SHOW PREP QUESTIONS  4-15-06

(Answers should be 25-50 words.  No more than 30 seconds.)

1)  Tell us a little about yourself.  What were you doing before you joined/started your firm?

2)  What does your firm do?

3)  What’s the Big Picture opportunity for your firm in the next few years? 

4)  What are the biggest obstacles you have to overcome?

5)  Who do you compete with?

6)  What’s your edge in the marketplace?

            (Key points of differences that benefit the end-user.)

7)  What positive events do you hope/expect will happen in the next few months?    

(Contracts, patents, licenses, discoveries, aggressive marketing, etc. that could quantum leap the revenues of the firm.)

8)  How does your [P&L] (or other basic financial statement) look today?

9)  What’s the best case [P&L] scenario for the next year?

10)  Worst case?

11)  The first Red Chip Report on ____ came out in ____ of 20__.  Your stock was at $____.  We predicted $___.  Where are you today?

12)   What should small cap investors do?   (The answer to this is always “Buy the stock!”)