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One of the things I get the most pleasure from is the starting of new companies,
growing them to an operating size and then, either turning them over to staff to
run or selling them to someone who would like to operate a "going concern."
If you were to look at my report cards from the early years, starting about
grade three. You would find teachers comments routinely saying things like "If Peter
would spend more time on his school work, and less time designing companies, he
would be successful."
I remember my grade 7 or grade 8 teacher taking and showing me a picture of a mouse
trying to each a big piece of chocolate cake. She proceeded to try to "teach" me
to not take on things that were too big. While I know that was her attempt, I looked
at that mouse and thought - "That mouse is going to eat more chocolate cake than
any other mouse. That mouse will eat as much chocolate cake as it possibly can.
I want to be that mouse. I want to live that way." That teacher probably did more
for me than anyone else up to University in encouraging me to think big grandiose
ideas - and then going and doing them!
I was loaned $2,000 when I first got into business from a relative, on the condition
that - when I missed my first payment, I had to stop trying to be an entrepreneur,
and "get a real job". I of course never missed a payment and I never went and got
a "real job" by that definition and I consider the job of starting companies to be a real job.
Now, you can look at what I'm doing, what I've achieved. I'm no Bill Gates. He is
just a little older than me, and I admit, at any point in my business career, Bill,
with all his diverse companies (Including Microsoft which is is stepping down from
in June 2008), has done far more than I have and has, in any measurable financial
and business ways that I know of, done
far better than I have. But I am mostly pleased with what I have achieved and how
I have achieved it. I am pleased with my levels of success and, while I always would
like to have done better, and while as I get older, most of the time I do better. So
overall,
I am pleased.
But, if you want to be a business partner with me, invest in me, buy from me or
sell to me, then you can check out more about what I have done and am doing and
decide for yourself.
I always have ideas for those that want to get involved with me as a partner. As
I get older, the scale needs to be bigger to interest me. From time to time I have projects that may be of interest for people looking to invest $50,000 or more. And
very rarely, $10,000 or more. If you want to be informed of possible options, let me know what types of projects and involvement would be of interest and I'll let you know if I have any currently or let you know (no obligation) when appropriate ones come up.
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