{"id":1373,"date":"2005-05-15T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T09:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2005-05-15T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2005-05-15T09:05:11","slug":"local_tech_firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1373","title":{"rendered":"Local Tech Firm Sonic Foundry&#8217;s Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Wallmeyer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/archives\/read.php?ref=wsj:2005:05:13:415538:BUSINESS\">summarizes<\/a> Sonic Foundry&#8217;s current state of affairs and provides a useful bit of history in terms of their stock mania and subsequent losses.   The tech business can be brutal.   We&#8217;ll see how SF navigates these waters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> &#8220;When you look at the number of tech companies that didn&#8217;t make it when the bubble burst, it&#8217;s truly amazing that this company was able to get it under control and survive that period,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The carnage was so absolute.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If some of this smacks of boosterism, that&#8217;s because it is. Aside from their personal financial interest, many of the stockholders at the meeting said they root for Sonic Foundry because they want to see a local company succeed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been up and I&#8217;ve been down with the company,&#8221; said Hughes, who once watched his Sonic Foundry holdings fall from $100,000 to $1,000. &#8220;But it&#8217;s nice to be in a Madison company, being from Madison.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Wallmeyer summarizes Sonic Foundry&#8217;s current state of affairs and provides a useful bit of history in terms of their stock mania and subsequent losses. The tech business can be brutal. We&#8217;ll see how SF navigates these waters. &#8220;When you look at the number of tech companies that didn&#8217;t make it when the bubble burst, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}