One of these is Netbasis, offered by the Phoenix, Ariz. firm NetWorth Services.

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NetWorth ultimately sold out in November 1995 to Compaq Computer, which shut it down less than three years later.

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But at NetWorth, a networking equipment company, Floyd engineered one of the most successful initial public offerings of the early 1990s and left before Cisco Systems made selling me-too networking products a dicey proposition.

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