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...Massachusetts senatorial race went high-tech--and highbrow--yesterday afternoon when candidates William F. Weld '66 and John F. Kerry spoke about issues facing the state's biotechnology industry at the Genetics Institute...
...presentation, coordinated by the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MBA), the candidates spoke for about half an hour each on issues ranging from government funding for biotechnology research to the importance of education to the state's high-tech industries...
Kerry pointed to his support of such high-tech friendly programs as Small Business Investment Research (SBIR), the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) and export license reforms...
...less than stellar performance since the S&P index of 500 stocks rose 78.5% over the same period. Warns William Benedetto, who heads the New York City investment banking firm Benedetto Gartland & Greene, which helps raise money for start-ups: "The individual investor should not be in the high-tech IPO market, period." If they want a piece of the action, he adds, they should buy IPO mutual funds...
...Recent high-tech start-ups have fared even worse. A Houston, Pennsylvania, software maker called ANSYS opened at $13 per share on June 20, only to finish the day at $12 per share. ANSYS closed Friday at $12.37. New medical companies have been hit just as hard. CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals, a California dental-research firm, tried to lure investors last month by lowering the price of its IPO to $10 per share, well below the high of $15 originally projected. It didn't work: CollaGenex stumbled on its first day of trading, to $8.63 per share...