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From: greenspan05@wharton.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Entrepreneurs Conference at Wharton
Date: 1 Oct 92 21:00:00 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
			Proudly Presents

The 6th Annual  Mid-Atlantic Conference on Entrepreneurship

			November 14, 1992
			Univ. of Pennsylvania
			Philadelphia, PA

Featuring Keynote Speakers.............................

Orville & Gary Redenbacher	& 	Jim Koch
Founder & Grandson			President
Orville Redenbacher Popcorn		Boston Beer Company
					Samuel Adams Beer

along with 15 other top entrepreneurs from around the country!!!!

The Mid-Atlantic Conference is intended for the innovative individual who
strives to achieve his/her goals.  Last year more than 200 students and
business people from several states and universities gathered to learn from the
experiences of successful entrepreneurs.  If you want more than you can get
from reading books, talking on networks, or going to class, the Mid-Atlantic
Conference is for you.  17 top entrepreneurs will speak on topics that pertain
directly to your business - from critical early stages of growth to national
and international expansion.  Whether an undergraduate or graduate college
student, business owner, or entrepreneur, this conference could be one of the
smartest business moves you make.  Make contacts, Network with the best and
brightest, and STRIVE FOR SUCCESS!!!!!

The following seminars will be offered this year:

Starting the Right Business		Franchising 101: A Crash Course
Getting your Foot in the Door		Advertising for Results: Choosing
	for New Business			the Right Medium
Hiring and Managing your Team		Raising Venture Capital
MArketing in the '90s			Negotiating to Win
The Tax Advantaged Entrepreneur		Acquiring a Small Business
New Opportunities in Int'l Trade	Going Global
Keeping One Step ahead of the 		Identifying, Managing, and Preparing
	Competition				for Growth
Managing your Finances

The full day conference starts at 9:00am and ends at 4:45 pm with registration
from 8:00am until 9:00am.  The event includes continental breakfast, buffet
lunch, and all conference materials.  Conference Registration is $75.00 ($60.00
early bird before November 7, 1992) Full-time student registration is $25.00
with valid photocopy of student identification.  To receive a brochure(s) or if
you have any questions, reply via vax or telephone (215) 573-7917, Howard
Greenspan, or (215) 386-6129, Paul Horrock, Conference Directors.

Student leaders, Club Presidents, and College Professors:  If you would like
your group, class, or organization to take part in this exciting event, please
contact us and we can send out multiple brochures and information packets. 
Requests can be made by phone, vax, or through the mail at
			Mid-Atlantic Conference
			Snider Entrepreneurial Center
			4th Floor - Vance Hall
			3733 Spruce Street
			Philadelphia,  PA  19104


Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: walters@pa.dec.com (Lisa Doerfler)
Subject: wholesale/retail taxes
Keywords: tax
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 18:08:46 GMT

	Can anyone tell me how to charge tax on an item
	that is made up of different parts, some of which
	were purchased wholesale and some retail?

	Do you charge tax on the whole thing, even though
	you've already paid tax on the retail portion?

	Thanks very much,

	Lisa Walters

Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: dpifko@jacobi.UVic.CA (Daniel  Pifko)
Subject: Re: TAIWAN CONTACTS
Reply-To: dpifko@jacobi.UVic.CA
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 20:36:45 GMT

In article uupcb@u2u.lonestar.org, gary.maddox@u2u.lonestar.org (Gary Maddox)  writes:
>Can anyone suggest how I can contact computer interface card
>manufacturer's in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc... ?
>I am currently marketing some OEM software. I have what they need, how
>do I contact them?
>Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>Gary
>                                                                                                                              

Try contacting the respective Trade Development Offices for each country.  You can 
probably reach them either directly (by 800 number) or via the embassies.  I 
obtained a copy of two Singapore directories when I was interested in importing
microcomputers.  The listings were divided up by company type and product type, and
had a short description of the company, its products, and a contact person. 

