Who's gonna finance POET's growth? Not us retailers.    

Who's gonna lift to and keep POET on the NASDAQ? Not us retailers.

So who must be POET's focus on? Not us retailers.

Let's face it: we have to choose between "mimes" and real stocks. Mimes are easy to push.The "quick buck- Vegas here I come - community" dreams of POET being a mime stock. Well, it isn't. (F. Zappa would have said: "it even ain't".)

This is about establishing real value based on real products in a real B2B world. A world dominated not by retailers dreaming of selling their stock to waste their profits in Vegas (as some of my fellow coutryman still do), but by big guns allowing breadcrumbs for us retailers only as it's unavoidable.

Blaming mgmt to chose "real business" instead of "dreams" is naiv at best.

Then again, we retailers have fed on breadcrumbs very well, if we invested in time into companies aiming at "real business". Would it be nice to have a mgmt pleasing our egos? Oh yeah! Would it be helpful for an emerging Global Player? Not really. POET need a handfull of customers, that will develop something based on the "singular genius", not a plethora of (a)social media followers, who will never ever buy an optical interposer let alone knowing what it is good for.

Life is hard but has its bright moments. Call it the Retailors' Blues.