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Media Quotes BloombergTV: Social Networking Fox Bus NewsTV: China IPOs BloombergTV interview Skype-hype & the IPO Market Reuters TV interview: FriendFinder (FFN) Jan 25 "People are saying it's a lousy market, but there's a huge quantity of deals.  The problem is that while investment banks are selling a story to these companies, it's the individual investors who make up their own minds. If these deals were just priced reasonably, it would be a different situation."  Feb 8 Washington Post "QuinStreet has an established business and may do well. The longer-term risk is how easy it is for ad agencies and others to do what they doing.  The problem they're having with DeVry may be the canary in the coal mine." Feb 8 Wall Street Journal Tesla battery-powered electric 'ferrari' IPO: "If they get the funding they need, from the IPO or other sources, then I believe they might for a while show some decent sales, but if the niche becomes big enough then the elephants will step in, grow the market themselves and take the lion's share"  Feb 5 Globe & Mail QuinStreet: "the company's growth is attracting some unwanted attention."  Feb 3 Investors.com "Ironwood has potential as a business, but the company is not being 'realistic'with its IPO price." Jan 29 Business Week "They're branded (IFM Inv--CTC, Century 21 China) , they have visibility, they're a player in the market. But people are afraid their income statement will be hurt" by the tightening of China's monetary policy Jan 28 Reuters “The Friendfinder IPO is hot, but not in the IPO sense.  The adult subscriber base is decreasing. Recently, sales have been flat and the company has had difficulty servicing its heavy debt load.” Jan 25 ABC news “IFM's valuation is roughly in line with much larger publicly traded Chinese real estate services company E-House China Holdings Ltd, (EJ.N)” Jan 24 Reuters “Telegent Systems Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based chipmaker for mobile-TV devices, may be valued as high as $1.5 billion in a future IPO” Bloomberg "Investors shouldn't assume the busy week means the IPOs are good ones.  Only Symetra, backed by Berkshire, is attractive for investors. The true measures of the IPO market's health will come later."  Jan 22, USA  TODAY Buffett Boosts Flowers, Berkowitz Pricing Symetra IPO  Jan 21 Bloomberg "Symetra now has an estimated price-to-book value of 0.85, 43% less than the 1.5 multiple it would have based on the midpoint of the 2007 offering price." Warren Buffett to retain shares “The fact that he (Buffett) is holding his stock is a definite plus, It gives institutional investors a feeling of security.” Business Week "Five IPOs are scheduled for (this) week — that's high for January" Investor's Business Daily "There's quite an appetite right now for profitable companies" IPO comeback in 2009 sets stage for busy 2010 "It's a public drilling fund with no tax advantages," he said. "They'd better find oil soon and fast." referring to Cobalt Energy (CIE) Over 500 More Media Quotes & Appearances  go there now  About  Gaskins &  IPOdesktop     TV/Video Interviews Our Television producer/director stars in this major commercial The right exposure is everything CEOtelevision