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Old 10-30-2013, 07:15 PM  
Minte
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Originally Posted by Minte View Post

Trust me when I tell you... I will forget.

So you didn't take over your daddy's business, the two of you "built it together". That's ten time worse than your father giving it to you.

Your father, a man twice as old as you, with twice as much business experience, and the ability to raise one hundred times more capital... Helped you. If you did this on your own at age twenty-three you would have failed. Without your father you would have had nothing at all.

If my daddy came to me twenty or thirty years ago and said "Let's a build a business" and I got to use his line of credit (that is a lot more than a broke twenty-five year old has access to) I too would have a business would be building a fountain in front of my huge office building too.

(You know I love giving you a hard time. Email me already so we can talk off of GFY. I don't have any contact information for you.)
If only it had been that easy. He had a fulltime job and worked in the shop in the evenings while I worked during the day and most weekends. We started in the garage. That huge line of credit was a 3k loan from his aunt to purchase a bandsaw, a used mill, lathe and a drill press.

mint at jefnet. com
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