as if some of your business is selling the BPC's of the motherships you have BPO's for. I'm not sure I'm the right person (reputation wise) but I have been running our little BPO/BPC service for a year+, I've built a solid reputation in running our service and even tho we are up to 9 pages on our thread, 200+ posts and I think around 15,000+ views. I'd say *maybe* that if your investors liked what they saw with our reputation maybe a shift, reissue, or even transfer of sorts of running might be able to be arranged?
I might not know everything of your IPO, and I'm going to say upfront it's been many months if not longer that I was reading over your IPO. But maybe with the reputation we've built in our little (but long running  ) service we might be the people to continue the IPO (in some fashion).
I'm not to sure who here would know much about us, Ricdic and I have had good contact over the last year. He even saw me prepare my service and set it up since day one (even offered to merge into his company before we even started, but hey that's Ricdic  ) A few others have seen me post from time to time, and I've got 9 pages of people that have had positive dealings with me over the past year.
This is truly a shot in the dark and is meant more as a way to extend the service to your investors as well as giving me a shot at running an IPO of sorts (not too hard when it's already proven after all). I don't know what others will say about me or the corp but the offer to maybe start talks is there. I've been batting around the idea for an IPO for 5+ months, it's copy based and I told ricdic about it but didn't go ahead when I saw a few others do various parts of it on their own.
If you think it might be a good match (and yes, feel free to ask ricdic about me fully if you even debate this idea for a second) then I am easily reached through EVE mail or maybe here. It's a thought, and apologies if this comes kinda sudden but your copy and sale of the BPC's fits hand in glove of what I've been drawing up plans for for the past months (that break from EVE nixed the plan in my mind).
Yes this got wordy, but EVE mail offers too small a character limit to get this idea out there, and if a few investors or nyphur think it's not a good idea I'll see pretty quickly and respectfully withdraw the offer.
Hope things go well for you.
P.S. with current operations my corp wouldn't need any of your personal assets we have POS's and labs up with extra capacity.
-Kara
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