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Where there’s mystery, there’s margin.

Berkonomics

Even with the usual discount of 10%, the margins on hardware were high, especially when applied to prices that exceeded $30,000 per sale. . In the early eighties, IBM helped the PC become a tool of the office, and the product crossed over from use by early adopters to the mass market. Email readers, continue here.]

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Selling your business? Find the emotional buyer

Berkonomics

Most investment bankers will coach you into helping them find you a strategic buyer, knowing that such sales are quicker, often less focused upon the small warts of a business, and yield higher prices than financial sales. There is a third class of buyer I discovered first hand when selling my company – the emotional buyer.

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Who Should you Hire at a Startup?

Both Sides of the Table

Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. I believe that you should always hire people are are looking to “punch above their weight class,&# which means to hire people who want to be one league above where they are today. Weight Class : Let’s take sales. I’m not one of those. Your solution?

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Are You an Entrepreneur?

InfoChachkie

it is often helpful to look into your past. Excel at classes that interested you and perform poorly in those which did not. As noted in Your Personal Pitch , people enjoy helping appreciative people who are in need. Is it because they read a passage in a self-help book that told them to ‘wish away’ failure? –

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There are three kinds of business buyers.

Berkonomics

Most investment bankers will coach you into helping them find you a strategic buyer, knowing that such sales are quicker, often less focused upon the small warts of a business, and yield higher prices than financial sales. My buyer-candidate had previously licensed our firm as a distributor, a value-added reseller for its hardware.

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