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then started working on SkyMall's second round financing road show
directly with the CEO.
The
Announcement of the revised Internet strategy coupled with the fact
that Internet based sales had tripled in the last quarter, shifted
stock prices for SkyMall (NASDAQ SKYM) from $12 per share to $48.
The extract below from the Wall Street Journal illustrates the success
of the Riptide / SkyMall strategy.
"Catalog specialty-retailer SkyMall has tripled since Christmas,
after it announced faster-than-expected sales growth on its Web
site."
Aaron Luchetti
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - December 1998
"Doug
Lockyer is one of the greatest minds in e-commerce today, and is
an Internet visionary"
Bob
Worsely, CEO of SkyMall, January 2000, in an introduction to business
partners and SkyMall investors.
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