1.  As a technology investor, he had been elated by the early success of Netscape Inc., a hot new Internet company that had its first public stock offering.

2.  Aspiring techies dream of being the next Marc Andreesen, one of the founders of Netscape Communications Corp., a very hot Internet company in California.

3.  Brokers have been accused of hoarding shares, especially of hot companies expected to surge on listing day.

4.  But the demand for technology stocks earlier this year lured several hot companies to market after only a year or two of operations.

5.  Hot Internet companies are starting off July at the same sizzling pace they ended the first half of the year.

6.  Hot new companies were going to the Nasdaq, which was shedding its image as an incubator for companies that would graduate to the Big Board.

7.  It was a month after Netscape had sold shares to the public and the Internet start-up was suddenly a hot company.

8.  It was the original hot Internet company, and anyone who got in on the stock the first day it traded last August has no reason to be sad.

9.  Microsoft, as you may remember, caused a little trouble for that other hot Internet company, Netscape Communications.

10.  Nearly all the shares of many dull performers are owned by the public, while few of the shares of the hot companies are so owned.