Good luck, 

Daniel Pifko
dpifko@sirius.uvic.ca
From: blair@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Gary Blair)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: Financing it yourself
Date: 29 Sep 92 16:28:07 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

I thought about carrying the loan on an vehicle I was trying to sell,
once.  I casually mentioned it to an in-law was is an attorney.  She
indicated this might be very risky from a liability standpoint, what
with all the deep-pocket laws.  The buyer gets wasted, has a head-on
collision and wipes out a family.  Are you responsible for putting a
drunk driver behind the wheel?  I personally think this is assinine,
but our judicial system is such a mess that the thought of it
scared me out of the idea.


-- 
     Gary J. Blair   (510) 422-6675        blair@dancer.llnl.gov
     Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory        
     P.O. Box 808, L-156
     Livermore, CA 94550                  
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: rnewman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rick Newman)
Subject: Market Research
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 14:43:44 GMT


I am currently investigating a replacement-window business in the 
Chicago area and am in need of some market info, ie. who replaces their
windows, why?, when?, how many replacement windows are installed per 
year, by whom, who sells the windows & by what method.  I realize this
may not be the proper forum for this question, but can't find another more
suitable.  So ... does anyone know where I might find the answers to these
and many other such questions ... OR ... if not, where should I post
this question?

Any help would be appreciated.  Please e-mail if possible to:
          rnewman@nyx.cs.du.edu

THANKS!!


Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: ogden_jon@macmail1.rtsg.mot.com
Subject: Re: Loss of the American/New Zealand/whatever dream
Organization: CSG Group
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:58:42 GMT


>>In the year 1900 about 90% of the population owned their own business, the
>>other 10% worked for someone else or for the Government.
>>
>>In 1990 about 10% own their own company, about 90% work for others and the
>>Government.
>>
>>(A statistic I picked up a couple of months ago).
>>
>>Why is this?  What has hapened to the American/Australian/New Zealand dream?
>>Why is it that so few people start their own business and so many of those
that
>>do fail?
>>
>>Here in New Zealand about 80% of businesses fail within the 1st year.  About
>>80% of the other 20% fail in the next five years?  I think this is terrible. 

>>Why is this happening?
>>
>>Any thoughts anyone?

>IMHO, business failures have to do with lack of capitalization,
>lack of long-term planning, and lack of management expertise,
>not necessarily in that order.
>

Businesses do fail for mainly lack of capitalization.  But the reason that more
people do not own businesses is that many are too comfortable in their good ol'
corporate jobs.  You see we have been taught a philosophy which is totally
wrong IMHO.  We are taught that if you pay your dues to the corporation or
government then they will take care of you.  We have been taught that someone
else is better at looking after our interests that ourselves.  Folks it's time
to wake up!  There is NO security in corporate America, Australia, New Zeland
of wherever!  The government is NOT capable of taking care of us (i.e. health
care, schooling regulations, etc.) as some would have us think.  Just look at
the wonderful job it's done so far.

We have to change our philosophy.  The dream will never come to pass as long as
we think someone else will provide it.  Their dream is not the same as ours. 
Only we ourselves can bring our own personal dreams to pass.  Many are
beginning to realize this as the trend is toward owning your own business. 
Unfortunately, however, many still do not.

Jon
From: greenspan05@wharton.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Wharton Entrepreneurs Conference
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:37:14 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


	The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
			Proudly Presents

The 6th Annual  Mid-Atlantic Conference on Entrepreneurship

			November 14, 1992
			Univ. of Pennsylvania
			Philadelphia, PA

Featuring Keynote Speakers.............................

Orville & Gary Redenbacher	& 	Jim Koch
Founder & Grandson			President
Orville Redenbacher Popcorn		Boston Beer Company
					Samuel Adams Beer

along with 15 other top entrepreneurs from around the country!!!!

The Mid-Atlantic Conference is intended for the innovative individual who
strives to achieve his/her goals.  Last year more than 200 students and
business people from several states and universities gathered to learn from the
experiences of successful entrepreneurs.  If you want more than you can get
from reading books, talking on networks, or going to class, the Mid-Atlantic
Conference is for you.  17 top entrepreneurs will speak on topics that pertain
directly to your business - from critical early stages of growth to national
and international expansion.  Whether an undergraduate or graduate college
student, business owner, or entrepreneur, this conference could be one of the
smartest business moves you make.  Make contacts, Network with the best and
brightest, and STRIVE FOR SUCCESS!!!!!

