Friday, January 21, 2011

Mike Kind (the last lecture)

-2 months ago his apraisal business started to slow down so he decided to try something new
-it was a garbage truck sales site
-he got an offer for 15 trucks
-he flew out to new york to get the trucks together

Island Park -2
Ronkaman  -1
Coopursberg, PA 3-6
Mamassas, VA
Washington DC

-flew to miami to deal with all the trucks
-flew to Panama City to learn how to work the trucks
-he made a huge amount of money on selling these trucks and has a bunch more to sell
-he started up this business for under $2000 and made alot of money
-found out that people were wanting to buy trucks were from other countries
-got a person who speacks fluent spanish to make their business international
-take what you have and take it to a developing country
-focus on internet on global and on developing countries

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Hershey

-Milton Hershey was know as the chocolate king
-His father had many ideas but many of them never happened because he didn't have enough money or perseverence
-Milton had ideas as well but had more perserverence and more money so he got into the chocolate business
-got into the cany business when he was 18 years old
-stuggled for many years to be successful at the candy business
-he eventually started to do well and he made more money
-started to expand and make more plants
-decided to get into chocolate and said it would do better than caramel which he thought was just a fad
-made tons of money of chocolate and was the henry ford of the chocolate industry

Friday, January 7, 2011

Kellogs

-Corn Flakes
-the country was all about getting healthy
-he never wanted to be a doctor
-he becam a vegetarian when he was 14 years old
-joined a church and they encouragedhim to be a doctor
-got his doctors segree in 2 years
-he worked at a place that was called the sanitarium
-this place was very similar to nowday spas
-he came up with many devices to help people relax
-he believed eating meat was a sin
-made many thing to make people get healthier
-their greatest achievment was making corn flakes
-many people started to make healthy cereals
-he did many things in his life to help people
-he was a very smar person

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Jump forward

-have a good introductionws
-tell a story about their company
-state a problem and how their business solves it
-they asked them how they were going to make money
-they had a good rebbuttle
-they jumped on the oppertunity because these people were very smart
-they got 600 000 for 50%

Happiness Products
-wants to spread happiness to everyone
-tells a good story
-has a passion for her business
-but her business isn't making any money
-she didn't listen to the money that was telling her to let go of the business