English is my 2nd language too. But I feel more

comfortable using it to discuss business, especially the serious ones, otherwise I just make jokes for enjoyment.

When I talked about Coke Cola, I was not trying to tell people how successful as it is. Quite opposite, what I tried to tell is that the original inventor was pushed out of the loop and the business gets taken off only by generations of the business persons, plus a few lucks. If you really intereested in the specific Coke Cola case, my take would be that their biggest risk to continuously safisfy the shareholders is the COMPETITION. So fay the leadership has managed the risk and mitigated the possible consequences quite well to diversify their product lines. I don't think anyone in this forum has the similar magnitude of pressure as much as the company, although it doesn't mean there is less competition and pressure.

What I also try to tell is that depending on the nature and the migrating path of a specific business, commonalities exist and a savvy manager should be able to analyze the pros and cons of his business, after the business takes off using his own intuition. That's called maturity of a business and total control. What this really mean is that you want to spend as litltle efforts to achieve maximum profits, including the ugly side of the tactics you are seeing everyday.

I also tried to compare the discussions among eBay auction and make a patent, or a dream, to a reality. The former is a simple model, asking and learning the whole process to cover all aspect sof the technical details are perfectly natural and people jumped to help contributes the health of the discussion. While going a little furthur to touch something personal and trying to dig some trade secret are inappropreiate. But nobody would be serious about the nature of the question.

While the later (the patent case) is a little different. When people started to tell that they have something on hand and try to attract investors without detailing how the fund will be utilized, what process would lead to a successful outcomes as predicted, and what the pitfalls laid ahead in the future, don't they really know in the business world, this could be referred to as "Cheating" ot "Illegal Solicitation"? The business world has no mercy for new comers. A burning desire doesn't guarantee future success. So I started to tell the only way and correct way is to pay for success, because it involves hundreds of working hours by professionals, not strangers picked up on the streets.

This was my original thought for the discussion. Since you are a member of your local chamber of commerce, you might want to discuss your goals with the local economy. I wish I could help. I have been doing this process, I mean the whole business life cycle for quite a while. I worked for some unique models telling the customers how much they are expected to pay for what new services on its migration path. I also worked for customers telling me to cut the original budget in half and how to make it come true. Is it fun? The important thing is this is a job, and it helped me to put meals on my table. That's all.

The world business and commerce are not started because someone is just graduated from school, they started thousands of years ago, and entered into this modern days practice as we see today. There are good ways to do something, or bad ways, or no ways. I came here for fun, not with any purpose because I need relex between meetings and negotiations.

All theory been said, nothing with specifics, but sometime you need BS to to do presentations, don't you?

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• it is fun to read your writing -做个厚道人- ♂ (227 bytes) () 04/28/2007 postreply 18:17:53

• Good luck, buddy. Role number 1, don't break up -2526- ♂ (383 bytes) () 04/28/2007 postreply 21:59:59