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Post #98,380 by rcareaga 4/23/03 6:24:27 PM Reply	brilliant I think you've nailed this one, Norm. You've matched man to mission sublimely. Norman King--popcorn magnate. The Bill Gates of popcorn. Hell, the King of Popcorn! So what if it's been eighteen years?--I know you can do this. Raid that home equity line of credit...sell the car...put one of the child's kidneys up on eBay...follow your dream. cordially, "Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist."
Post #98,383 by orion 4/23/03 6:33:15 PM 4/23/03 8:27:06 PM Reply	The Bill gates of popcorn I doubt I can do that well, I'd have the Orville Reddenbacker brand to beat, ACT II, and many others. I'd settle for enough to live on and make a house payment from. Maybe make enough to build a small office or factory to sell the Popcorn from. I'd need some help to move it from a one man operation to more than that. The main problems so far are: #1 Finding the finances to start the business and get an inventory. #2 Marketing the Popcorn, and establishing a brand-name. #3 Selling and Shipping the Popcorn, I may need help here from others if the orders get too big. #4 Finding a way to be competitive and keep customers returning. "Bill gates cannot guarantee Windows, so how are you going to guarantee my safety?" -John Crichton to the Emperor of the Scarrans on [link\|http://www.farscape.com\|FarScape] Edited by orion April 23, 2003, 08:27:06 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #98,402 by altmann 4/23/03 8:05:04 PM 4/23/03 8:05:14 PM Reply	Re: The Bill gates of popcorn Here is you competition: [link\|http://www.popweaver.com/\|http://www.popweaver.com/] Who provides a special brand of popcorn to the BSA: [link\|http://www.trails-end.com/\|http://www.trails-end.com/] According to this: [link\|http://www.mninter.net/~blkeagle/finance/popcorn.htm\|http://www.mninter.n...nance/popcorn.htm] Good Luck! -- Chris Altmann Edited by altmann April 23, 2003, 08:05:14 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #98,405 by orion 4/23/03 8:30:02 PM Reply	Yikes I'd better rethink it maybe I can't get into the BSA market, maybe I can just sell to consumers, a much larger market. But Pop-Weaver would still be a competitor. I am thinking about starting out with a small popcorn machine, do some small sales, see if I can handle that. I'm trying to be realistic about it so I don't get in over my head. "Bill gates cannot guarantee Windows, so how are you going to guarantee my safety?" -John Crichton to the Emperor of the Scarrans on [link\|http://www.farscape.com\|FarScape]
Post #98,425 by deSitter 4/23/03 11:15:37 PM Reply	More like Ziggy Pop -drl Light is heavy: R{} = (2R/W)T - (1/2W){D-2,D-2}W Heavy is light: (D-3)(RF[] + 5/4 g) = 0
Post #98,406 by tuberculosis 4/23/03 8:31:15 PM 8/21/07 5:40:53 AM Reply	Don't laugh too hard One of my high school class mates ended up with this business: [link\|http://www.nuttyb.com/\|http://www.nuttyb.com/] His bio on our high school website reads: "I graduated from M.I.T. in 1987 with a Masters and Bachelors in Aeronautical Engineering. After working for Boeing and NASA, I started a company making nut roasting equipment and selling the ingredients." So you never know. "Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes. Contestants in a suicidal race." - Synchronicity II - The Police Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 05:40:53 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #98,421 by orion 4/23/03 10:45:29 PM Reply	One of my ideas is to make my own Popcorn seasoning to have different flavors. Later on I could just sell the seasoning or topping to other companies. But to be realistic, in order to make $500, I'd have to sell 100 bags of Popcorn at $5 a bag for a very large bag (3 or 5 pounds) of Popcorn. That would be gross, and then I'd have to take out the cost of making the Popcorn, marketing costs, business costs, and paying my salary, it wouldn't be very much unless I can sell a great deal of Popcorn. I may not even be able to sell it for $5 a bag if I wanted to be competitive. This may turn out to be more of a hobby than a career, unless I can find a way of selling large quanities of the Popcorn. Worst possible case, I can earn myself less than $400 a month, and that would be fine with my disability as they wouldn't allow much more than that. But if it takes off, I could potentionally get off disability and start a good business. "Bill gates cannot guarantee Windows, so how are you going to guarantee my safety?" -John Crichton to the Emperor of the Scarrans on [link\|http://www.farscape.com\|FarScape]

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