The following seminars will be offered this year:

Starting the Right Business		Franchising 101: A Crash Course
Getting your Foot in the Door		Advertising for Results: Choosing
	for New Business			the Right Medium
Hiring and Managing your Team		Raising Venture Capital
MArketing in the '90s			Negotiating to Win
The Tax Advantaged Entrepreneur		Acquiring a Small Business
New Opportunities in Int'l Trade	Going Global
Keeping One Step ahead of the 		Identifying, Managing, and Preparing
	Competition				for Growth
Managing your Finances

The full day conference starts at 9:00am and ends at 4:45 pm with registration
from 8:00am until 9:00am.  The event includes continental breakfast, buffet
lunch, and all conference materials.  Conference Registration is $75.00 ($60.00
early bird before November 7, 1992) Full-time student registration is $25.00
with valid photocopy of student identification.  To receive a brochure(s) or if
you have any questions, reply via vax or telephone (215) 573-7917, Howard
Greenspan, or (215) 386-6129, Paul Horrock, Conference Directors.

Student leaders, Club Presidents, and College Professors:  If you would like
your group, class, or organization to take part in this exciting event, please
contact us and we can send out multiple brochures and information packets. 
Requests can be made by phone, vax, or through the mail at
			Mid-Atlantic Conference
			Snider Entrepreneurial Center
			4th Floor - Vance Hall
			3733 Spruce Street
			Philadelphia,  PA  19104
From: jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (james.w.lacey)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: Loss of the American/New Zealand/whatever dream
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:49:23 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Oct6.161252.11250@waikato.ac.nz> cdb@waikato.ac.nz (Craig D. Beere) writes:
>In the year 1900 about 90% of the population owned their own business, the
>other 10% worked for someone else or for the Government.
>
>In 1990 about 10% own their own company, about 90% work for others and the
>Government.
>
>(A statistic I picked up a couple of months ago).
>
>Why is this?  What has hapened to the American/Australian/New Zealand dream?
>Why is it that so few people start their own business and so many of those that
>do fail?
>
>Here in New Zealand about 80% of businesses fail within the 1st year.  About
>80% of the other 20% fail in the next five years?  I think this is terrible.  
>Why is this happening?
>
>Any thoughts anyone?

The following apply to the USA:

In 1900, 50% of the people were farmers, mostly self-employed.
In 1992, only 3% of people are farmers, some of these involved
in agri-business/large farms.  This accounts for most of the
change in proportion, but certainly not all.

In 1900, there were more opportunities for small scale craft
and light manufacturing that have been replaced by large scale
industry.  For example, tailors and dressmakers have been replaced
by factory made clothing companies.

From casual reading, it seems that business failures in the 1990s 
are not much greater than business failure in the 1900s and earlier.  
Many of the early textile mills in Lowell (for example) changed hands
every few years as one firm went bankrupt and was replaced by another.

IMHO, business failures have to do with lack of capitalization,
lack of long-term planning, and lack of management expertise,
not necessarily in that order.




-- 
     Jim Lacey  --  my own opinions    
     email:  att!cbnewsl!jlacey  or  jlacey@cbnewsl.cb.att.com
     D'ou venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?
From: aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: Next Questions -- How does one "sell" an idea
Date: 1 Oct 1992 20:03:33 GMT
Organization: Marsnet
NNTP-Posting-Host: cash.ucsc.edu

In article <1992Oct1.185906.29231@PA.dec.com> walters@pa.dec.com (Lisa Doerfler) writes:
>money to go for it, I would in a second.  But I don't have
>the money and this thing should be done now while the idea
>is still original and the market is there...Can I copy
>right my idea for use at a later time when I might be able
>to afford to implement it?  Can I sell the idea to someone?
>How do I find the right person to sell my idea to?

If the idea is good enough you could probely get an investor interested,
that is the catch though.  You have to convienence the investor it is the
right idea, it is doable, it has a market, and your the right person(s) do
take it to market.  That is why you write a business plan for the details on
how you can propelly get very good books from your local library, or the
local college library.
-- 
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: tmjones@eos.ncsu.edu (T.J.)
Subject: Re: Pricing software
Originator: tmjones@c00536-106ps.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: tmjones@eos.ncsu.edu (T.J.)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:01:04 GMT


Here's a question.
I'm a college student who is graduating soon.  I wish to gain some experience
but am not ready for the corporate world, or life long career deal.  So I was 
considering doing contract work (and possibly working on a master's degree on
the slow seasons and night).  How do I find out who needs contract programming
work done?  Are there any agencies that link contractors with companies or 
consultants?  Do they advertise or something.  
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: timk@tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
Subject: Something for the Herrickster (was Re: MAG Ad's)
Organization: TDK Consulting Services
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:47:42 GMT

In article <6ggkRB3w165w@dlhpfm.UUCP> dlhpfm.uucp!dlh@ab.com (daniel lance herrick) writes:
>(Oh, I'd love to work out a test on this news group with two or three
>different headlines and have merchant run the ads in competition with
>each other and report the results back here.)

Then let's do it! 

I recently found myself with an "excess" 386 PC running Xenix which 
I've been using on a small-time basis selling news/mail feeds to 
personal uucp sites (usually PCs of one kind or another) at a fixed 
monthly cost ($7.49/month). For that service they get all the news 
and mail they can download in an hour each day.

One perceived market that this could be marketed to are the local 
University and Community College students who've left school and 
suddenly find themselves without access to news/mail. 

I've gotten other people to try USENET, and once on they're generally 
hooked. The (rather) hard part's convincing them to get on in the first 
place. The big difficulty here is in getting them to get enough of an 
understandind of the tremendous information resource USENET is to want 
to go through the learning curve of navigating such things as Waffle, etc.

I'm also wondering if maybe I'm not charging enough, and what to charge 
for larger feeds that take up more resources to run.

Anyway, since this isn't going to be risking that much $$ or time 
wise, and it's not my main line of business, I'm willing to make 
this a net-guided venture/learning experience. We talk about how to 
do things here in misc.entrep and put the ads together. I'll run 'em, 
and when the numbers come in I'll post them here for all to see. 

So what do you say Dan? Are you up to a little fun and games? :-)

>dan  of dlh Performance Marketing  POBox 1419  Mentor Ohio 44061
>       NCoast.org!dlhpfm!dlh or ab.com!dlhpfm.uucp!dlh   (216)974-9637
>"Even a child is known by his doings, 
> whether his work be pure and whether it be right." Proverbs 20:11

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From: aryeh@cash.ucsc.edu (Aryeh Friedman)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: Nothing to tell???
Date: 2 Oct 92 01:09:46 GMT
Organization: Marsnet
NNTP-Posting-Host: cash.ucsc.edu


The readers of misc.entrepreneurs have come to a general agreement not to
dissicuse MLM.  We have done this for sevral reasons one it tends to break
down into flame wars.
--
From: mike@pacsoft.com (Mike Stefanik)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Re: wholesale/retail taxes
Keywords: tax
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:26:48 GMT
Organization: Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA

In an article, walters@pa.dec.com (Lisa Doerfler) writes:
>Can anyone tell me how to charge tax on an item that is made up of
>different parts, some of which were purchased wholesale and some retail?
>Do you charge tax on the whole thing, even though you've already paid
>tax on the retail portion?

First, you need a reseller permit. What's involved here depends on
your state, but it's all essentially the same thing -- the state allows
you to collect sales tax on what you sell. I'll assume for purposes
of discussion that you already have taken care of this. { Note: 
"wholesale" and "retail" reflects a pricing level (how many hands did
this item pass through), not taxation. }

When it comes time to give unto Caesar what is Caesar's (once a quarter),
it goes like this: Let's say you purchased $100 worth of "raw materials"
to build the end product; and let's say that you have already paid sales
tax on $50 of what you bought. For convenience, let's say that the sales
tax where you will be "delivering" the product is 7%. If you sell the
product for $200, the customer *must pay* pay $14 sales tax. Of that $14,
you have already paid $3.50 of the tax yourself ($50 x .07). This means
that you owe the state $10.50 in sales tax for that item at the end of
the quarter.

Of course, to keep things simple, just don't pay sales tax on anything
that is going to be part of something that you're reselling.

-- 
Mike Stefanik  mike@pacsoft.com  ...!uunet!pacsoft!mike  (714) 681-2623
Pacific Software Group, Riverside, CA
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
From: EMN002@email.mot.com (Mary Beth Northrup)
Subject: How to get to decision-makers?
Organization: Motorola, Inc. Plantation, FL
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:40:37 GMT

I recently invested in a business opportunity: printing personalized
children's books. I'm doing this primarily for fun and profit (and a
tax write-off), since I also have a full-time job (and a husband and
15 mo. son!).

I don't have a lot of time to do direct sales so my marketing
approach is to sell through retail outlets - I provide a display,
the retail store takes orders, I pick up and deliver on a weekly basis. The
store charges a retail price, I charge the store a wholesale price. It's a
win-win situation: the store makes a sale without cash out for stock and
I make a sale with no marketing costs or sales tax headaches.

Here's my problem --
I've been very successful in working with retail stores WHEN I can get to
the owner. This limits me to small businesses since larger chains often have
absentee owners and employees/managers usually don't have the authority to 
make this type of decision. Any suggestions on how to get to decision-makers
for larger stores that have more traffic? (Like Baby Superstore, Toys R Us,
even SAM's or Wal-Mart) Do I even have a shot at getting in the door
at stores like these?

Any advice or words of experience would be appreciated.

Mary Beth Northrup
EMN002@email.mot.com
From: voykhans@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Introduction, do not ignore!
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:03:09 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Hi everybody!
I am new user in your group, but after reading your msg for 3 days I found it very interesting.
I will be happy to answer any questions on doing business in Russia or Poland if any of you happend to have ones.

Thank you.
Grigory "Isaak" Voykhansky Jr.
voykhans@kuhub.ukans.cc.edu
PO Box 1314
Lawrence KS 66044-8314
(913)749-5792
(913)832-2417 Fax
(913)841-1777 Fax (for private msg. only)
From: jorge@nil.mni.mcgill.ca (Jorge Moreno)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Contacting distributers or manufacturers
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:38:43 GMT
Organization: NeuroImaging Laboratory, Montreal Neurological Institute


Hi Guys,

	A year ago, my brother and I started a company which manufactures
decorative glass items. The company is located in Monterrey Mexico. Since its
creation, we have been exporting our products to the US. At the beginning, sales
were not bad, but as the situation of the North American economies got worse, our
sales went bad too.

	Does anybody know where (and how) to advertise the services of our company
so as to find businesses which may be interested in having their products made by
us?  Any ideas are welcome. Thanks in advance.

Jorge.
From: gramsey@atlas.nafb.trw.com
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: home-based computer biz?
Date: 27 Sep 92 19:22:18 PST

hi net people

i'm posting this for a friend without net access please e-mail to my 
account and i will forward to him 

					thanx   greg


i'm interested in starting a home-based computer business, just heard about
Gerhard Reeg company.  They are offering a license that allows me to hook into 
their network of buyers and sellers and i have to culivate my own client base.
Has anyone heard of this company?  Any information and/or additional avenues 
of investigation would be appreciated.

					Thanks Kevin
From: gunner1+@pitt.edu (Jayant Rajgopal)
Newsgroups: misc.entrepreneurs
Subject: Medical Billing Services
Date: 28 Sep 92 14:14:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I'm posting this for someone who does not have access to the net.  
In fact, I'm not even sure if this is the appropriate newsgroup
but it sounds close...

At any rate, does anybody have any experience - good, bad, or
indifferent - with starting and running a mdeical billing service.
From what I understand it inviolves colecting bills from doctors'
offices and electronically sending them to the appropriate agencies
for collection.  If you work in a doctor's office or have any info
regarding this service and/or its viability, please send me info so
that I can pass it on.  BTW, I'd prefer e-mail since I don't normally
read this group; if there's interest I'd be happy to summarize all
responses and post them here.

Thanks
--jr--